Author: Lyle Campbell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317610903
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
Language Isolates explores this fascinating group of languages that surprisingly comprise a third of the world’s languages. Individual chapters written by experts on these languages examine the world's major language isolates and language isolates by geographic regions, with up-to-date descriptions of many, including previously unrecorded language isolates. Each language isolate represents a unique lineage and a unique window on what is possible in human language, making this an essential volume for anyone interested in understanding the diversity of languages and the very nature of human language. Language Isolates is key reading for professionals and students in linguistics and anthropology.
Language Isolates
Author: Lyle Campbell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317610903
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
Language Isolates explores this fascinating group of languages that surprisingly comprise a third of the world’s languages. Individual chapters written by experts on these languages examine the world's major language isolates and language isolates by geographic regions, with up-to-date descriptions of many, including previously unrecorded language isolates. Each language isolate represents a unique lineage and a unique window on what is possible in human language, making this an essential volume for anyone interested in understanding the diversity of languages and the very nature of human language. Language Isolates is key reading for professionals and students in linguistics and anthropology.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317610903
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
Language Isolates explores this fascinating group of languages that surprisingly comprise a third of the world’s languages. Individual chapters written by experts on these languages examine the world's major language isolates and language isolates by geographic regions, with up-to-date descriptions of many, including previously unrecorded language isolates. Each language isolate represents a unique lineage and a unique window on what is possible in human language, making this an essential volume for anyone interested in understanding the diversity of languages and the very nature of human language. Language Isolates is key reading for professionals and students in linguistics and anthropology.
Language Isolates II: Kanoé to Yurakaré
Author: Patience Epps
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110432730
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
The goal of this handbook is to provide a comprehensive resource on the Amazonian languages that synthesizes a diverse body of work by a highly international group of linguists. It will provide a review of the current state of the art, thus laying the groundwork for future scholarship in this important area. Volume 2 will focus on theory-neutral grammatical descriptions of smaller Amazonian language families.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110432730
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
The goal of this handbook is to provide a comprehensive resource on the Amazonian languages that synthesizes a diverse body of work by a highly international group of linguists. It will provide a review of the current state of the art, thus laying the groundwork for future scholarship in this important area. Volume 2 will focus on theory-neutral grammatical descriptions of smaller Amazonian language families.
Language Isolates I: Aikanã to Kandozi-Shapra
Author: Patience Epps
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110419408
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
This handbook provides the first broadly comprehensive, typologically-informed descriptive overview of the languages of Greater Amazonia. Organized by genealogical units, the chapters provide empirically rich descriptions of the phonology and grammar of all Amazonian families and isolates for which data and descriptions exist. Volume 1 focuses on the many isolates of the region – those languages for which no extant sisters can be identified.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110419408
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
This handbook provides the first broadly comprehensive, typologically-informed descriptive overview of the languages of Greater Amazonia. Organized by genealogical units, the chapters provide empirically rich descriptions of the phonology and grammar of all Amazonian families and isolates for which data and descriptions exist. Volume 1 focuses on the many isolates of the region – those languages for which no extant sisters can be identified.
Language Isolates I: Aikanã to Kandozi-Shapra
Author: Patience Epps
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110419610
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 898
Book Description
The series Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science is designed to illuminate a field which not only includes general linguistics and the study of linguistics as applied to specific languages, but also covers those more recent areas which have developed from the increasing body of research into the manifold forms of communicative action and interaction.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110419610
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 898
Book Description
The series Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science is designed to illuminate a field which not only includes general linguistics and the study of linguistics as applied to specific languages, but also covers those more recent areas which have developed from the increasing body of research into the manifold forms of communicative action and interaction.
Cataloguing the World's Endangered Languages
Author: Lyle Campbell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131741389X
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 425
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.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131741389X
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 425
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.
Historical Linguistics
Author: Lyle Campbell
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748675590
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
This accessible, hands-on introduction to historical linguistics - the study of language change - does not just talk about topics. With abundant examples and exercises, it helps students learn for themselves how to do historical linguistics.Distinctive to the book is its integration of the standard traditional topics with others now considered vital to historical linguistics: explanation of 'why' languages change; sociolinguistic aspects of linguistic change; syntactic change and grammaticalization; distant genetic relationships (how to show that languages are related); areal linguistics; and linguistic prehistory. Examples come from a wide range of languages. Those from the history of more familiar languages such as English, French, German and Spanish make the concepts they illustrate more accessible, while others from numerous non-Indo-European languages help to demonstrate the depth and richness of the concepts and methods they illustrate.With its lucid and engaging style, expert guidance and comprehensive coverage, this book is not only an invaluable textbook for students coming to the subject for the first time, but also an entertaining and engaging read for specialists in the field.Key Features"e; Practical hands-on approach including numerous student exercises"e; Wide range of languages and examples"e; Accessible writing style aimed at students"e; Comprehensive and insightful coverage of essential topicsKey Wordshistorical linguistics, syntactic change, grammaticalization, language change
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748675590
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
This accessible, hands-on introduction to historical linguistics - the study of language change - does not just talk about topics. With abundant examples and exercises, it helps students learn for themselves how to do historical linguistics.Distinctive to the book is its integration of the standard traditional topics with others now considered vital to historical linguistics: explanation of 'why' languages change; sociolinguistic aspects of linguistic change; syntactic change and grammaticalization; distant genetic relationships (how to show that languages are related); areal linguistics; and linguistic prehistory. Examples come from a wide range of languages. Those from the history of more familiar languages such as English, French, German and Spanish make the concepts they illustrate more accessible, while others from numerous non-Indo-European languages help to demonstrate the depth and richness of the concepts and methods they illustrate.With its lucid and engaging style, expert guidance and comprehensive coverage, this book is not only an invaluable textbook for students coming to the subject for the first time, but also an entertaining and engaging read for specialists in the field.Key Features"e; Practical hands-on approach including numerous student exercises"e; Wide range of languages and examples"e; Accessible writing style aimed at students"e; Comprehensive and insightful coverage of essential topicsKey Wordshistorical linguistics, syntactic change, grammaticalization, language change
Language Dispersal, Diversification, and Contact
Author: Emily Irene Crevels
Publisher:
ISBN: 0198723814
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
This book addresses the complex question of how and why languages have spread across the globe. International experts in the field explore this issue using new analytical research techniques and drawing on large databases, with a focus on the language and population histories of Island Southeast Asia/Oceania, Africa, and South America.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0198723814
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
This book addresses the complex question of how and why languages have spread across the globe. International experts in the field explore this issue using new analytical research techniques and drawing on large databases, with a focus on the language and population histories of Island Southeast Asia/Oceania, Africa, and South America.
Handbook of North American Indians: Northwest coast
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eskimos
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eskimos
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Language
Author: George Melville Bolling
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative linguistics
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Society in v. 1-11, 1925-34. After 1934 they appear in Its Bulletin.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative linguistics
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Society in v. 1-11, 1925-34. After 1934 they appear in Its Bulletin.
Wales and Her Language Considered from a Historical, Educational and Social Standpoint
Author: John Edward Southall
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wales
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wales
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description