Originally presented as the author's thesis (University of Pennsylvania, 1983) under title: Some ...

Ika is a Chibchan language spoken by some 7,000 persons in northeastern Colombia. This grammar wa...

Describes Filipino lifestyles and value systems from an anthropological perspective. Shows points...

Language does not consist solely of isolated words or sentences. Many sentences are connected tog...

Provides guidance in the practical aspects of fieldwork and gives suggestions for collecting both...

Each volume in the Exegetical Summaries series works through the original text phrase by phrase. ...

Each volume in the Exegetical Summaries series works through the original text phrase by phrase. ...

Effective orthographies which represent speech maximally yet efficiently are pivotal in giving li...

Presents studies focusing on world view and cultural change from five Amazonian communities. Docu...

The books in this series are analytical commentaries on the Greek text of New Testament books. Ea...

Widespread multilingualism in Papua New Guinea provides an ideal situation for analyzing the dyna...

Each volume in the Exegetical Summaries series works through the original text phrase by phrase. ...

Language spread, or expansion into new geographic and language-use areas, has been studied largel...

David Foris gathered the data for this volume during the sixteen years he lived in the northwest ...

The Peruvian Ministry of Education initiated bilingual schools in Amazonia soon after the Machigu...

Each volume in the Exegetical Summaries series works through the original text phrase by phrase. ...

Rather than applying a rigid theory or surveying a variety of approaches, Analyzing Discourse pro...

Abaza, a little-documented Northwest Caucasian language, exhibits an extensive agreement system. ...

A sampling of some of the diverse studies recently carried out by investigators with varying dive...

Reconstructs the protolanguage of six languages found in the Mexico. The book has two major secti...

Cheyenne narratives exhibit all possible orders for the three major constituents of subject, obje...

This work was the authors' response to a need they saw for methodology in field research. They gi...

This book utilizes principles of discourse analysis, cultural anthropology, and biblical studies ...

This book is a collection of dramatic life-stories from the viewpoint of a Guambiano master story...

The reader of Quiegolani Zapotec Syntax will find a careful syntactic analysis of this language, ...

The Cubeo people live principally along the Vaupés, Cuduyarí, and Querarí Rivers in the northwest...

Compares and contrasts Embera-Katio and Northern Embera (Colombia) proper with each other and wit...

The purpose of this textbook is to introduce Bible students and translators to the basic composit...

Each volume in the Exegetical Summaries series works through the original text phrase by phrase. ...

The books in this series are analytical commentaries on the Greek text of New Testament books. Ea...

This book is the first in over thirty-five years on the early history of Andover, Massachusetts, ...

This book provides a practical and easy-to-understand introduction to acoustic speech analysis, p...

Each volume in the Exegetical Summaries series works through the original text phrase by phrase. ...

A milestone in Sinama research has been reached with the publication of the Central Sinama-Englis...

Twenty-two papers selected from a 1993 Seminar in Dallas, attended by a combination of profession...

Can a culture have a theme that unifies seemingly unrelated practices? In this volume, Collins su...

Gives a grammatical sketch of Zapotec (Mitla Vallay, Oaxaca, Mexico). This third volume in the se...

The study of language can be compared to an explorer mapping out new territory or a miner working...

The author presents a comprehensive look at language use and attitudes among the Kiche people of ...

The books in this series are analytical commentaries on the Greek text of New Testament books. Ea...

Each volume in the Exegetical Summaries series works through the original text phrase by phrase. ...

Each volume in the Exegetical Summaries series works through the original text phrase by phrase. ...

Shilluk is a Western Nilotic language spoken in southern Sudan. In this study, by using an autose...

Three of the fall 1982 Linguistics Forum lectures, which were sponsored by the Department of Fore...

Karen Daley leads the reader into what is perhaps the first discourse study of Vietnamese classif...

The books in this series are analytical commentaries on the Greek text of New Testament books. Ea...

Contains a selection of folktales collected in Vietnam from 1960 to 1975.