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World Atlas of Language Structures
AvBernard Comrie,David Gilm. fl.
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2005
8 645 kr
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The World Atlas of Language Structures is a book and CD combination displaying the structural properties of the world's languages. 142 world maps and numerous regional maps - all in colour - display the geographical distribution of features of pronunciation and grammar, such as number of vowels, tone systems, gender, plurals, tense, word order, and body part terminology. Each world map shows an average of 400 languages and is accompanied by a fully referenced description of the structural feature in question. The CD provides an interactive electronic version of the database which allows the reader to zoom in on or customize the maps, to display bibliographical sources, and to establish correlations between features. The book and the CD together provide an indispensable source of information for linguists and others seeking to understand human languages. The Atlas will be especially valuable for linguistic typologists, grammatical theorists, historical and comparative linguists, and for those studying a region such as Africa, Southeast Asia, North America, Australia, and Europe. It will also interest anthropologists and geographers. More than fifty authors from many different countries have collaborated to produce a work that sets new standards in comparative linguistics. No institution involved in language research can afford to be without it.
Grammar of Akabea
AvBernard Comrie,Raoul Zamponi
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2020
1 543 kr
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This volume is the first extensive and reliable grammatical description of any traditional language of the Great Andamanese family. Akabea died out in the 1920s, but was extensively documented in the late nineteenth century by two British administrators, Edward Horace Man and Maurice Vidal Portman. Although neither was a trained linguist, their material nonetheless provides a sufficient basis for a reliable analysis of Akabea grammar, especially its morphology and its phrasal and clausal syntax, although there are inevitable limitations on our understanding of Akabea phonology, clause combining, and discourse structure. The grammar is accompanied by an online appendix that provides a diplomatic edition with commentary and analysis of the single most valuable resource for Akabea grammatical analysis, Portman''s Dialogues. Raoul Zamponi and Bernard Comrie''s Grammar of Akabea offers a unique insight into the culture, history, and prehistory of the Andaman Islands, and also broadens our understanding of the human capacity for language. It highlights the typologically interesting and cross-linguistically rare traits of the language, such as a rich system of somatic (body-part) prefixes and the phenomenon of Verb Root Ellipsis, whereby under certain circumstances the root of a verb may be absent, leaving behind a grammatical word consisting solely of affixes. The project at last makes this valuable evidence accessible both to linguists and to interested scholars from other disciplines, such as anthropology, history, and genetics.
The Russian Language in the Twentieth Century
AvBernard Comrie,Gerald Stonem. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 1996
3 848 kr
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Bernard Comrie and Gerald Stone's The Russian Language since the Revolution (OUP 1978) provided a comprehensive account of the way Russian changed in the period between 1917 and the 1970s. In this new volume the authors, joined by Maria Polinsky, extend the time frame back to 1900 and forward to glasnost in the mid 1980s. They first consider changes in the pronunciation, morphology, syntax, and vocabulary of the language and then examine the effects of social change on the language in chapters on the changing staus of women, modes of address and speech etiquette, and orthography. They show that changes in all these areas have been very substantial, and explore the extent to which the standard language, as portrayed in dictionaries and grammars, coincides with the actual usage - both spoken and written - of educated Russians. The book will be of interest not only to students of Russian but more generally to sociolinguists and those with an interest in language change.
A Grammar of Akabea
AvRaoul Zamponi,Bernard Comrie
Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
2 040 kr
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This volume is the first extensive and reliable grammatical description of any traditional language of the Great Andamanese family. Akabea died out in the 1920s, but was extensively documented in the late nineteenth century by two British administrators, Edward Horace Man and Maurice Vidal Portman. Although neither was a trained linguist, their material nonetheless provides a sufficient basis for a reliable analysis of Akabea grammar, especially its morphology and its phrasal and clausal syntax, although there are inevitable limitations on our understanding of Akabea phonology, clause combining, and discourse structure. The grammar is accompanied by an online appendix that provides a diplomatic edition with commentary and analysis of the single most valuable resource for Akabea grammatical analysis, Portman's Dialogues. Raoul Zamponi and Bernard Comrie's Grammar of Akabea offers a unique insight into the culture, history, and prehistory of the Andaman Islands, and also broadens our understanding of the human capacity for language. It highlights the typologically interesting and cross-linguistically rare traits of the language, such as a rich system of somatic (body-part) prefixes and the phenomenon of Verb Root Ellipsis, whereby under certain circumstances the root of a verb may be absent, leaving behind a grammatical word consisting solely of affixes. The project at last makes this valuable evidence accessible both to linguists and to interested scholars from other disciplines, such as anthropology, history, and genetics.
