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SIL International Publications in Linguistics

Aspects of the Morphology and Phonology of Konni by Michael C Cahill, PL 141, 2007, 537 pp., ISBN 978-1-55671-184-8 $50.00

This study combines a descriptive and theoretical presentation of Kɔnni, a Gur language of northern Ghana. It presents an Optimality Theory analysis of the entire phonological system.

Aspects of Western Subanon Formal Speech by William C. Hall, PL 81, 1988, 207 pp., ISBN 978-0-88312-093-4, $21.00

Describes the speech behavior of the Western Subanon people (southwestern Mindanao, Philippines) in formal situations such as ceremonies or litigation.

Aspects of Zaiwa Prosody: An Autosegmental Account by Mark W. Wannemacher, PL 129,1998, 168 pp., ISBN 978-1-55671-054-4, $30.50

Presents a generative and autosegmental phonological analysis of the Zaiwa language with emphasis on prosodic components.

An Autosegmental Approach to Shilluk Phonology by Leoma G. Gilley, PL 103, 1992, 224 pp., ISBN 978-0-88312-106-1, $18.00

Analyzes Shilluk (Western Nilotic, southern Sudan) using an autosegmental approach based on lexical phonology.

Beyond the Bilingual Classroom: Literacy Acquisition among Peruvian Amazon Communities by Barbara Trudell, PL 172, 1993, 176 pp., ISBN 978-0-88312-615-8, $19.00

Presents factors that affect literacy acquisition in both the mother tongue and Spanish by the indigenous people of the Peruvian Amazon.

Case and Agreement in Abaza by Brian O'Herin, PL 138, 2002, 304 pp., ISBN 978-1-55671-135-0, $30.50

Provides descriptive coverage and a unified analysis of agreement system of Abaza grammar, a little-documented Northwest Caucasian language exhibiting an extensive agreement system.

Case Grammar Applied by Walter A. Cook, PL 127, 1998, 290 pp., ISBN 978-1-55671-046-9, $30.50

An unusually clear, simple guide for sentence analysis which lends itself well to displaying the way syntactic features are associated with semantic structures.

Comanche Dictionary and Grammar by James Armagost; Lila W. Robinson, PL 92, 1990, 356 pp., ISBN 978-0-88312-715-5, $29.50

Presents the Comanche-English dictionary with illustrative sentences, brief grammar, photographs and original art.

Comanche Dictionary and Grammar, Second Edition by James Armagost; Lila W. Robinson, PL 92, 2012, 418 pp., ISBN 978-1-55671-330-9 $38.95

Presents the Comanche-English dictionary with illustrative sentences, brief grammar, photographs and original art.

Comparative Kadai: Linguistic Studies Beyond Tai edited by David B. Solnit; Jerold A. Edmondson, PL 86, 1989, 382 pp., ISBN 978-0-88312-066-8, $26.50

Contains thirteen papers on these Kadai languages: Kam, Sui, Maonan, Mulam, Mak, Then, Ai-Cham, Be, Hlai (Li) and Lakkia.

Comparative Kadai: The Tai Branch edited by David B. Solnit; Jerold A. Edmondson, PL 124, 1997, 388 pp., ISBN 978-1-55671-005-6, $36.50

Defines the linguistic range of an immense, interrelated and varied area extending from eastern India to southern China, including the southeast Asian peninsula.

Cubeo Grammar: Studies in the Languages of Colombia 5 by Nancy Morse and Michael Maxwell, PL 130, 1999, 212 pp., ISBN 978-1-55671-044-5, $30.50

Gives an overview of Cubeo phonology, morphophonemics, word classes, clause structure and subordination. Examples are included.

Current Trends and Issues in Hispanic Linguistics edited by Lenard Struderus, PL 80, 1987, 132 pp., ISBN 978-0-88312-012-5, $12.00

A sampling of some of the diverse studies recently carried out by investigators with varying divergent yet partially overlapping interests in the Spanish language.

Desano Grammar: Studies in the Languages of Colombia 6 by Marion Miller, PL 132, 1999, 190 pp., ISBN 978-1-55671-076-6, $26.50

Presents comprehensive overview of Desano (southeast Colombia and Brazil) grammar, from phonetic to discourse features.

A Discourse Analysis of First Corinthians by Ralph Bruce Terry, PL 120, 1995, 208 pp., ISBN 978-0-88312-707-0, $26.95

Utilizes principles of discourse analysis, cultural anthropology and biblical studies to analyze First Corinthians.

Discourse Features of Ten Languages of West-Central Africa edited by Stephen H. Levinsohn, PL 119, 1995, 251 pp., ISBN 978-0-88312-619-6, $31.50

Presents 12 papers on coherence, participant reference and Relevance Theory in Niger-Congo and Chadic languages of Cameroon.

The Dong Language in Guizhou Province, China by Guoqiao Zheng;Yaohong Long; translated by D. Norman Geary, PL 126, 1998, 284 pp., ISBN 978-1-55671-051-3, $30.50

Presents studies of Dong (2.5 million in southwestern China) history, culture, tonal language, grammar, phonology, lexicon and orthography.

