Catching Language

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

Descriptive grammars are our main vehicle for documenting and analysing the linguistic structure of the world's 6,000 languages. They bring together, in one place, a coherent treatment of how the whole language works, and therefore form the primary source of information on a given language, consulted by a wide range of users: areal specialists, typologists, theoreticians of any part of language (syntax, morphology, phonology, historical linguistics...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110186039
• ISBN13: 9783110186031
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
• Length: 670 Pages
• Weight: 2.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.4" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary