Author: Peter Kosta
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN: 9783631817506
Category : Baltic Sea Region
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
This book includes twelve articles on the Finnic and Baltic languages spanning the topics of morphosyntax, typology and onomastics. Taking an areal, comparative, or sociolinguistic perspective the articles bring new data and knowledge regarding the contacts and (dis)similarities between the language varieties in the Circum-Baltic area.
Insights Into the Baltic and Finnic Languages
Author: Peter Kosta
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN: 9783631817506
Category : Baltic Sea Region
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
This book includes twelve articles on the Finnic and Baltic languages spanning the topics of morphosyntax, typology and onomastics. Taking an areal, comparative, or sociolinguistic perspective the articles bring new data and knowledge regarding the contacts and (dis)similarities between the language varieties in the Circum-Baltic area.
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN: 9783631817506
Category : Baltic Sea Region
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
This book includes twelve articles on the Finnic and Baltic languages spanning the topics of morphosyntax, typology and onomastics. Taking an areal, comparative, or sociolinguistic perspective the articles bring new data and knowledge regarding the contacts and (dis)similarities between the language varieties in the Circum-Baltic area.
Circum-Baltic Languages
Author: Östen Dahl
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027297282
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
The area around the Baltic Sea has for millennia been a meeting-place for people of different origins. Among the circum-Baltic languages, we find three major branches of Indo-European — Baltic, Germanic, and Slavic, the Baltic-Finnic languages from the Uralic phylum and several others. The circum-Baltic area is an ideal place to study areal and contact phenomena in languages. The present set of two volumes look at the circum-Baltic languages from a typological, areal and historical perspective, trying to relate the intricate patterns of similarities and dissimilarities to the societal background. In Volume I, surveys of dialect areas and language groups bear witness to the immense linguistic diversity in the area with special attention to less well-known languages and language varieties and their contacts.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027297282
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
The area around the Baltic Sea has for millennia been a meeting-place for people of different origins. Among the circum-Baltic languages, we find three major branches of Indo-European — Baltic, Germanic, and Slavic, the Baltic-Finnic languages from the Uralic phylum and several others. The circum-Baltic area is an ideal place to study areal and contact phenomena in languages. The present set of two volumes look at the circum-Baltic languages from a typological, areal and historical perspective, trying to relate the intricate patterns of similarities and dissimilarities to the societal background. In Volume I, surveys of dialect areas and language groups bear witness to the immense linguistic diversity in the area with special attention to less well-known languages and language varieties and their contacts.
Handbook of Pre-Modern Nordic Memory Studies
Author: Jürg Glauser
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 311043136X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1190
Book Description
In recent years, the field of Memory Studies has emerged as a key approach in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and has increasingly shown its ability to open new windows on Nordic Studies as well. The entries in this book document the work-to-date of this approach on the pre-modern Nordic world (mainly the Viking Age and the Middle Ages, but including as well both earlier and later periods). Given that Memory Studies is an ever expanding critical strategy, the approximately eighty contributors in this volume also discuss the potential for future research in this area. Topics covered range from texts to performance to visual and other aspects of material culture, all approached from within an interdisciplinary framework. International specialists, coming from such relevant fields as archaeology, mythology, history of religion, folklore, history, law, art, literature, philology, language, and mediality, offer assessments on the relevance of Memory Studies to their disciplines and show it at work in case studies. Finally, this handbook demonstrates the various levels of culture where memory had a critical impact in the pre-modern North and how deeply embedded the role of memory is in the material itself.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 311043136X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1190
Book Description
In recent years, the field of Memory Studies has emerged as a key approach in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and has increasingly shown its ability to open new windows on Nordic Studies as well. The entries in this book document the work-to-date of this approach on the pre-modern Nordic world (mainly the Viking Age and the Middle Ages, but including as well both earlier and later periods). Given that Memory Studies is an ever expanding critical strategy, the approximately eighty contributors in this volume also discuss the potential for future research in this area. Topics covered range from texts to performance to visual and other aspects of material culture, all approached from within an interdisciplinary framework. International specialists, coming from such relevant fields as archaeology, mythology, history of religion, folklore, history, law, art, literature, philology, language, and mediality, offer assessments on the relevance of Memory Studies to their disciplines and show it at work in case studies. Finally, this handbook demonstrates the various levels of culture where memory had a critical impact in the pre-modern North and how deeply embedded the role of memory is in the material itself.
The World's Major Languages
Author: Bernard Comrie
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317290496
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 1125
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317290496
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 1125
Book Description
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.
A History of Finland's Literature
Author: George C. Schoolfield
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803241893
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 922
Book Description
The literature of Finland is bilingual, with lively and extensive traditions in both Finnish and Swedish. This history covers both literary traditions in detail. The volume?s first section, on Finnish-language literature, consists of a series of connected chapters by leading authorities within the field. It opens with a consideration of the folk literature in Finnish that flourished during the Middle Ages and then examines the more recent history of Finnish-language literature, with special emphasis placed on writings from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The second part of the book provides an examination of Finland?s Swedish-language literature from the late fifteenth century through the early nineteenth century. Subsequent chapters trace developments in Finland?s Swedish-language literature during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A survey of children?s literature?from both the Finnish- and Swedish-language traditions?concludes this exceptionally thorough volume.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803241893
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 922
Book Description
The literature of Finland is bilingual, with lively and extensive traditions in both Finnish and Swedish. This history covers both literary traditions in detail. The volume?s first section, on Finnish-language literature, consists of a series of connected chapters by leading authorities within the field. It opens with a consideration of the folk literature in Finnish that flourished during the Middle Ages and then examines the more recent history of Finnish-language literature, with special emphasis placed on writings from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The second part of the book provides an examination of Finland?s Swedish-language literature from the late fifteenth century through the early nineteenth century. Subsequent chapters trace developments in Finland?s Swedish-language literature during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A survey of children?s literature?from both the Finnish- and Swedish-language traditions?concludes this exceptionally thorough volume.
