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Languages and Linguistics of Europe
A Comprehensive Guide
Av Bernd Kortmann, Johan van der Auwera
Inbunden, 2011
5268 kr
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Open publication> The Languages and Linguistics of Europe: A Comprehensive Guide is part of the multi-volume reference work on the languages and linguistics of the continents of the world. The book supplies profiles of the language families of Europe, including the sign languages. It also discusses …
Indigenous Languages of South America
A Comprehensive Guide
Av Lyle Campbell, Verónica Grondona
Inbunden, 2012
5444 kr
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The Indigenous Languages of South America: A Comprehensive Guide is a thorough guide to the indigenous languages of this part of the world. With more than a third of the linguistic diversity of the world (in terms of language families and isolates), South American languages contribute new findings …
Languages and Linguistics of Australia
A Comprehensive Guide
Av Harold Koch, Rachel Nordlinger
Inbunden, 2014
4756 kr
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The Languages and Linguistics of Australia: A Comprehensive Guide is part of the multi-volume reference work on the languages and linguistics of the continents of the world. The volume provides a thorough overview of Australian languages, including their linguistic structures, their genetic …
Languages and Linguistics of Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific
A Comprehensive Guide
Av Bill Palmer
Inbunden, 2026
4526 kr
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Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific, broadly the Austronesian world, is home to considerable language diversity. This volume surveys the region, with chapters on Formosa, the Philippines, the major island groups of Indonesia and island Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia, and the Chamic languages. …
Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area
A Comprehensive Guide
Av Bill Palmer
Inbunden, 2017
4915 kr
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The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide is part of the multi-volume reference work on the languages and linguistics of all major regions of the world. The island of New Guinea and its offshore islands is arguably the most diverse and least documented linguistic …
Languages and Linguistics of Africa
Inbunden, 2018
4739 kr
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This innovative handbook takes a fresh look at the currently underestimated linguistic diversity of Africa, the continent with the largest number of languages in the world. It covers the major domains of linguistics, offering both a representative picture of Africa’s linguistic landscape as well as …
Languages and Linguistics of Mexico and Northern Central America
A Comprehensive Guide
Inbunden, 2024
6232 kr
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The handbook provides a thorough survey of the languages pertaining to the Mesoamerican culture region, including a wealth of new research on synchronic structures and historical linguistics of lesser known languages, also including sign languages. The volume moreover features overviews of recent …
Languages and Linguistics of Western Asia
An Areal Perspective
Av Geoffrey Haig, Geoffrey Khan
Inbunden, 2018
4915 kr
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The languages of Western Asia belong to a variety of language families, including Indo-European, Kartvelian, Semitic, and Turkic, but share numerous features on account of being in areal contact over many centuries. This volume presents descriptions of the modern languages, contributed by leading …
Languages and Linguistics of South Asia
A Comprehensive Guide
Av Hans Henrich Hock, Elena Bashir
Inbunden, 2016
4915 kr
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With nearly a quarter of the world’s population, members of at least five major language families plus several putative language isolates, South Asia is a fascinating arena for linguistic investigations, whether comparative-historical linguistics, studies of language contact and multilingualism, or …
Spread of World Languages
Factors and Effects in Present and Past
Av Bernd Kortmann, Walter Bisang m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
6232 kr
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A world language is a language that is spoken internationally and is learned and spoken by a large number of people as a second language. A world language is characterized not only by the total number of speakers (native and second language speakers), but also by its geographical distribution, as …
Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia
Language Families
Av Edward Vajda
Inbunden, 2024
4672 kr
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The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia: A Comprehensive Guide surveys the indigenous languages of Asia’s North Pacific Rim, Siberia, and adjacent portions of Inner Eurasia. It provides in-depth descriptions of every first-order family of this vast area, with special emphasis on …
Languages and Linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia
A comprehensive guide
Av Paul Sidwell, Mathias Jenny
Inbunden, 2021
5016 kr
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The handbook will offer a survey of the field of linguistics in the early 21st century for the Southeast Asian Linguistic Area. The last half century has seen a great increase in work on language contact, work in genetic, theoretical, and descriptive linguistics, and since the 1990s especially …
Languages and Linguistics of Indigenous North America
A Comprehensive Guide, Vol 1
Av Carmen Dagostino, Marianne Mithun m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
7132 kr
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This handbook provides broad coverage of the languages indigenous to North America, with special focus on typologically interesting features and areal characteristics, surveys of current work, and topics of particular importance to communities. The volume is divided into two major parts: subfields …
Languages and Linguistics of Indigenous North America
A Comprehensive Guide, Vol. 2
Av Carmen Dagostino, Marianne Mithun m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
5016 kr
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This handbook provides broad coverage of the languages indigenous to North America, with special focus on typologically interesting features and areal characteristics, surveys of current work, and topics of particular importance to communities. The volume is divided into two major parts: subfields …
Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia
Typology, Morphosyntax and Socio-historical Perspectives
Av Edward Vajda
Inbunden, 2024
4645 kr
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The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia: A Comprehensive Guide surveys the indigenous languages of Asia’s North Pacific Rim, Siberia, and adjacent portions of Inner Eurasia. It provides in-depth descriptions of every first-order family of this vast area, with special emphasis on …
