Books in the Descriptive Grammars series

A complete grammatical description of Punjabi, an Indo-European language spoken in India and Pakistan, as well as in other countries outside Asia (particularly in the United Kingdom and Canada) by approximately 45 million people, either as a first or a second language.

The most thorough description of a creole language to date. It provides detailed coverage of a full range of grammatical, phonological and lexical information, giving a rich picture of the aspects of this radical creole.

This is the first major study of any Chapakuran language, and makes an important contribution to the database of linguistic theory. This study is especially timely as the Chapakuran languages of Western Brazil and Eastern Bolivia are endangered.

This is the first detailed linguistic analysis of Koromfe, the local language spoken in the north of Burkina Faso, West Africa, providing data which sheds light on many previously unanswered questions about Koromfe and general linguistics.

Evenki is one of nine Tungusic languages spoken in Siberia and Northern China. This volume includes sections devoted to subordination, and a variety of postpositions and locative cases fulfilling various adverbial functions are dealt with in relevant sections.

The first detailed description of Malayalam, providing an in-depth analysis of the linguistic richness of this language, spoken by over 35 million people on the Malabar coast of southern India.

Persian, or Farsi, is one of the world's oldest languages. Dating back to the sixth century BC, it is spoken today by over forty million people in Iran and 5 million in Afghanistan. This title provides coverage of its linguistic aspects, including the syntax, morphology and phonology.

In its syntax and morphology Catalan presents characteristics which will be familiar to readers with a knowledge of other Romance languages, especially Spanish. There are areas in which it differs markedly and these are explored in depth.

Explores many interesting details of Finnish syntax, morphology, phonology and lexicon, providing the linguist, for the first time in English, the opportunity for cross-language comparisons and detailed linguistic analysis.

This book provides a comprehensive linguistic description of Maori, the East Polynesian language of the indigenous people of New Zealand. Today the language is under threat and it seems likely that the Maori of the future will differ quite considerably from the Maori of the past.

This book focuses on Standard Maltese and serves to clarify many areas which, until now remain undefined, specifically in the area of syntax and intonation.

This descriptive grammar text provides a perspective of the structure of Rapanui, the language of Easter Island. It covers the syntax, morphology, phonology and lexicon of the language. It also includes 800 illustrative sentences, each with gramatical analysis and translation.

The first comprehensive descriptive grammar of the Hungarian language available in English. It applies up-to-date research techniques to Hungarian whilst also addressing current issues in the description of languages.

This is the first comprehensive grammar of Nigerian Pidgin. This book provides basic descriptive and analytical treatment of the syntax , morphology and phonology of a language which may soon be the most widely spoken in Africa.

The first detailed description of the structure of Tuvaluan, one of the least well-documented languages of Polynesia.