This work is the first thorough study of tense, aspect, and modality (TAM) in light of the discou...

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

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

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. ...

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

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. ...

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

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. ...

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

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

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...

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

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

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, ...

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

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

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

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

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. ...

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...

Describes and documents various indigenous house forms in the southern Sudan and northern Kenya a...

This study, by a native speaker of the Dényá language-a language of Cameroon-shows how discourse ...

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

This book describes the nature of communication, the implications it has for the theory of transl...

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

This is a collection of studies of Papua New Guinea cultures, each isolating one key concept that...

The temporal categories of tense and aspect have received much attention in linguistic literature...

This book is designed as a textbook and is intended to present a sample of the more popular appro...