Language Universals and Linguistic Typology: Syntax and Morphology
AvBernard Comrie
Häftad, Engelska
720 kr
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World's Major Languages
AvBernard Comrie
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
769 kr
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The World's Major Languages features over 50 of the world's languages and language families. This revised edition includes updated bibliographies for each chapter and up-to-date census figures. The featured languages have been chosen based on the number of speakers, their role as official languages and their cultural and historical importance. Each language is looked at in depth, and the chapters provide information on both grammatical features and on salient features of the language's history and cultural role.The World’s Major Languages is an accessible and essential reference work for linguists.
Major Languages of Western Europe
AvBernard Comrie
Häftad, Engelska, 1990
1 385 kr
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Based on Bernard Comrie's The World's Major Languages, this is a key guide to one of the major language families. The areas covered include Germanic languages, English, and Romance languages.
Major Languages of East and South-East Asia
AvBernard Comrie
Häftad, Engelska, 1990
1 487 kr
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Based on Bernard Comrie's much praised The World's Major Languages, this is a key guide to an important language family. The areas covered include Chinese, Japanese and Sino-Tibetan languages.
Major Languages of Eastern Europe
AvBernard Comrie
Häftad, Engelska, 1990
1 458 kr
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Based on Comrie's much-praised The World's Major Languages , this is the first comprehensive guide in paperback to descibe in detail the language families of Eastern Europe, and includes an introduction which surveys the field.
Major Languages of South Asia, the Middle East and Africa
AvBernard Comrie
Häftad, Engelska, 1990
613 kr
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Based on the much-praised The World's Major Languages, this is the first comprehensive guide in paperback to describe the development, grammar sound and writing system, and sociological factors of the major language families in these areas.
Tense
AvBernard Comrie,S. R. Andersonm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 1985
544 kr
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Bernard Comrie defines tense as the grammaticalisation of location in time. In this textbook he introduces readers to the range of variation found in tense systems across the languages of the world, bringing together a rich collection of illustrative material that student and specialist alike will find invaluable. This systematic account of the data is carefully integrated with a theoretical discussion of tense that is sensitive both to the range of tense oppositions found cross-linguistically and also to the constraints on that variation. For the most part the book is written without formalism, nor is it written within the framework of any specific current theory of linguistics. Nevertheless, as the final chapter makes clear, a formal theory of tense can build upon the insights gained here. For all readers, Dr Comrie's coherent and characteristically elegant account of this complex grammatical category will provide a solid basis for further research on tense, even in a language as thoroughly studied as English.
Aspect
An Introduction to the Study of Verbal Aspect and Related Problems
AvBernard Comrie
Häftad, Engelska, 1976
612 kr
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An introduction to the general linguistic study of aspect. Topics covered include the relation of tense and aspect, the morphology and the semantics of aspect, and structuralist and philosophical approaches. Dr Comrie draws his examples particularly from English and the Slavonic and Romance languages, but also from Arabic, Chinese, Welsh, Greek and a variety of others. This is the first study of aspect, considered as a general linguistic phenomenon. It is intended for students of individual languages as well as for students of linguistics.
The Languages of the Soviet Union
AvBernard Comrie,S. R. Anderson
Häftad, Engelska, 1981
711 kr
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A general account of the languages of the Soviet Union, one of the most diverse multinational and multilingual states in the world as well as one of the most important. There are some 130 languages spoken in the USSR, belonging to five main families and ranging from Russian, which is the first language of about 130,000,000 people, to Aluet, spoken only by 96 (in the 1970 census). Dr Comrie has two general aims. First, he presents the most important structural features of these languages, their genetic relationships and classification and their distinctive typological features. Secondly, he examines the social and political background to the use of functioning of the various languages in a multilingual state. The volume will be of importance and interest to linguists and to those with a broader professional interest in the Soviet Union.
