Grammar Highlights 2024

Africa

A grammar of the Jewish Arabic dialect of Gabes , by Wiktor Gębski. Open Book Publishers, 2024. 530 pp.

Glottocode: tuni1259, ISO 639-3: aeb, status: at risk. Afro-Asiatic > Semitic > West Semitic > Arabian > Arabic > North African > Malta-Tunisian Arabic > Tunisian Arabic

Aspects du lipɔtɔ́-yaoléma: Une langue minoritaire du bief du Fleuve Congo , by André Motingea Mangulu, Hamidou Mayela Masuwa & Valentin Motumbe Amba. LINCOM Studies in African Linguistics, 99. LINCOM, 2024. 126 pp.

Glottocode: budz1238, ISO 639-3: bja, status: not endangered. Atlantic-Congo > Volta-Congo > Batoid > Southern Bantoid > Narrow Bantu > Central-Western Bantu > North Zaire River > Rivers Bantu > Ngiri > Motemboic > Bujaic > Budja

Elements of Guro grammar: Phonology and morphology, non-verbal lexical classes, determination, deixis, information structure , by Natalia V. Kuznetsova. EDUCatt, 2024. 212 pp.

Glottocode: guro1248, ISO 639-3: goa, status: not endangered. Mande > Eastern Mande > Southeastern Mande > Mano-Dan > Guro-Dan > Guro-Yaoure

Australia

A grammar of Warlmanpa , by Mitchell Browne. Asia-Pacific Linguistics. ANU Press, 2024. xxii + 555 pp.

Glottocode: warl1255, ISO 639-3: wrl, status: severely endangered. Pama-Nyungan > Desert Nyungic > Ngumpin-Yapa > Yapa

Eurasia

A grammar of Elfdalian , by Yair Sapir & Olof Lundgren. Grammars of World and Minority Languages. UCL Press, 2024. xxi + 383 pp.

Glottocode: dale1238, ISO 639-3: qer, status: threatened. Indo-European > Classical Indo-European > Germanic > Northwest Germanic > North Germanic > North Scandinavian > East-Central Swedic

A grammar of Limbu based on the Phedap dialect of the old Limbu heartland , by George van Driem. Jagadambā Prakāśan, 2024.^[1]

Glottocode: limb1266, ISO 639-3: lif, status: threatened. Sino-Tibetan > Himalayish > Mahakiranti > Kiranti > Eastern Kiranti > Tamar

A grammar of Pangkhua , by Mohammed Zahid Akter. Mouton Grammar Library, 97. De Gruyter Mouton, 2024. xv + 420 pp.

Glottocode: pank1249, ISO 639-3: pkh, status: vulnerable. Sino-Tibetan > Kuki-Chin-Naga > Kuki-Chin > Core Central Kuki-Chin

A grammar of the Hittite language (Part 1: Reference Grammar) , by Harry A. Hoffner Jr. & Craig H. Melchert. 2nd edn. Languages of the Ancient Near East. Eisenbrauns, 2024. 710 pp.

Glottocode: hitt1242, ISO 639-3: hit, status: extinct. Indo-European > Anatolian

A sketch grammar of Northeast Geg Albanian from southern Kosovo , by Adrian Kuqi. Languages of the World/Materials, 517. LINCOM, 2024. 266 pp.

Glottocode: gheg1238, ISO 639-3: aln, status: not endangered. Indo-European > Classical Indo-European > Albanian

Study of an Abruzzese language variety Uâʃtaréule: Documentation, analysis and relationship with Italian , by Ray LaVerghetta. LINCOM Studies in Romance Linguistics, 88. LINCOM, 2024. 328 pp.

Glottocode: neap1235, ISO 639-3: nap, status: threatened. Indo-European > Classical Indo-European > Italic > Latino-Faliscan > Latinic > Imperial Latin > Romance > Italo-Western Romance > Italo-Dalmatian > Italian Romance > Continental Southern Italian

The Neo-Aramaic dialect of the Jews of Dohok: A comparative-typological grammar , by Dorota Molin. Brill, 2024. xxi + 253 pp.

