LINGUIST List 14.3508

Thu Dec 18 2003

Books: General Linguistics: Slater

Editor for this issue: Madhavi Jammalamadaka <madhulinguistlist.org>

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1. philippa.gedge, A Grammar of Mangghuer: Slater

Title: A Grammar of Mangghuer
Subtitle: A Mongolic Language of China's Qinghai-Gansu Sprachbund
Series Title: RoutledgeCurzon Asian Linguistics Series
			
Publication Year: 2003
			
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis) 
 http://www.routledge.com/		 
			
Book URL: http://www.routledgecurzon.com 

Author: Keith W Slater, Summer Institute Linguistics (SIL) International, UK 

Hardback: ISBN: 0700714715, Pages: 400, Price: 80.00
			
Abstract:

This book is a grammar of Mangghuer, a Mongolic language spoken by
approximately 25,000 people in China's northwestern Qinghai
Province. Mangghuer is virtually unknown outside China, and no grammar
of Mangghuer has ever been published in any language. The book's
primary importance is thus as a systematic grammatical description of
a little-known language. The book also makes a significant
contribution to comparative Mongolic studies. In addition to the
synchronic description of Mangghuer, extensive comparison with other
Mongolic languages is included, demonstrating the genetic relationship
of Mangghuer within that family. In the course of describing Mangghuer
linguistic structures, the book also examines issues of interest to
linguistic typologists.

Lingfield(s):
		General Linguistics 			 
			 
Language Family(ies):
		Mongolian
 
Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)

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