Major Languages of South Asia, the Middle East and Africa
AvBernard Comrie
E-bok
Engelska, 2003
646 kr
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Based on the much-praised The World''s Major Languages, this is the first comprehensive guide in paperback to describe the development, grammar sound and writing system, and sociological factors of the major language families in these areas.
Major Languages of South Asia, the Middle East and Africa
AvBernard Comrie
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2003
646 kr
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Based on the much-praised The World''s Major Languages, this is the first comprehensive guide in paperback to describe the development, grammar sound and writing system, and sociological factors of the major language families in these areas.
Major Languages of Eastern Europe
AvBernard Comrie
E-bok
Engelska, 2002
1 714 kr
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Based on Comrie''s much-praised The World''s Major Languages , this is the first comprehensive guide in paperback to descibe in detail the language families of Eastern Europe, and includes an introduction which surveys the field.
Major Languages of Eastern Europe
AvBernard Comrie
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2002
1 709 kr
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Based on Comrie''s much-praised The World''s Major Languages , this is the first comprehensive guide in paperback to descibe in detail the language families of Eastern Europe, and includes an introduction which surveys the field.
Major Languages of Western Europe
AvBernard Comrie
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2021
1 640 kr
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Based on Bernard Comrie''s The World''s Major Languages, this is a key guide to one of the major language families. The areas covered include Germanic languages, English, and Romance languages.
Major Languages of Western Europe
AvBernard Comrie
E-bok
Engelska, 2021
1 623 kr
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Based on Bernard Comrie''s The World''s Major Languages, this is a key guide to one of the major language families. The areas covered include Germanic languages, English, and Romance languages.
Major Languages of East and South-East Asia
AvBernard Comrie
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2022
1 762 kr
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Based on Bernard Comrie''s much praised The World''s Major Languages, this is a key guide to an important language family. The areas covered include Chinese, Japanese and Sino-Tibetan languages.
Major Languages of East and South-East Asia
AvBernard Comrie
E-bok
Engelska, 2022
1 762 kr
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Based on Bernard Comrie''s much praised The World''s Major Languages, this is a key guide to an important language family. The areas covered include Chinese, Japanese and Sino-Tibetan languages.
World's Major Languages
AvBernard Comrie
Inbunden, Engelska, 2018
3 818 kr
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The World's Major Languages features over 50 of the world's languages and language families. This revised edition includes updated bibliographies for each chapter and up-to-date census figures. The featured languages have been chosen based on the number of speakers, their role as official languages and their cultural and historical importance. Each language is looked at in depth, and the chapters provide information on both grammatical features and on salient features of the language's history and cultural role.The World’s Major Languages is an accessible and essential reference work for linguists.
Major Languages of South Asia, the Middle East and Africa
AvBernard Comrie
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
1 004 kr
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Based on the much-praised The World's Major Languages, this is the first comprehensive guide in paperback to describe the development, grammar sound and writing system, and sociological factors of the major language families in these areas.
Major Languages of Eastern Europe
AvBernard Comrie
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
3 085 kr
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Based on Comrie's much-praised The World's Major Languages , this is the first comprehensive guide in paperback to descibe in detail the language families of Eastern Europe, and includes an introduction which surveys the field.
Major Languages of East and South-East Asia
AvBernard Comrie
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
2 528 kr
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Based on Bernard Comrie's much praised The World's Major Languages, this is a key guide to an important language family. The areas covered include Chinese, Japanese and Sino-Tibetan languages.
Major Languages of Western Europe
AvBernard Comrie
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
2 528 kr
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Based on Bernard Comrie's The World's Major Languages, this is a key guide to one of the major language families. The areas covered include Germanic languages, English, and Romance languages.
World's Major Languages