The Doyayo Language: Selected Studies by Marinus Wiering; Elisabeth Wiering, PL 121, 1994, 309 pp., ISBN 978-0-88312-620-2, $29.00

Presents five articles about the features of Doyayo: phonology, indicative verb structure, tone patterns of nominals, major syntactic structures and folk tales.

The French Imparfait and Passé Simple in Discourse by Sharon R. Rand, PL 116, 1993, 148 pp., ISBN 978-0-88312-822-0, $16.00

Presents the results of the author's analysis of the use of the imparfait and passé simple tenses in French narrative discourse.

The Function of Verb Prefixes in Southwestern Otomí by Henrietta Andrews, PL 115, 1993, 115 pp., ISBN 978-0-88312-605-9, $10.50

Discusses how Otomí verb prefixes include deixis in their function.

A Grammar of Akoose: A Northwest Bantu Language by Robert Hedinger, PL 143, 2008, 318 pp., ISBN 978-1-55671-222-7, $38.00

The purpose of this book is to describe the grammatical structure of Akoose, also known as Bakossi, one of the north-western most narrow-Bantu languages of Cameroon.

A Grammar of Bora with Special Attention to Tone by Wesley Thiesen and David Weber, PL 148, 2012, 584 pp., ISBN 978-1-55671-301-9 $64.95

This is the first comprehensive linguistic study of Bora, a typologically unusual language spoken in Colombia and Peru, the result of four decades of work among the Bora people.

A Grammar of Sochiapan Chinantec: Studies in Chinantec Language 6 by David P. Foris; 2000, PL 135, 421 pp., ISBN 978-1-55671-052-0, $30.50

Describes everything from Chinantec phonemes up through phrases and clauses to compound sentences; from changes of tone and stress to changes in nucleus to signal a wide variety of tense, aspect and related features.

Hixkaryana and Linguistic Typology by Desmond C. Derbyshire, PL 76, 1985, 281 pp., ISBN 978-0-88312-082-8, $25.00

Presents a grammatical sketch of Hixkaryana (Carib language family of northern Brazil) and suggests its place in syntactic typology.

Ika Syntax: Studies in the Languages of Colombia 1 by Paul Frank, PL 94, 1990, 154 pp., ISBN 978-0-88312-801-5, $12.00

Presents Ika grammar from a typological and functional perspective, which provides a good framework for writing broadly useful, descriptive grammars.

The Kifuliiru Language, Two Volume Set, by Karen Van Otterloo and Roger Van Otterloo, PL 146 and 147, 1132 pp., ISBN 978-1-55671-279-1, $99.00

Includes
Volume 1: Phonology, Tone, and Morphological Derivation
Volume 2: A Descriptive Grammar

The Kifuliiru Language, Volume 1: Phonology, Tone, and Morphological Derivation, by Karen Van Otterloo, PL 146, 2011, 516 pp., ISBN 978-1-55671-261-6, $52.99

This volume on Kifuliiru, a Bantu (J) language of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and its companion volume, The Kifuliiru Language: Volume 2: A Descriptive Grammar, is one of the most thorough and yet readable Bantu grammars available.

The Kifuliiru Language, Volume 2: A Descriptive Grammar, by Roger Van Otterloo, PL 147, 2011, 616 pp., ISBN 978-1-55671-270-8, $59.99

This groundbreaking study addresses all grammatical levels of Kifuliiru, a Bantu (J) language of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Together with its companion volume, this set comprises one of the most thorough Bantu grammars available.

Language and Life: Essays in Memory of Kenneth L. Pike, Edited by Wise, Headland, & Brend, PL 139, 2003, 674 pp., ISBN 978-1-55671-140-4, $40.00

The contributors to this volume are just a few of the thousands of scholars whose work was influenced by Kenneth Pike's teaching and writing. Essays in this volume include papers by authors from at least ten countries and six disciplines.

Language Death in Mesmes: a Sociolinguistic and Historical-Comparative Examination of a Disappearing Ethiopian-Semitic Language by Michael B Ahland, PL 145, 2010, 155 pp., ISBN 978-1-55671-227-2, $25.00

Presents an historical examination of sound change and other developments in the very-nearly extinct Gurage language known as Mesmes while also considering the linguistic and social environments in which the language has been lost.

Mamaindé Stress: The Need for Strata by David Eberhard, PL 122, 1995, 169 pp., ISBN 978-1-55671-003-2, $26.50

Analyzes the stress, phonology, aand morphology system of Mamaindé. Uses metrical and lexical phonology.
The Mamainde, a language of Brazil is also known as Northern Nambikuára (Ethnologue, 15th Ed.2005)

Modes in Dényá Discourse by Samson N. Abangma, PL 79, 1987, 139 pp., ISBN 978-0-88312-007-1, $23.00

This study shows how discourse structure influences the use of verb forms. It looks at modes in narrative, procedural, expository, and hortatory discourse. The study includes five texts.

