Author : Leonard Newmark
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 15,93 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0804711291
A Stanford University Press classic.
Author : Ilo Stefanllari
Publisher : Hippocrene Books
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 48,25 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780781804196
In its ninth printing, the Albanian Practical Dictionary is expanded and romanized to include 9,000 entries with simple pronunciation and basic grammatical information. Also includes a transliteration guide, a list of abbreviations, geographical names, and idiomatic expressions.
Author : Linda Mëniku
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 49,55 MB
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0299250830
Approximately five million people worldwide speak Albanian. The opening of Albania in the 1990s to broader trading and diplomatic relations with other nations has created a need for better knowledge of the language and culture of this country. This book teaches the student to communicate in everyday situations in the language, with each chapter introducing a new situational context. Students learn to discuss work, vacations, health, and entertainment. Students also learn to practice basic skills such as shopping, ordering tickets, and renting an apartment. Upon completing this textbook, students will be at the A2/B1 level of proficiency on the scale provided by the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). The textbook includes: • eighteen lessons based on real-life situations, including three review lessons • dialogues to help introduce vocabulary and grammatical structures • comprehension questions and exercises • related readings at the end of each chapter • full translations for all examples discussed in grammar sections • a series of appendixes with numerous charts summarizing main classes of nouns, adjectives, and verbs • an appendix with the solutions to most of the exercises in the book • a glossary with all the words in the dialogs and readings.
Author : Janet Byron
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 49,11 MB
Release : 2011-05-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110815931
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.
Author : Robert Elsie
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 14,52 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814722145
In some senses, Albania is a living museum of the past. Originally a small herding community in the most inaccessible reaches of the Balkans, the presence of Albanians in southeastern Europe has been documented for over a thousand years. Albanian traditional folk culture, which evolved over centuries of relative isolation, is surprisingly rich. Yet despite recent events this culture remains little known to the Western world. Due to the lasting effects of a half century of Stalinist dictatorship, very few individuals even in Albania know much about their own popular traditions. The Dictionary of Albanian Religion, Mythology, and Folk Culture makes available for the first time a wealth of knowledge about Albanian popular belief and folk customs. Alphabetical entries shed light on blood feuding, figures of Albanian mythology, religious beliefs, communities, and sects, calendar feasts and rituals, and popular superstitions, as well as birth, marriage, and funeral customs, and sexual mores. This unique volume will stand as the standard reference work on the subject for years to come.
Author : Russell King
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,26 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781845455446
Analysing the post-1990 Albanian migration to Italy, this text is a study of one of Europe's newest, most dramatic yet least understood migrations. It explores the dynamics of this migration and takes a look at migrants' employment, housing and social exclusion in the country, as well as the process of return migration to Albania.
Author : Philip L. Hubbard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 14,40 MB
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1315462796
This work, first published in 1985, is an analysis of the syntax of the Albanian verb complex. The term "verb complex" is defined here as the verb stem and its conjugational endings, together with the perfect auxiliaries and verb clitics. In a wider sense the verb includes the verb and its central arguments: subject, direct object, and indirect object. The analysis is presented in a somewhat expanded version of the relational grammar framework of Perlmutter and Postal (1977). It is argued that by assuming the existence of multiple levels in the syntactic structure of a clause, it is possible to account for the distribution of active and non-active verb forms over the various constructions of Albanian with a single generalisation. This title will be of interest to students of language and linguistics.
Author :
Publisher : Amadou Croff
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 32,94 MB
Release : 2022-12-10
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
A basic word-to-word English to Albanian dictionary that includes reverse translation (Albanian to English) as well as a phrasebook. This volume also includes the Albanian alphabet with detailed pronunciation guide which includes the IPA values for each phoneme. The dictionary contains 1,000's of entries for each language set complete with synonyms for each entry. Plus many other extras.
Author : Felicitas Kleber
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 36,37 MB
Release : 2024-10-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110765411
The relationship between diachronic change and synchronic variation at the articulatory, auditory, acoustic and social level is one of the greatest puzzles in the study of language. Even though plentiful examples exist to suggest that dynamics of synchronic variation and diachronic change are tightly interconnected, a unified theory to account for language change in its relationship to all layers of synchronic variation remains a desideratum. This volume compiles new evidence from articulatory, acoustic, auditory, sociolinguistic, and phonological analyses of segmental and prosodic data and computational modelling, and offers a refreshing theoretical angle on the ongoing debates in language change. The volume is divided into three sections, each focusing on one aspect of speech dynamics – the historical, the emerging and the theoretical, each making a step toward a unified view of speech dynamics at the interface of synchronic variation and diachronic change. The large range of methodologies and theories represented in this book will appeal to scholars from a variety of linguistic fields with an interest in speech dynamics, including phoneticians, phonologists, sociolinguists, typologists, computational and historical linguists.
Author : Andrey N. Sobolev
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,13 MB
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1501509217
The book deals in detail with previously understudied language contact settings in the Balkans (South East Europe) that present a continuum between ethnic and linguistic separation and symbiosis among groups of people. The studies in this volume achieve several aims: they critically assess the Balkan Sprachbund theory; they analyse general contact theories against the background of new, original, representative field and historical Greek, Albanian, Romance, Slavic and Judesmo data; they employ and contribute to recent methods of research on linguistic convergence in bilingual societies; they propose new general assessments of extra- and intralinguistic factors of Balkanization over the centuries; and they outline prospects for future research. The factors relevant to contact scenarios and linguistic change in the Balkans are identified and typologized through models such as those related to a balanced or unbalanced (socio)linguistic situation.
