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Publications in Linguistics, is a venue for works covering a broad range of topics in linguistics, especially the analytical treatment of minority languages from all parts of the world. While most volumes are authored by members of SIL International, suitable works by others also occasionally form part of the series. From 1976 to 2010, Publications in Linguistics was published jointly by SIL International and the University of Texas at Arlington.
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Presents comprehensive overview of Desano (southeast Colombia and Brazil) grammar, from phonetic to discourse features.
Describes comprehensively and systematically the function of tense and aspect in the Obolo language (southeastern coastal Nigeria).
An unusually clear, simple guide for sentence analysis which lends itself well to displaying the way syntactic features are associated with semantic structures.
Presents studies of Dong (2.5 million in southwestern China) history, culture, tonal language, grammar, phonology, lexicon and orthography.
Presents a summary of classifiers and their function in languages of the world and is perhaps the first discourse study of Vietnamese classifiers.
Presents a generative and autosegmental phonological analysis of the Zaiwa language with emphasis on prosodic components.
Defines the linguistic range of an immense, interrelated and varied area extending from eastern India to southern China, including the southeast Asian peninsula.
Utilizes principles of discourse analysis, cultural anthropology and biblical studies to analyze First Corinthians.
Analyzes the stress, phonology, aand morphology system of Mamaindé. Uses metrical and lexical phonology. The Mamainde, a language of Brazil is also known as Northern Nambikuára (Ethnologue, 15th Ed.2005)
Presents five articles about the features of Doyayo: phonology, indicative verb structure, tone patterns of nominals, major syntactic structures and folk tales.
