Author : Asya Pereltsvaig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 45,44 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 : Julie Tetel Andresen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 21,45 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 : 20,81 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 : Mick Webb
Publisher : Owlkids
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 42,93 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 : Bernard Comrie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1125 pages
File Size : 10,27 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 : Julie Bakken Jepsen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1086 pages
File Size : 47,47 MB
Release : 2015-10-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 150150102X
Although a number of edited collections deal with either the languages of the world or the languages of particular regions or genetic families, only a few cover sign languages or even include a substantial amount of information on them. This handbook provides information on some 38 sign languages, including basic facts about each of the languages, structural aspects, history and culture of the Deaf communities, and history of research. This information will be of interest not just to general audiences, including those who are deaf, but also to linguists and students of linguistics. By providing information on sign languages in a manner accessible to a less specialist audience, this volume fills an important gap in the literature.
Author : Peter Ladefoged
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 38,96 MB
Release : 1996-02-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780631198154
This book describes all the known ways in which the sounds of the world's languages differ. Encapsulating the work of two leading figures in the field, it will be a standard work of reference for researchers in phonetics, linguistics and speech science for many years to come. The scope of the book is truly global, with data drawn from nearly 400 languages, many of them investigated at first hand by the authors.
Author : George L. Campbell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 970 pages
File Size : 16,85 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.
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Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 1320 pages
File Size : 21,11 MB
Release : 2010-04-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0080877753
Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World is an authoritative single-volume reference resource comprehensively describing the major languages and language families of the world. It will provide full descriptions of the phonology, semantics, morphology, and syntax of the world's major languages, giving insights into their structure, history and development, sounds, meaning, structure, and language family, thereby both highlighting their diversity for comparative study, and contextualizing them according to their genetic relationships and regional distribution.Based on the highly acclaimed and award-winning Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, this volume will provide an edited collection of almost 400 articles throughout which a representative subset of the world's major languages are unfolded and explained in up-to-date terminology and authoritative interpretation, by the leading scholars in linguistics. In highlighting the diversity of the world's languages — from the thriving to the endangered and extinct — this work will be the first point of call to any language expert interested in this huge area. No other single volume will match the extent of language coverage or the authority of the contributors of Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World. - Extraordinary breadth of coverage: a comprehensive selection of just under 400 articles covering the world's major languages, language families, and classification structures, issues and dispute - Peerless quality: based on 20 years of academic development on two editions of the leading reference resource in linguistics, Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics - Unique authorship: 350 of the world's leading experts brought together for one purpose - Exceptional editorial selection, review and validation process: Keith Brown and Sarah Ogilvie act as first-tier guarantors for article quality and coverage - Compact and affordable: one-volume format makes this suitable for personal study at any institution interested in areal, descriptive, or comparative language study - and at a fraction of the cost of the full encyclopedia
Author : Martin Haspelmath
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1104 pages
File Size : 12,88 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.
