Språkhistoria & jämförande språkvetenskap

Spoken by eighty million people in South Asia and a diaspora that stretches across the globe, Tamil is one of the great world languages, and one of the few ancient languages that survives as a mother tongue for so many speakers. David Shulman pres...

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'A persuasive and beautifully written take on how languages are constantly evolving... an enthralling read about human psychology and anthropology as well as linguistics.' ALEX BELLOS ___________________________________ 'Language is...

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I vilka ord och termer beskrev man samhället och makten i 1600- och 1700-talets Sverige? Vad menade man med begreppen politik, stat och folk, med folk och medborgare, med frihet och rent av demokrati? Och i vilka ord uttrycktes dessa begrepp? Förf...

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This book, the second volume in A Linguistic History of English, describes the development of Old English from Proto-Germanic. It is an internal history of the structure of English that combines traditional historical linguistics, modern syntactic...

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This study of the history of reading goes from the earliest examples of the clay tablets and cuneiform of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt via the invention of printing in the 15th century to the birth of a mass reading public and today's digita...

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This book describes the earliest reconstructable stages of the prehistory of English, drawing on work in Hittite, Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, Slavic, Gothic, and Old Norse. This second edition has been significantly revised to include new developments...

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Bjarke Frellesvig describes the development of the Japanese language from its recorded beginnings until the present day as reflected by the written sources and historical record. Beginning with a description of the oldest attested stage of the lan...

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Hittite is the earliest attested Indo-European language and was the language of a state which flourished in Asia Minor in the second millennium BC. This exciting and accessible introductory course, which can be used in both trimester and semester ...

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The Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy for Swedish Folk Culture is a national academy based in Uppsala. According to its statutes, one of the means by which the Academy is to pursue its object of promoting research into Swedish folk culture, understo...

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Greek: A History of the Language and its Speakers, Second Edition reveals the trajectory of the Greek language from the Mycenaean period of the second millennium BC to the current day. Offers a complete linguistic treatment of the history of the G...

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På en högstadieskola utanför Stockholm sitter en grupp killar innanför skolans entré. De kallas killarna i ljusgården. I andra sammanhang beskrivs de ibland som killar med invandrarbakgrund, eller som de själva ofta säger blattar. Rickard Jonsson ...

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'His cornucopia of tellers and tales is a delight, a riveting celebration of a genre that revels in its own hybridity and the imaginative riches produced by the crossing of cultural and literary borders' Financial Times 'Like a chil...

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"Nya världen" blir målet för en av upptäcktsfärderna med Rune Persson som ciceron. Vad betyder städernas namn i Nordamerika och Latinamerika? De geografiska namnen berättar en rafflande historia. Följ med på en spännande färd! Människokr...

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An unusual and authoritative 'natural history of languages' that narrates the ways in which one language has superseded or outlasted another at different times in history. The story of the world in the last five thousand years is above a...

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One of the best ways to learn a language is by studying the media that native speakers themselves listen to and read, and popular songs can also reveal much about the culture and traditions of an area where the language is spoken. Following on the...

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How does English work? What are the different elements? How do they all fit together? The fourth edition of this popular textbook takes the reader on a step-by-step journey through the various levels of language, covering all the linguistic framew...

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Raciolinguistics reveals the central role that language plays in shaping our ideas about race. This team of leading scholars-working both within and beyond the United States-shares powerful, much-needed research to help us understand the increasin...

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Gender Articulated is a groundbreaking work of sociolinguistics that forges new connections between language-related fields and feminist theory. Refuting apolitical, essentialist perspectives on language and gender, the essays presented here exami...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the Unit...

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Sveriges medeltida personnamn (SMP) innehåller i princip alla personnamn som har bevarats i skriftliga källor från det medeltida Sverige. Grunden är samlingarna i Uppsala, som innehåller närmare en miljon kort med belägg på namn från medeltiden oc...

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This book offers students all the necessary tools to read, understand, and analyse Classical Chinese texts, including descriptions of syntactic features, introductions to historical and cultural topics, and selected readings from classical literat...

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Considering literature comparatively can help readers realize how much can be learned by looking beyond the horizon of their own cultures, discovering not only more about other literatures, but also about their own. Ben Hutchinson offers a history...

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This multivolume work is still proving to be as fundamental to Old Testament studies as its companion set, the Kittel-Friedrich Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, has been to New Testament studies. Beginning with 'abh ('ab), "father...

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This multivolume work is still proving to be as fundamental to Old Testament studies as its companion set, the Kittel-Friedrich Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, has been to New Testament studies. Beginning with 'abh ('ab), -father, - a...

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This is a doctoral thesis in linguistics at Stockholm University, Sweden 2017. Susanne Vejdemo works with both quantitative and qualitative methods in lexical/semantic typology, semantics, historical and cognitive linguistics.

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This thesis discusses the phonology of sentence level intonation in Stockholm Swedish. Unlike most other Germanic languages Swedish and Norwegian use pitch to convey both lexical and sentence level information. As is well known from previous resea...

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From the early Dark Ages to the Renaissance it was widely believed that the language spoken in the Garden of Eden was a perfect language, expressing all possible things, and that all current languages were its decadent descendants. This is an inve...

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