Book Description
Examines the writing systems, morphology, phonology, syntax, and lexicon of ancient languages.
Author : Roger D. Woodard
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Page : 1162 pages
File Size : 49,69 MB
Release : 2004-04-29
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521562560
Examines the writing systems, morphology, phonology, syntax, and lexicon of ancient languages.
Author : Roger D. Woodard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 20,42 MB
Release : 2008-04-10
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1139469320
This book, derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages, describes the ancient languages of Europe, for the convenience of students and specialists working in that area. Each chapter of the work focuses on an individual language or, in some instances, a set of closely related varieties of a language. Providing a full descriptive presentation, each of these chapters examines the writing system(s), phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon of that language, and places the language within its proper linguistic and historical context. The volume brings together an international array of scholars, each a leading specialist in ancient language study. While designed primarily for scholars and students of linguistics, this work will prove invaluable to all whose studies take them into the realm of ancient language.
Author : Roger D. Woodard
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,19 MB
Release : 2004
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Author : Roger D. Woodard
Publisher :
Page : 1194 pages
File Size : 37,7 MB
Release : 2004
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ISBN : 9781316134085
Author : Roger D. Woodard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 30,53 MB
Release : 2008-04-10
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1139469347
This book, derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages, describes the ancient languages of Syria-Palestine and Arabia, for the convenience of students and specialists working in that area. Each chapter of the work focuses on an individual language or, in some instances, a set of closely related varieties of a language. Providing a full descriptive presentation, each of these chapters examines the writing system(s), phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon of that language, and places the language within its proper linguistic and historical context. The volume brings together an international array of scholars, each a leading specialist in ancient language study. While designed primarily for scholars and students of linguistics, this work will prove invaluable to all whose studies take them into the realm of ancient language.
Author : Roger D. Woodard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,94 MB
Release : 2008-04-10
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521684978
A convenient, portable paperback derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages.
Author : David Crystal
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Page : 511 pages
File Size : 37,67 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : 9787560025131
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Author : David Crystal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 26,39 MB
Release : 2018-11-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108423590
Now in its third edition, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language provides the most comprehensive coverage of the history, structure and worldwide use of English. Fully updated and expanded, with a fresh redesigned layout, and over sixty audio resources to bring language extracts to life, it covers all aspects of the English language including the history of English, with new pages on Shakespeare's vocabulary and pronunciation, updated statistics on global English use that now cover all countries and the future of English in a post-Brexit Europe, regional and social variations, with fresh insights into the growing cultural identities of 'new Englishes', English in everyday use with new sections on gender identities, forensic studies, and 'big data' in corpus linguistics, and digital developments, including the emergence of new online varieties in social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp. Packed with brand new colour illustrations, photographs, maps, tables and graphs, this new edition is an essential tool for a new generation of twenty-first-century English language enthusiasts.
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Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 1320 pages
File Size : 13,26 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 : Coulter H. George
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 10,25 MB
Release : 2020-04-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0192594141
What could Greek poets or Roman historians say in their own language that would be lost in translation? After all, different languages have different personalities, and this is especially clear with languages of the ancient and medieval world. This volume celebrates six such languages - Ancient Greek, Latin, Old English, Sanskrit, Old Irish, and Biblical Hebrew - by first introducing readers to their most distinctive features, then showing how these linguistic traits play out in short excerpts from actual ancient texts. It explores, for instance, how Homer's Greek shows signs of oral composition, how Horace achieves striking poetic effects through interlaced word order in his Latin, and how the poet of Beowulf attains remarkable intensity of expression through the resources of Old English. But these are languages that have shared connections as well. Readers will see how the Sanskrit of the Rig Veda uses words that come from roots found also in English, how turns of phrase characteristic of the Hebrew Bible found their way into English, and that even as unusual a language as Old Irish still builds on common Indo-European linguistic patterns. Very few people have the opportunity to learn these languages, and they can often seem mysterious and inaccessible: drawing on a lucid and engaging writing style and with the aid of clear English translations throughout, this book aims to give all readers, whether scholars, students, or interested novices, an aesthetic appreciation of just how rich and varied they are.