Glottocode: lish1247, ISO 639-3: lsd, status: threatened. Afro-Asiatic > Semitic > West Semitic > Central Semitic > Northwest Semitic > Aramaic > Imperial Middle-Modern Aramaic > Eastern Aramaic > Central Eastern Aramaic > North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic > Northwestern Jewish Neo-Aramaic

Varietatea nogai dobrogeană: fonetică, morfologie, sintaxă [The Dobrogean Nogai variety: Phonetics, morphology, syntax] , by Leyla Mambet Cheamil. Editura ISPMN, 2024. 348 pp.

Glottocode: noga1249, ISO 639-3: nog, status: threatened. Turkic > Common Turkic > Kipchak > Southeast Kipchak > South Kipchak > Nogai

North America

A grammar and dictionary of Gayogo̱hó:nǫˀ (Cayuga), by Carrie Dyck, Frances Froman, Alfred Keye & Lottie Keye. Studies of Amerindian Linguistics, 1. Language Science Press, 2024. xxxii + 1102 pp.

Glottocode: cayu1261, ISO 639-3: cay, status: severely endangered. Iroquoian > Northern Iroquoian > Lake Iroquoian > Greater Iroquois > Iroquois

A grammar of Eyak , by Michael Krauss, Gary Holton & Kevin Baetscher. Mouton Grammar Library, 88. De Gruyter Mouton, 2024. 1200 pp.

Glottocode: eyak1241, ISO 639-3: eya, status: awakening. Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit > Athabaskan-Eyak

A grammar of Mandan , by Ryan M. Kasak. Comprehensive Grammar Library, 10. Language Science Press, 2024. 624 pp.

Glottocode: mand1446, ISO 639-3: mhq, status: dormant. Siouan

Grammatik des Dakota (Sioux): Grundzüge des Santee-Sisseton Dialekts , by Berthold Simons. LINCOM Studies in Native American Linguistics, 89. LINCOM, 2024. 362 pp.

Glottocode: dako1258, ISO 639-3: dak, status: endangered. Siouan > Mississipi Valley > Dakotan > Sioux

Papunesia

A grammar of Doromu-Koki , by Robert L. Bradshaw. LINCOM Studies in Pacific Languages, 1. LINCOM, 2024. 754 pp.

Glottocode: doro1266, ISO 639-3: kqc, status: not endangered. Manubaran

A grammar of Kagayanen , by Carol J. Pebley & Thomas E. Payne. Comprehensive Grammar Library, 8. Language Science Press, 2024. xix + 721 pp.

Glottocode: kaga1256, ISO 639-3: cgc, status: not endangered. Austronesian > Malayo-Polynesian > Greater Central Philippine > Manobo > North Manobo

A grammar of Vamale , by Jean Rohleder. Comprehensive Grammar Library, 9. Language Science Press, 2024. 364 pp.

Glottocode: vama1243, ISO 639-3: mkt, status: endangered. Austronesian > Malayo-Polynesian > Eastern Malayo-Polynesian > Oceanic > Southern Melanesian > New Caledonian > Mainland New Caledonian > Northern New Caledonian > Mid-Northern New Caledonian > Voh-Kone-Cem-Pac > Voh-Kone

South America

A grammar of Paunaka , by Lena Terhart. Comprehensive Grammar Library, 7. Language Science Press, 2024. 813 pp.

Glottocode: paun1241, ISO 639-3: pnk, status: critically endangered. Arawakan > Southern Maipuran > Bolivian Arawakan > Mojeño-Paunaca

A grammar of Sikuani , by Francesc Queixalós. LINCOM Studies in Native American Linguistics, 92. LINCOM, 2024. 320 pp.

Glottocode: guah1255, ISO 639-3: guh, status: vulnerable. Guahiboan > Nuclear Guahiboan > Central Guahibo > Guahibo-Playero