AvBernard Comrie
E-bok
Engelska, 2018
907 kr
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The World''s Major Languages features over 50 of the world''s languages and language families.
This revised edition includes updated bibliographies for each chapter and up-to-date census figures. The featured languages have been chosen based on the number of speakers, their role as official languages and their cultural and historical importance. Each language is looked at in depth, and the chapters provide information on both grammatical features and on salient features of the language''s history and cultural role.
The World’s Major Languages is an accessible and essential reference work for linguists.
World's Major Languages
AvBernard Comrie
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2018
901 kr
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The World''s Major Languages features over 50 of the world''s languages and language families.
This revised edition includes updated bibliographies for each chapter and up-to-date census figures. The featured languages have been chosen based on the number of speakers, their role as official languages and their cultural and historical importance. Each language is looked at in depth, and the chapters provide information on both grammatical features and on salient features of the language''s history and cultural role.
The World’s Major Languages is an accessible and essential reference work for linguists.
Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia
The State of the Art
AvBernard Comrie,N.J. Enfield
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2015
2 022 kr
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The studies in this book represent the rich, diverse and substantial research being conducted today in the linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia. The chapters cover a broad scope. Several studies address questions of language relatedness, often challenging conventional assumptions about the status of language contact as an explanatory factor in accounting for linguistic similarities. Several address the question of Mainland Southeast Asia as a linguistic area, exploring new ways to imagine and define the boundaries, and indeed the boundedness, of a Mainland Southeast Asia area. Two contributions rethink the received notion of the ''sesquisyllable'' with new empirical and theoretical angles. And a set of chapters explores topics in the morphology and syntax of the region''s languages, sometimes challenging orthodox assumptions and claims about what a typical language of Mainland Southeast Asia is like. Written by leading researchers in the field, and with a substantial overview of current knowledge and new directions by the volume editors N. J. Enfield and Bernard Comrie, this book will serve as an authoritative source on where the linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia is at, and where it is heading.
Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia
The State of the Art
AvBernard Comrie,N.J. Enfield
E-bok
Engelska, 2015
2 017 kr
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The studies in this book represent the rich, diverse and substantial research being conducted today in the linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia. The chapters cover a broad scope. Several studies address questions of language relatedness, often challenging conventional assumptions about the status of language contact as an explanatory factor in accounting for linguistic similarities. Several address the question of Mainland Southeast Asia as a linguistic area, exploring new ways to imagine and define the boundaries, and indeed the boundedness, of a Mainland Southeast Asia area. Two contributions rethink the received notion of the ''sesquisyllable'' with new empirical and theoretical angles. And a set of chapters explores topics in the morphology and syntax of the region''s languages, sometimes challenging orthodox assumptions and claims about what a typical language of Mainland Southeast Asia is like. Written by leading researchers in the field, and with a substantial overview of current knowledge and new directions by the volume editors N. J. Enfield and Bernard Comrie, this book will serve as an authoritative source on where the linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia is at, and where it is heading.

Bernard Comrie – författare

World Atlas of Language Structures

Grammar of Akabea

The Russian Language in the Twentieth Century

A Grammar of Akabea

Language Universals and Linguistic Typology: Syntax and Morphology

World's Major Languages

Major Languages of Western Europe

Major Languages of East and South-East Asia

Major Languages of Eastern Europe

Major Languages of South Asia, the Middle East and Africa

Tense

Aspect

The Languages of the Soviet Union

Major Languages of South Asia, the Middle East and Africa

Major Languages of South Asia, the Middle East and Africa

Major Languages of Eastern Europe

Major Languages of Eastern Europe

Major Languages of Western Europe

Major Languages of Western Europe

Major Languages of East and South-East Asia

Major Languages of East and South-East Asia

World's Major Languages

Major Languages of South Asia, the Middle East and Africa

Major Languages of Eastern Europe

Major Languages of East and South-East Asia

Major Languages of Western Europe

World's Major Languages

World's Major Languages

Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia

Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia