Catching Language

This is the first book to focus on the problem of writing grammars of little-known languages, a task of major urgency as linguists face the challenge of documenting the many endangered languages around the world. The chapters, all written by distinguished specialists, address the many questions the author of a reference grammar must tackle as they destil the regularities of a whole language into a single integrated volume.

Nicholas Evans is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Alan Dench is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia.

Felix K. Ameka is Lecturer at Leiden University, The Netherlands, and Editor of the Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (JALL).