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Author : Asya Pereltsvaig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 38,44 MB
Release : 2012-02-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107002788
Introduces readers to the rich diversity of human languages, familiarizing them with the variety of languages around the world.
Author : Bernard Comrie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1125 pages
File Size : 15,56 MB
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1317290496
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.
Author : R.E. Asher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,90 MB
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1317851099
Before the first appearance of the Atlas of the World's Languages in 1993, all the world's languages had never been accurately and completely mapped. The Atlas depicts the location of every known living language, including languages on the point of extinction. This fully revised edition of the Atlas offers: up-to-date research, some from fieldwork in early 2006 a general linguistic history of each section an overview of the genetic relations of the languages in each section statistical and sociolinguistic information a large number of new or completely updated maps further reading and a bibliography for each section a cross-referenced language index of over 6,000 languages. Presenting contributions from international scholars, covering over 6,000 languages and containing over 150 full-colour maps, the Atlas of the World's Languages is the definitive reference resource for every linguistic and reference library.
Author : Mick Webb
Publisher : Owlkids
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 42,18 MB
Release : 2015-04-14
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781771471558
"Take a tour of 21 of the world's most commonly spoken languages!"--Back cover.
Author : Julie Tetel Andresen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 26,95 MB
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1118531280
This innovative introduction outlines the structure and distribution of the world’s languages, charting their evolution over the past 200,000 years. Balances linguistic analysis with socio-historical and political context, offering a cohesive picture of the relationship between language and society Provides an interdisciplinary introduction to the study of language by drawing not only on the diverse fields of linguistics (structural, linguist anthropology, historical, sociolinguistics), but also on history, biology, genetics, sociology, and more Includes nine detailed language profiles on Kurdish, Arabic, Tibetan, Hawaiian, Vietnamese, Tamil, !Xóõ (Taa), Mongolian, and Quiché A companion website offers a host of supplementary materials including, sound files, further exercises, and detailed introductory information for students new to linguistics
Author : Anatole Lyovin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 35,61 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Education
ISBN : 0195149882
The only textbook of its kind, An Introduction to the Languages of the World is designed to introduce beginning linguistics students, who now typically start their study with little background in languages, to the variety of the languages of the world.
Author : George L. Campbell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 970 pages
File Size : 45,80 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780415202961
Many languages, particularly those which have achieved literary status, have been studied in great detail, and specialized descriptions of these are plentiful. What has not been so readily available, however, is a general survey covering a wide spectrum of the world's languages on a comparative basis. It is this kind of comparative cross-section of languages, ranging from the familiar and well-documented to the relatively obscure, that the Compendium of the World's Languages presents.
Author : Martin Haspelmath
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1104 pages
File Size : 17,94 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110218437
"This landmark publication in comparative linguistics is the first comprehensive work to address the general issue of what kinds of words tend to be borrowed from other languages. The authors have assembled a unique database of over 70,000 words from 40 languages from around the world, 18,000 of which are loanwords. This database allows the authors to make empirically founded generalizations about general tendencies of word exchange among languages." --Book Jacket.
Author : Paolo Acquaviva
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 822 pages
File Size : 21,81 MB
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110619547
The strong development in research on grammatical number in recent years has created a need for a unified perspective. The different frameworks, the ramifications of the theoretical questions, and the diversity of phenomena across typological systems, make this a significant challenge. This book addresses the challenge with a series of in-depth analyses of number across a typologically diverse sample, unified by a common set of descriptive and analytic questions from a semantic, morphological, syntactic, and discourse perspective. Each case study is devoted to a single language, or in a few cases to a language group. They are written by specialists who can rely on first-hand data or on material of difficult access, and can place the phenomena in the context of the respective system. The studies are preceded and concluded by critical overviews which frame the discussion and identify the main results and open questions. With specialist chapters breaking new ground, this book will help number specialists relate their results to other theoretical and empirical domains, and it will provide a reliable guide to all linguists and other researchers interested in number.
Author : Laura Becker
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 33,5 MB
Release : 2021-09-20
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3110724421
This study provides a systematic overview of articles and article systems in the world’s languages using a sample of 104 languages. Articles can be classified into 10 types according to their referential functions: definite, anaphoric, weak definite, recognitional, indefinite, presentational, exclusive-specific, nonspecific, inclusive-specific, and referential articles. All 10 types are described in detail with examples from various languages of the world. The book also addresses crosslinguistic trends concerning the distribution and the development of different article types, and it proposes a typology of article systems. The aim of this study is to provide a general crosslinguistic overview concerning the attested properties and distributions of articles. It is geared towards readers with interests in language typology and the nominal domain, and it can serve as a point of reference for language-specific studies of articles or determiners.