A Guide to the World's Languages
Author : Merritt Ruhlen
Publisher :
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 34,39 MB
Release : 2021
Category : LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
ISBN : 9781503621336
A Guide to the World's Languages: Classification
Author : Merritt Ruhlen
Publisher :
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 44,58 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
Book Description
This is the first of three pathbreaking volumes that will constitute a wide-ranging analytical guide to the world's approximately 5,000 languages. The volumes are written for both linguists and general readers, and this first volume in particular assumes no background in linguistics. A postscript prepared for this paperback edition takes research data to 1990. The book is illustrated with 21 maps.
A Guide to the World's Languages
Author : Merritt Ruhlen
Publisher :
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 42,9 MB
Release :
Category : Language and languages
ISBN :
Book Description
Languages of the World
Author : Asya Pereltsvaig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 38,78 MB
Release : 2012-02-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107002788
Book Description
Introduces readers to the rich diversity of human languages, familiarizing them with the variety of languages around the world.
The Oxford Guide to the Transeurasian Languages
Author : Martine Robbeets
Publisher :
Page : 984 pages
File Size : 24,39 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0198804628
Book Description
This volume provides a comprehensive treatment of the Transeurasian languages. It offers detailed structural overviews of individual languages, as well as comparative perspectives and insights from typology, genetics, and anthropology. The book will be an indispensable resource for anyone interested in Transeurasian and comparative linguistics.
On the Origin of Languages
Author : Merritt Ruhlen
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 33,43 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780804728058
Book Description
Arguing that the prevailing conception of historical linguistics is flawed, the author presents a series of linguistic studies which demonstrate that all extant human languages share a common origin.
The Indigenous Languages of South America
Author : Lyle Campbell
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 765 pages
File Size : 19,5 MB
Release : 2012-01-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 311025803X
Book Description
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 in most areas of linguistics. Though formerly one of the linguistically least known areas of the world, extensive descriptive and historical linguistic research in recent years has expanded knowledge greatly. These advances are represented in this volume in indepth treatments by the foremost scholars in the field, with chapters on the history of investigation, language classification, language endangerment, language contact, typology, phonology and phonetics, and on major language families and regions of South America.
Atlas of the World's Languages
Author : R.E. Asher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1009 pages
File Size : 22,42 MB
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1317851080
Book Description
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.
Linguistics
Author : Anna L. DeMiller
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 37,9 MB
Release : 2000-01-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0313078106
Book Description
Thoroughly revised and updated with some 500 new entries-including the addition of pertinent Internet sites-this is the only bibliographic guide to information sources for linguistics. Coverage spans from 1957, the publication date of Chomsky's seminal work, to the present, with emphasis on English-language resources. DeMiller's detailed citations describe and evaluate each work, often offering comparisons to similar titles. Its broad coverage and in-depth reviews make this work essential to the research and study of general or theoretical linguistics. The book is also indispensable in the related areas of anthropological linguistics, applied linguistics, mathematical and computation linguistics, psycholinguistics, semiotics, and sociolinguistics, which are all treated in separate chapters, as well as the study of language and languages from a linguistic perspective. A must for any library supporting the study of linguistics or its related fields, this is a valuable reference and research tool. It i
Cataloguing the World's Endangered Languages
Author : Lyle Campbell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 30,37 MB
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 131741389X
Book Description
Cataloguing the World’s Endangered Languages brings together the results of the extensive and influential Catalogue of Endangered Languages (ELCat) project. Based on the findings from the most extensive endangered languages research project, this is the most comprehensive source of accurate information on endangered languages. The book presents the academic and scientific findings that underpin the online Catalogue, located at www.endangeredlanguages.com, making it an essential companion to the website for academics and researchers working in this area. While the online Catalogue displays much data from the ELCat project, this volume develops and emphasizes aspects of the research behind the data and includes topics of great interest in the field, not previously covered in a single volume. Cataloguing the World’s Endangered Languages is an important volume of particular interest to academics and researchers working with endangered languages.
