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Word order in Toposa: An aspect of multiple feature-checking
An Eastern Nilotic language spoken in Southern Sudan, Toposa is highly inflectional and derivational, with a basic VSO word order. This 213-page book, both data-oriented and theoretical, is valuable for students of syntactic theory, language typology and discourse.
Research registers more languages
Linguistic research and surveys discover previously unregistered languages. Sometimes surveys of a speech community determine that the varieties spoken there should be considered two or more languages. Occasionally data suggesting the existence of a distinct language has been overlooked. Data reported to SIL during the past four years reveal 163 previously unrecognized languages.
Archives and Other News
- December 2008 Book release–A Grammar of Akoose: A northwest Bantu language
- November 2008 Language-based development of Cambodian ethnic minorities
- November 2008 Role for anthropologists in worldwide HIV/AIDS crisis
- November 2008 Bilingual dictionary-making seminar for fieldworkers
- November 2008 Literacy and a public health project reduce malaria
- November 2008 Endangered languages disappearing
- November 2008 Retroflex consonant harmony—poster session at NELS 39
- October 2008 Cree syllabic fonts paper presented at Algonquian Conference
- October 2008 Bantu Literacy Tool software introduced
- October 2008 A leadership course for literacy trainers in Papua New Guinea
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