Phonological Studies in Four Languages of Maluku edited by Wyn D. Laidig; Donald A. Burquest, PL 108, 1992, 235 pp., ISBN 978-0-88312-803-9, $18.00

Describes the phonologies of Sawai, Kisar, Larike and West Tarangan (Indonesia).

The Phonology of Mono by Kenneth Olson, PL 140, 2005, 311 pp., ISBN 978-1-55671-160-2, $29.00

This describes the sound system of Mono, a Banda language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The Phonology of Two Central Chadic Languages, by Tony Smith and Richard Gravina, PL 144, 2010, 267 pp., ISBN 978-1-55671-231-9 $32.00

The Muyang and Mbuko phonologies present typologically unusual data, the bulk of which is found in the vowel systems. The works in this volume are the result of years of intensive contact with the speakers of Muyang and Mbuko by the authors.

A Pragmatic Analysis of Norwegian Modal Particles by Erik E. Andvik, PL 113, 1992, 152 pp., ISBN 978-0-88312-188-7, $11.50

Studies a small class of uninflectable lexical items (particularly jo and na).

Pragmatics of Persuasive Discourse in Spanish Television Advertising by Karol J. Hardin, PL 137, 2001, 247 pp., ISBN 978-1-55671-150-3, $30.50

This investigation analyzes pragmatic ways in which Spanish is used to achieve persuasion in television advertising and contributes to the cross-linguistic understanding of pragmatics and persuasion in Spanish.

Proto Witotoan by Richard P. Aschmann, PL 114, 1993, 167 pp., ISBN 978-0-88312-189-4, $18.00

Reconstructs the protolanguage of six languages found in the Amazonian areas of Peru, Colombia and Brazil.

Quiegolani Zapotec Syntax: A Principles and Parameters Account by Cheryl A. Black, 2000, PL 136, 365 pp., ISBN 978-1-55671-099-5, $30.50

A careful syntactic analysis of Quiegolani Zapotec Syntax, presented descriptively and with a theoretical analysis.

A Reference Grammar of the Northern Embera Languages by Charles A. Mortensen, 1999, PL 134, 211 pp., ISBN 978-1-55671-081-0, $30.50

Compares and contrasts Emberá-Katío and Northern Emberá (Colombia) proper with each other and with other languages of the Emberá branch of the Chocó family.

Retuara Syntax: Studies in the Languages of Colombia 3 by Clayton L. Strom, PL 112, 1992, 241 pp., ISBN 978-0-88312-181-8, $19.00

Describes the grammar of the central Tucanoan language spoken by the Retuarã and Tanimuca people of southeastern Colombia.

Sentence Repetition Testing for Studies of Community Bilingualism by Carla F. Radloff, PL 104, 1991, 210 pp., ISBN 978-0-88312-667-7, $16.00

Discusses the use of sentence repetition testing in predicting second-language proficiency.

The Structure of Evidential Categories in Wanka Quechua by Rick Floyd, PL 131, 1999, 216 pp., ISBN 978-1-55671-066-7, $30.50

Provides a detailed look at the semantics of the evidential system of one Quechua language with implications for others.

Survey on a Shoestring: A Manual for Small-Scale Language Survey by Frank Blair, PL 96, 1990, 147 pp., ISBN 978-0-88312-644-8, $12.00

Shows how to conduct sociolinguistic surveys on a small scale without access to funding sometimes available to national language planners.

Switch Reference in Koasati Discourse by David P. Rising, PL 109, 1992, 98 pp., ISBN 978-0-88312-813-8, $10.00

Contains a brief sociolinguistic note, a phonological description and a grammar outline of Koasati (Muskogean, TX).

Syntactic Change and Syntactic Reconstruction: A Tagmemic Approach by John R. Costello, PL 68, 1983, 107 pp., ISBN 978-0-88312-092-7, $11.00

Shows how to reconstruct syntactic constructions, their constituents and the functions of these constituents for a protolanguage by applying certain procedures of internal and comparative reconstruction to data from other languages concerned.

Tense and Aspect in Obolo Grammar and Discourse by Uche Aaron, PL 128, 1999, 198 pp., ISBN 978-1-55671-063-6, $30.50

Describes comprehensively and systematically the function of tense and aspect in the Obolo language (southeastern coastal Nigeria).

The Verbal Piece in Ebira by John R. Adive, PL 85, 1989, 176 pp., ISBN 978-0-88312-037-8, $14.00

Describes the verbal piece of Ebira (a Nigerian language), the most complex unit in the language from the mother tongue speaker's point of view.

Vietnamese Classifiers in Narrative Texts by Karen A. Daley, PL 125, 1998, 221 pp., ISBN 978-1-55671-021-6, $30.50

Presents a summary of classifiers and their function in languages of the world and is perhaps the first discourse study of Vietnamese classifiers.

Word Order in Toposa: An Aspect of Multiple Feature-Checking by Helga Schröder, PL 142, 2008, 213 pp., ISBN 978-1-55671-181-7, $28.00

This study of Toposa, an Eastern Nilotic language spoken in Southern Sudan, is both data oriented and theoretical. It is valuable for upper level students of syntactic theory. It should also help further study of VSO languages and discourse research.