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A Grammar of Kham
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WATTERS, David E.

First published in 2002, this is a comprehensive grammatical documentation of Kham, a previously undescribed language from west-central Nepal, belonging to the Tibeto-Burman language family. The language contains a number of grammatical systems that are of immediate relevance to current work on linguistic theory, including split ergativity, a mirative system, and a rich class of derived adjecti…

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Cambridge Grammatical Descriptions
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A Grammar of Semelai
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KRUSPE, Nicole

Semelai is a previously undescribed and endangered Aslian (Mon-Khmer) language of the Malay Peninsula. This book - the first in-depth description of an Aslian language - provides a comprehensive reference grammar of Semelai. Semelai intertwines two types of morphological system: a concatenative system of prefixes, suffixes and a circumfix - acquired through extended contact with Malay - and a n…

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9780511550713
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World Literatures Exploring the Cosmopolitan-Vernacular Exchange
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STEFAN, HelgessonANNIKA, Mörte AllingYVONNE, LindqvistHELENA, Wulff

"Placing itself within the burgeoning field of world literary studies, the organising principle of this book is that of an open-ended dynamic, namely the cosmopolitan-vernacular exchange. As an adaptable comparative fulcrum for literary studies, the notion of the cosmopolitan-vernacular exchange accommodates also highly localised literatures. In this way, it redresses what has repeatedly been i…

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A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia
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AIKHHENVALD,Alexandra Y.

This is a comprehensive reference grammar of Tariana, an endangered Arawak language from a remote region in the northwest Amazonian jungle. Its speakers traditionally marry someone speaking a different language, and as a result most people are fluent in five or six languages. Because of this rampant multilingualism, Tariana combines a number of features inherited from the protolanguage with pro…

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9781107050952
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A Feminine Enlightenment British Women Writers and the Philosophy of Progres…
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DELUCIA,Joellen

Drawing on original archival research, A Feminine Enlightenment argues that women writers shaped Enlightenment conversations regarding the role of sentiment and gender in the civilizing process. By reading women's literature alongside history and philosophy and moving between the eighteenth century and Romantic era, JoEllen DeLucia challenges conventional historical and generic boundaries. Begi…

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9780748695959
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A Divided Poet Robert Frost, North of Boston, and the Drama of Disappearance
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SANDERS,David

Frost's breakthrough book of poetry seen anew as an artistic whole and in the context of the poet's career and development.

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Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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