Anthropology of Color
Author: Robert E. MacLaury
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027291705
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 507
Book Description
The field of color categorization has always been intrinsically multi- and inter-disciplinary, since its beginnings in the nineteenth century. The main contribution of this book is to foster a new level of integration among different approaches to the anthropological study of color. The editors have put great effort into bringing together research from anthropology, linguistics, psychology, semiotics, and a variety of other fields, by promoting the exploration of the different but interacting and complementary ways in which these various perspectives model the domain of color experience. By so doing, they significantly promote the emergence of a coherent field of the anthropology of color. As of February 2018, this e-book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027291705
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 507
Book Description
The field of color categorization has always been intrinsically multi- and inter-disciplinary, since its beginnings in the nineteenth century. The main contribution of this book is to foster a new level of integration among different approaches to the anthropological study of color. The editors have put great effort into bringing together research from anthropology, linguistics, psychology, semiotics, and a variety of other fields, by promoting the exploration of the different but interacting and complementary ways in which these various perspectives model the domain of color experience. By so doing, they significantly promote the emergence of a coherent field of the anthropology of color. As of February 2018, this e-book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched.
Department of State Publication
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Area studies
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Each issue covers separate country.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Area studies
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Each issue covers separate country.
Syllable and Word Languages
Author: Javier Caro Reina
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110383950
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
This is the first volume concerned with the phonological typology of syllable and word languages, based on the model of a complex, multi-layered and hierarchically structured phonological system. The main typological claim is that the phonetic and phonological make-up of a language depends on the relevance of the prosodic categories. In previous research, the syllable and the phonological word have already proved to be typologically important. The contributions in this volume discuss theoretical questions and address issues such as the variable structure of the phonological word, the interplay between phonetics and phonology as well as the effect of a language’s phonological make-up on its morphology or lexicon. The volume provides detailed synchronic and diachronic analyses of (Non-)Indo-European languages which will serve as a basis for further typological research.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110383950
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
This is the first volume concerned with the phonological typology of syllable and word languages, based on the model of a complex, multi-layered and hierarchically structured phonological system. The main typological claim is that the phonetic and phonological make-up of a language depends on the relevance of the prosodic categories. In previous research, the syllable and the phonological word have already proved to be typologically important. The contributions in this volume discuss theoretical questions and address issues such as the variable structure of the phonological word, the interplay between phonetics and phonology as well as the effect of a language’s phonological make-up on its morphology or lexicon. The volume provides detailed synchronic and diachronic analyses of (Non-)Indo-European languages which will serve as a basis for further typological research.
Insight Guides Norway
Author: Insight Guides
Publisher: Apa Publications (UK) Limited
ISBN: 178005873X
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 721
Book Description
Insight Guide Norway is a comprehensive full-colour guide to the culture, history and people of this land of contrasts. Be inspired by our Best of Norway section highlighting unmissable sights and experiences and lavish Photo Features on topics such as Norwegian folklore, culinary traditions, architecture and natural wonders. Our unrivalled coverage of history, landscape and culture provides an essential introduction to Norway's untamed land and contemporary life, to complement the in-depth coverage of the arts, activities and modern culture. A detailed Places section, with stunning travel photography and full-colour maps, shows you where to go and what to do, from the world's most spectacular fjords and stunning coastal scenery to historic old towns and the best in modern architecture - making sure you don't miss anything. The comprehensive Travel Tips section gives you all the travel advice you need to plan your trip, with our selective, independent reviews to guide you to the most authentic hotels and restaurants.
Publisher: Apa Publications (UK) Limited
ISBN: 178005873X
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 721
Book Description
Insight Guide Norway is a comprehensive full-colour guide to the culture, history and people of this land of contrasts. Be inspired by our Best of Norway section highlighting unmissable sights and experiences and lavish Photo Features on topics such as Norwegian folklore, culinary traditions, architecture and natural wonders. Our unrivalled coverage of history, landscape and culture provides an essential introduction to Norway's untamed land and contemporary life, to complement the in-depth coverage of the arts, activities and modern culture. A detailed Places section, with stunning travel photography and full-colour maps, shows you where to go and what to do, from the world's most spectacular fjords and stunning coastal scenery to historic old towns and the best in modern architecture - making sure you don't miss anything. The comprehensive Travel Tips section gives you all the travel advice you need to plan your trip, with our selective, independent reviews to guide you to the most authentic hotels and restaurants.
The Major Languages of Eastern Europe
Author: Bernard Comrie
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1134932650
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Based on Comrie's much-praised The World's Major Languages , this is the first comprehensive guide in paperback to descibe in detail the language families of Eastern Europe, and includes an introduction which surveys the field.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1134932650
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Based on Comrie's much-praised The World's Major Languages , this is the first comprehensive guide in paperback to descibe in detail the language families of Eastern Europe, and includes an introduction which surveys the field.