This volume explores how linguistic theories inform the ways in which languages are described. Theories, as representations of linguistic categories, guide the

The papers in this volume were presented at the 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics at UC Berkeley in 2016. The papers offer new descriptions of Afric

Learning language and using language to learn is at the core of any educational activity. Bringing together a globally representative team of experts, this volu

This grammar provides a grammatical description of Palula, an Indo-Aryan language of the Shina group. The language is spoken by about 10,000 people in the Chitr

Neo-Firthian theories - which include Systemic Functional Linguistics and its congeners - have, unlike other functionally oriented theories, engaged minimally w