Under-researched aspects of well-described languages as well as from lesser-known languages (Faroese, Frisian, Luxembourgish, Yiddish) are examined.
Her parents work on recruitment and fund-raising for SIL International, a Christian missionary organization based in Dallas that studies, documents and helps in developing written forms of lesser-known languages.
The Romance languages dominate western and Mediterranean Europe and include French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and Romanian, plus such lesser-known languages as Occitan (Provençal) in southern France, Catalan in northeastern Spain and Andorra, and Romansh in southern Switzerland.
This book is an enrichment of formal syntax: the author widens the empirical domain under examination by including not only data from lesser-known languages but also phenomena that have often been set aside as being outside of the domain of syntax.
The company also notes it's not just focused on widely-spoken languages, but is working to add lesser-known languages, as well, like Manx and Maori.
Not only did he base much of his scholarship on lesser-known languages and dialects, but his colleagues said he rescued many of the obscure ones.
For instance, a California software nonprofit called the Unicode Consortium has made fonts available for Hawaiian and other lesser-known languages, so that speakers can text and tweet in their native tongues, Andresen said.
But the kind of entree the fair affords into the American market is even more important for lesser-known Spanish-language authors.
His job in London as a top-flight interpreter (proficient in English, French, Swahili and many lesser-known African languages) has amplified two qualities shared by many of the author's heroes: a longing to be "all things to all men" and an "inextinguishable need to belong".
As the editors and contributors of Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited prove, however, this predictability and stability vanish in the study of lesser-known patterns and languages.
After many years of field research in Siberia, Castrén made important contributions to the study of the lesser-known Uralic, Altaic, and Paleo-Siberian languages.
