Oxford Guides to the World's Languages – serie
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The Oxford Guide to the Malayo-Polynesian Languages of Southeast Asia
Av Alexander Adelaar, Antoinette Schapper
Inbunden, 2024
2566 kr
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This volume presents the most wide-ranging treatment available today of the Malayo-Polynesian languages of Southeast Asia and their outliers, a group of more than 800 languages belonging to the wider Austronesian family. It brings together leading scholars and junior researchers to offer a …
The Oxford Guide to the Atlantic Languages of West Africa
Inbunden, 2024
2413 kr
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This volume presents the first book-length overview of the Atlantic languages, a small family of languages spoken mainly on the Atlantic coast of West Africa. Languages in this area have been used in diverse multilingual societies with intense language contact for the whole of their known history, …
The Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages
Av Marianne Bakró-Nagy, Johanna Laakso m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
3112 kr
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This volume offers the most comprehensive and wide-ranging treatment available today of the Uralic language family, a group of languages spoken in northern Eurasia. While there is a long history of research into these languages, much of it has been conducted within several disparate national …
The Oxford Guide to the Transeurasian Languages
Av Martine Robbeets, Alexander Savelyev
Inbunden, 2020
3348 kr
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The Oxford Guide to the Transeurasian Languages provides a comprehensive account of the Transeurasian languages, and is the first major reference work in the field since 1965. The term 'Transeurasian' refers to a large group of geographically adjacent languages that includes five uncontroversial …
The Oxford Guide to the Bantu Languages
Av Lutz Marten, Ellen Hurst-Harosh m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
3478 kr
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This volume brings together leading scholars from Africa, Europe, the Americas and beyond to provide a detailed account of the languages of the Bantu family, which cover an area from Cameroon and Kenya in the north to South Africa in the south. The Bantu family is part of the Niger-Congo phylum and …
The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages
Inbunden, 2023
2614 kr
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The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages is a wide-ranging reference work that explores the more than 550 traditional and new Indigenous languages of Australia. Australian languages have long played an important role in diachronic and synchronic linguistics and are a vital testing ground for …
The Oxford Guide to the Papuan Languages
Av Nicholas Evans, Sebastian Fedden
Inbunden, 2026
3457 kr
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This volume presents a wide-ranging survey of the Papuan languages, spoken on the island of New Guinea and its surroundings. They make up around 12% of the world's languages, with a level of linguistic diversity comparable to the vast Eurasian zone concentrated into just 1% of the world's land …
The Oxford Guide to the Languages of the Central Andes
Inbunden, 2024
2981 kr
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This volume presents the most comprehensive overview in English of the languages of the Central Andes, spoken primarily in Peru and Bolivia. Efforts to describe and document Central Andean languages, as well as philological research into colonial documentation and texts, have blossomed in recent …
The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages
Av Adam Ledgeway, Martin Maiden
Inbunden, 2016
3699 kr
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The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages is the most exhaustive treatment of the Romance languages available today. Leading international scholars adopt a variety of theoretical frameworks and approaches to offer a detailed structural examination of all the individual Romance varieties and …
