Catching Language: The Standing Challenge of Grammar Writing

by Felix K. Ameka, Nicholas D. Evans, Alan Dench

This is the first book to focus on the problem of writing grammars of little-known languages, a task of major urgency as linguists face the challenge of documenting the many endangered languages around the world. The chapters, all written by distinguished specialists, address the many questions the author of a reference grammar must tackle as they destil the regularities of a whole language into a single integrated volume.

Genres: Linguistics

662 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2006