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The Afroasiatic Languages
Av Zygmunt Frajzyngier, Erin Shay
Häftad, 2020
871 kr
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Afroasiatic languages are spoken by some 300 million people in Northern, Central and Eastern Africa and the Middle East. This book is the first typological study of these languages, which are comprised of around 375 living and extinct varieties. They are an important object of study because of …
The Germanic Languages
Häftad, 2006
871 kr
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Germanic - one of the largest sub-groups of the Indo-European language family - comprises 37 languages with an estimated 470 million speakers worldwide. This book presents a comparative linguistic survey of the full range of Germanic languages, both ancient and modern, including major world …
The Dravidian Languages
Av Bhadriraju Krishnamurti, S. R. Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
1777 kr
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The Dravidian languages are spoken by over 200 million people in South Asia and in Diaspora communities around the world, and constitute the world's fifth largest language family. It consists of about 26 languages in total including Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Telugu, as well as over 20 …
Australian Languages
Their Nature and Development
Häftad, 2007
1727 kr
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Aboriginal people have been in Australia for at least 40,000 years, speaking about 250 languages. Through examination of published and unpublished materials on each of the individual languages, Professor Dixon surveys the ways in which the languages vary typologically and presents a profile of this …
The Celtic Languages
Häftad, 2008
1056 kr
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This volume describes the six modern Celtic languages. Four of these, Modern Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh and Breton, are living community languages. The other two, Manx and Cornish, survived into the modern period, but are no longer extant as community languages, though they are the subject of …
The Slavic Languages
Av Roland Sussex, Paul Cubberley
Inbunden, 2006
2885 kr
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The Slavic group of languages - the fourth largest Indo-European sub-group - is one of the major language families of the modern world. With 297 million speakers, Slavic comprises 13 languages split into three groups: South Slavic, which includes Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian; East Slavic, which …
The Celtic Languages
Inbunden, 1993
3120 kr
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This volume describes the six modern Celtic languages. Four of these, Modern Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh and Breton, are living community languages. The other two, Manx and Cornish, survived into the modern period, but are no longer extant as community languages, though they are the subject of …
Pidgins and Creoles: Volume 1, Theory and Structure
Av John A. Holm
Häftad, 1988
783 kr
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This first volume of Holm's major survey of pidgins and creoles provides a readable introduction to a field of study that has become established only in the past few decades. Written for both students and general readers with a basic knowledge of linguistics, the book's original perspective will …
The Romance Languages
Av Rebecca Posner, S. R. Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
955 kr
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What is a Romance language? How is one Romance language related to others? How did they all evolve? And what can they tell us about language in general? In this comprehensive survey Rebecca Posner, a distinguished Romance specialist, examines this group of languages from a wide variety of …
The Papuan Languages of New Guinea
Häftad, 1986
955 kr
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This introduction to the descriptive and historical linguistics of the Papuan languages of New Guinea provide an accessible account of one of the richest and most diverse linguistic situations in the world. The Papuan languages number over 700 (or 20 per cent of the world's total) in more than …
The Slavic Languages
Av Roland Sussex, Paul Cubberley
Häftad, 2011
955 kr
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The Slavic group of languages - the fourth largest Indo-European sub-group - is one of the major language families of the modern world. With 297 million speakers, Slavic comprises 13 languages split into three groups: South Slavic, which includes Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian; East Slavic, which …
Chinese
Av Jerry Norman
Häftad, 1988
1022 kr
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This general introduction to the study of the Chinese language traces its history from its beginings in the second millennium BC to the present day and provides a clear picture of the contemporary language and its sociolinguistic status. Chinese in its numerous dialect forms, has more speakers than …
The Mesoamerican Indian Languages
Av Jorge A. Suarez, S. R. Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 1983
683 kr
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At least a hundred indigenous Indian languages are known to have been spoken in Mesoamerica, the cultural area that includes most of Mexico and part of South America, but it is only in the past fifty years that many of them have been adequately described. For some we still have no more than a …
The Languages of Native North America
Häftad, 2001
1307 kr
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This book provides an authoritative survey of the several hundred languages indigenous to North America. These languages show tremendous genetic and typological diversity, and offer numerous challenges to current linguistic theory. Part I of the book provides an overview of structural features of …
The Languages of the Soviet Union
Av Bernard Comrie, S. R. Anderson
Häftad, 1981
838 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 …
The Indo-Aryan Languages
Häftad, 1993
1643 kr
