Turkish, the most prominent of the Turkic languages, is spoken by about 50 million people in Turkey and is the co-official language of Cyprus. Whilst Turkish has a number of properties that are similar to other languages of the same type, it has distinct and interesting characteristics which are covered in this book. Examples are provided for almost every issue addressed. These examples are drawn from different levels of vocabulary, such as contemporary and old, official and colloquial, and are accompanied by a detailed grammatical analysis and English translation.

Hungarian is spoken by 12-14 million people worldwide. A unique language, completely unrelated to the languages of its neighbouring countries, it boasts a grammar full of complex features and a vocabulary deriving largely from Asia.
Hungarian addresses current issues in the description of languages and applies up-to-date research techniques to Hungarian. This is the first comprehensive descriptive grammar of the Hungarian language available in English.

Malayalam is one of the four major Dravidian languages spoken principally in the southern part of India. It has a recorded history of eight centuries and is spoken by more than thirty million people on the Malabar coast of southern India
This is the first detailed description of Malayalam, providing an in-depth analysis of the linguistic richness of this 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 title provides coverage of its linguistic aspects, including the syntax, morphology and phonology.

Tuvaluan is a Polynesian language spoken by the 9000 inhabitants of the nine atolls of Tuvalu in the Central Pacific, as well as small and growing Tuvaluan communities in Fiji, New Zealand, and Australia. This grammar is the first detailed description of the structure of Tuvaluan, one of the least well-documented languages of Polynesia. While the language shares features commonly found amongst Polynesian languages, it exhibits a number of divergent features of interest to scholars of Pacific languages, comparative linguistics, language typology, and language universals. The text explores the...

Evenki is one of nine Tungusic languages spoken in Siberia and Northern China. This volume provides a complete description of the linguistic domain of this language. Evenki is remarkable both for the vast area where it is spoken - from Western Siberia through the Amur region to the shores of the Arctic Ocean to Northern China - and for its number of dialects and sub-dialects. More than two dozen non-finite verb forms are analyzed in detail in sections devoted to subordination, and a variety of postpositions and locative cases fulfilling various adverbial functions are dealt with in relevant...

Among the languages of Europe Catalan has a special status because it enjoys official recognition, along with Spanish, in a number of Spanish-speaking regions. These include Catalonia, Valencia and the Balearic Islands and the principality of Andorra. Also spoken in Roussillon, France, and in the town of Alghero, Sardinia, it therefore has a relatively large number of speakers. Catalan is also of importance within the Romance family of languages, because it constitutes a link between the Ibero-Romance and the Gallo-Romance branches. In its syntax and morphology it presents characteristics...

First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This volume contains writings about John Donne from 1873 to 1923, including those by Henry Morley, Edmund Gosse, W.F. Collier, Rudyard Kipling, Charles Eliot Norton, Henry Augustin Beers, Thomas Hardy, W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and others. Together these works present a record of how, from the 19th century onwards, critics viewed Donne, and how he became part of today's literary canon.

Strong linguistic and ecological pressures are gradually pushing Koromfe, the local language spoken in the north of Burkina Faso, West Africa, towards extinction. Spoken by, at the most, 10,000 people, Koromfe has defied political and cultural domination by other local languages. The information which constitutes this descriptive grammar is based on field work made by the author. As a Gur or Voltic language, the author shows how Koromfe shares many phonological, lexical, morphological and syntactic affinities with other such languages.