From 1963 to 2011 Pacific Linguistics, located at the Australian National University, published over six hundred books concerned with the languages of the Pacific, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Southeast, South and East Asia. The Mouton Pacific Linguistics series represents a continuation of this publishing venture under the same Editorial Board. The Pacific Linguistics series presents linguistic descriptions, dictionaries, and other materials concerned with languages of this region. The authors and editors of Pacific Linguistics publications are drawn from a wide range of institutions around the world, and its publications are refereed by international scholars with relevant expertise. Pacific Linguistics has built a reputation as the most authoritative publisher of works on the languages of the Pacific and neighbouring areas, read by scholars with an interest in the region as well as by linguists with interests in language typology, sociolinguistics, language contact and the reconstruction of linguistic change and culture history. Pacific Linguistics is proud to act as a vehicle for the dissemination of knowledge about the languages of the Pacific and the Pacific Rim, many of which are little known, and to bring them to the attention of scholars around the world, as well as providing local communities with published language material, at a time when many minority languages are under threat.

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Provides listening, speaking, reading, and writing exercises to develop proficiency in parts of speech, usage, tense, and other basics of English grammar.

A comprehensive Assessment Package has been developed for each level of the third edition of Focus on Grammar. The components of the Assessment Package are: * Placement, diagnostic, and achievement tests * General proficiency tests * Audio CD * Test-Generating Software Focus on Grammar helps students understand and practice English grammar through contextualized listening, speaking, reading, and writing activities. Focus on Grammar combines controlled and communicative practice with critical thinking skills and ongoing assessment.

Never before have all the world's languages been accurately and completely mapped. This unique Atlas depicts the location of every known living language and even includes languages on the point of extinction.Presenting contributions from international scholars, covering over 4,000 languages and containing over 135 full-colour maps, the Atlas of the World's Languages is the definitive reference resource for every linguistic and reference library.The Atlas is divided into 8 sections, each of which has been edited by a leading authority in their field.1) The Americas 2) Australasia and the Pacific 3) East and South-East Asia 4) South Asia 5) North Asia and Eastern Europe 6) Western Europe 7) Middle East and North Africa 8) Sub-Saharan AfricaEach section begins with an extensive explanatory text which sets the languages of that region in context. This includes a general linguistic history of the area detailing the genetic relations of the languages and their characteristic features. Sociolinguistic and statistical data (including population figures) are given - often shown in tabular form for ease of use.This is followed by bibliographies of both classic and new publications, directing the reader to additional sources for further research.Detailed colour maps for the final part of each section and begin with a key map which shows at a glance how the region is divided. Unique time-of-contact maps for Australia and the Americas show the effect, over time, of contact with Western civilization on the linguistic profile of these regions. Concluding the work is the alphaetically arranged language index of over 4,000 languages, which lists both map number and language number for ease of access.The Atlas is an essential resource for all students, teachers and researchers in language and linguistics. In addition, it will be a valuable source for other areas of study, such as ethnography, cultural history, anthropology and geography.

Before the first appearance of the Atlas of the World's Languages in 1993, all the world's languages had never been accurately and completely mapped. The Atlas depicts the location of every known living language, including languages on the point of extinction. This fully revised edition of the Atlas offers: up-to-date research, some from fieldwork in early 2006 a general linguistic history of each section an overview of the genetic relations of the languages in each section statistical and sociolinguistic information a large number of new or completely updated maps further reading and a bibliography for each section a cross-referenced language index of over 6,000 languages. Presenting contributions from international scholars, covering over 6,000 languages and containing over 150 full-colour maps, the Atlas of the World's Languages is the definitive reference resource for every linguistic and reference library.

Product Description: Basic Korean Grammar covers all the basic sentence structures, verbal forms and idiomatic expressions taught in the first two years of a high school or college level Korean language course.This book is specifically designed to help the following learners: Anyone taking a beginning or intermediate level Korean language course Adult learners who are studying Korean on their own or with a tutor Anyone who has studied Korean previously and now wishes to review and brush-up Heritage learners who speak a bit of Korean but want to speak it more correctlyWhether readers are just beginning to learn Korean, brushing-up after a hiatus, or striving to finesse their rudimentary knowledge, Basic Korean Grammar offers an accessible and straightforward overview of the language...read more

Product Description: This study, first published in 1998, provides a close investigation of central syntactic issues in the English imperative clause type. It argues that the imperative has largely regular syntactic behaviour within a conventional conception of English clause structure...read more

Product Description: This study, first published in 1988, examines cases of interaction of morphology and syntax in American Sign Language and proposes that clause structure and syntactic phenomena are not defined in terms of verb agreement or sign order, but in terms of grammatical relations...read more

Product Description: This title, first published in 1985, is an investigation of certain aspects of the syntax of relative and comparative clauses. The author provides a typological survey of relative clauses in the languages of the world which serves both to convey a general impression of what relative clauses are like in the languages of the world, and to establish certain phenomena that are of theoretical import...read more

Product Description: This title, first published in 1988, is an inquiry into the nature of predication in natural language. The study is based on the hypothesis that infinitives and gerunds are not clausal or propositional constructions and attempts to provide support for such a hypothesis, whilst also drawing from analysis of various anaphoric phenomena...read more

Product Description: The main goal of this study, first published in 1994, is to present a substantial part of the grammar of French. This goal is achieved by bringing together two aspects of syntactic investigation. First, the study focuses on a vast range of French clausal phenomena, including Object Raising constructions, Causative constructions of various types, Impersonal constructions, amongst many others...read more

Product Description: This work, first published in 1985, is an analysis of the syntax of the Albanian verb complex. The term "verb complex" is defined here as the verb stem and its conjugational endings, together with the perfect auxiliaries and verb clitics...read more