The Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics is a unique reference work for
students and teachers of linguistics. The highly regarded second edition of the Lexikon der …

The three volumes of Language typology and syntactic description offer a unique survey of
syntactic and morphological structure in the languages of the world. Topics covered include …

Cross-linguistic variation in the forms and categories of inflectional morphology is so great
that 'inflection'cannot be defined by simply generalizing over attested inflectional systems or …

This book is concerned with the mapping of thematic roles, such as agent and patient, onto
syntactic cases, such as nominative or ergative, or onto structural relations. It shows that …

This text brings together two significant domains of educational practice: foreign language
education and critical pedagogy--linking them in a way that can help foreign language …

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 is the …

The only textbook of its kind, An Introduction to the Languages of the World is designed to
introduce beginning linguistics students, who now typically start their study with little …

Alignment is standardly illustrated with ergative vs. accusative coding of subjects as in
Basque and Russian. It is the identical versus distinct coding or treatment or behaviour of …

The fact that some languages extensively use suffixes and prefixes to convey grammatical
meaning (eg subject-verb agreement) poses a challenge to most current human language …

This study consisted of three main phases including the development of a hypothesised
model of language identity in Iran, developing and validating a questionnaire based on this …