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In his ambitious survey of the Indo-Aryan languages, Colin Masica has provided a fundamental introduction which will interest not only general and theoretical linguists but also students of one or more of these languages who want to acquaint themselves with the broader linguistic context. Generally …
Pidgins and Creoles: Volume 2, Reference Survey
Av John A. Holm
Häftad, 1989
1458 kr
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This second volume of John Holm's Pidgins and Creoles provides an overview of the socio-historical development of each of some one hundred known pidgins and creoles. Each variety is grouped according to the language from which it drew its lexicon - Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, French, English, …
The Languages of Japan
Inbunden, 1990
1912 kr
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This book is a detailed survey of the two main indigenous languages of Japan, Japanese and Ainu. No genetic relationship has been established between them, and structurally they differ significantly. Professor Shibatani has therefore divided his study into two independent parts. The first is a most …
The Korean Language
Av Ho-Min Sohn, S. R. Anderson
Inbunden, 1999
2247 kr
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This book provides a detailed survey of the Korean language, covering its speakers, genetic affiliation, historical development, dialects, lexicon, writing systems, sound patterns, word structure, and grammatical structure. It is designed to be accessible to a wide readership, and provides a wealth …
The Languages of the Andes
Inbunden, 2004
2986 kr
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The Andean and Pacific regions of South America are home to a remarkable variety of languages and language families, with a range of typological differences. This linguistic diversity results from a complex historical background, comprising periods of greater communication between different peoples …
The Languages of the Andes
Häftad, 2007
1643 kr
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The Andean and Pacific regions of South America are home to a remarkable variety of languages and language families, with a range of typological differences. This linguistic diversity results from a complex historical background, comprising periods of greater communication between different peoples …
The Languages of Japan
Av Masayoshi Shibatani, S. R. Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 1990
1056 kr
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This book is a detailed survey of the two main indigenous languages of Japan, Japanese and Ainu. No genetic relationship has been established between them, and structurally they differ significantly. Professor Shibatani has therefore divided his study into two independent parts. The first is a most …
The Korean Language
Av Ho-Min Sohn, S. R. Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
955 kr
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This book provides a detailed survey of the Korean language, covering its speakers, genetic affiliation, historical development, dialects, lexicon, writing systems, sound patterns, word structure, and grammatical structure. It is designed to be accessible to a wide readership, and provides a wealth …
Australian Languages
Their Nature and Development
Inbunden, 2002
3204 kr
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Aboriginal people have been in Australia for at least 40,000 years, speaking about 250 languages. Through examination of published and unpublished materials on each of the individual languages, Professor Dixon surveys the ways in which the languages vary typologically and presents a profile of this …
The Balkan Languages
Av Victor A. Friedman, Brian D. Joseph
Inbunden, 2025
2162 kr
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Southeast Europe's Balkan peninsula is home to numerous languages that have come to converge structurally and lexically, due to complex social factors involving contact among speakers of these languages, constituting a 'sprachbund'. This volume provides the first comprehensive, book-length survey …
The Amazonian Languages
Av R. M. W. Dixon, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Inbunden, 1999
3120 kr
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The Amazon Basin is arguably both one of the least-known and the most complex linguistic regions in the world. It is the home of some 300 languages belonging to around twenty language families, plus more than a dozen genetic isolates, and many of these languages (often incompletely documented and …
The Amazonian Languages
Av R. M. W. Dixon, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Häftad, 2006
1492 kr
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The Amazon Basin is arguably both one of the least-known and the most complex linguistic regions in the world. It is the home of some 300 languages belonging to around twenty language families, plus more than a dozen genetic isolates, and many of these languages (often incompletely documented and …
The Dravidian Languages
Inbunden, 2003
3036 kr
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The Dravidian languages are spoken by over 200 million people in South Asia and in Diaspora communities around the world, and constitute the world's fifth largest language family. It consists of about 26 languages in total including Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Telugu, as well as over 20 …
The Germanic Languages
Inbunden, 2006
2029 kr
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Germanic - one of the largest sub-groups of the Indo-European language family - comprises 37 languages with an estimated 470 million speakers worldwide. This book presents a comparative linguistic survey of the full range of Germanic languages, both ancient and modern, including major world …
Turkic
Inbunden, 2021
2034 kr
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Turkic is one of the world's major language families, comprising a high number of distinct languages and varieties that display remarkable similarities and notable differences. Written by a leading expert in the field, this landmark work provides an unrivalled overview of multiple features of …
