Search results for “[Subject: creole-languages]”

• Author(s): Robin Sabino • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyLanguage Contact in the Danish West Indies: Giving Jack His Jacket lays bare crucial roles played by community and resistance in the refashion...

• Author(s): Robbins Burling • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - Phonetics & PhonologyThis book is a comprehensive advanced introduction to linguistics, unique in its integration of variation and change with t...

• Author(s): Sebastian Nordhoff • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyIn The Genesis of Sri Lanka Malay: A Case of Extreme Language Contact, the synchrony and diachrony of Sri Lanka Malay are investigated f...

• Author(s): Ali Manoubi • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationLe hobyot, langue s�mitique (groupe sudarabique moderne), est parl� par quelques milliers de locuteurs dans l'est du Y�men et dans le sud du ...

• Author(s): John Merrill • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyThis book traces the history of the Cangin languages of Senegal, and presents a reconstruction of Proto-Cangin through careful application of ...

• Author(s): David Rood • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis volume includes seventeen papers by Robert L. Rankin. The papers included here focus on comparative-historical work on the Siouan language fa...

• Author(s): Kaoru Kiyosawa | Donna Gerdts • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Indigenous Languages in the AmericasThis book offers a comprehensive view of the morphology, syntax, and semantics of applicatives in Salish, a lang...

• Author(s): Julianne Maher • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyIn The Survival of People and Languages: Schooners, Goats and Cassava in St. Barthelemy, French West Indies, Julianne Maher explains a rare ...

• Author(s): James Essegbey • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationA comprehensive description of Tutrugbu (Nyangbo), a Ghana-Togo Mountain (GTM) language. It examines phonological, morphosyntactic and pra...

• Author(s): Daniele Baglioni • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyThe book deals with the concept of fragmentation as applied to languages and their documentation and the consequent theoretical and method...

• Author(s): Frederik Kortlandt • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - Etymology

• Author(s): Marie-Christine Kok Escalle | Francine Melka • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralDans quelle mesure les changements politiques ont-ils des effets sur la place qu'occupe une langue étrangère dan...

• Author(s): Nikolaos Lavidas • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyThis book adds a diachronic dimension to the study of written language contact. It examines in a contrastive way aspects of the history of...

• Author(s): Hezy Mutzafi • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyNeo-Mandaic is the last phase of a pre-modern vernacular closely related to Classical Mandaic, a Mesopotamian Aramaic idiom of Late Antiquity....

• Author(s): John Newman | Harald Baayen | Sally Rice • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - Syntax

• Author(s): Masato Kobayashi • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationMasato Kobayashi and Bablu Tirkey's The Kurux Language: Grammar, Texts and Lexicon offers a comprehensive grammar, transcribed and gloss...

• Author(s): Francisco Rodríguez Adrados • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Ancient Languages (see also Latin)Greek is one of the few languages still known to us after three thousand years that are still spoken today. In this ...

• Author(s): Michele Bianconi • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyThis volume contains a new and up-to date selection of case studies which offer new insights on various topics in Indo-European linguistic...

• Author(s): Steven Fassberg • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: ArabicAramaic has been spoken uninterruptedly for more than 3000 years, yet a generation from now most Aramaic dialects will be extinct. The study of the Northeas...

• Author(s): Nancy Dorian • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralIn Small-language Fates and Prospects Nancy C. Dorian gathers findings from decades of documenting an endangered Scottish Gaelic dialect, presen...

• Author(s): Leanne Hinton | Kenneth Hale • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeWith world-wide environmental destruction and globalization of economy, a few languages, especially English...

• Author(s): Daniel Petit • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyThis book provides an introduction to the historical syntax of the Indo-European languages. It aims to provide an overview of the main issues ...

• Author(s): Christopher Beckwith • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: JapaneseNo detailed description available for "Koguryo: The Language of Japan's Continental Relatives".

• Author(s): Gale Goodwin Gómez | Hein Van Der Voort • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe morphological process of reduplication occurs in languages throughout the world. Reduplication in indigenous lang...

• Author(s): Daniel Petit • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyThis book provides an introduction to the historical syntax of the Indo-European languages. It aims to provide an overview of the main issues ...

• Author(s): Anvita Abbi • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationWinner of the 2015 Kenneth L. Hale Award! A Grammar of the Great Andamanese Language is the first-ever detailed and exhaustive account of Gre...

• Author(s): Maria Manoliu-Manea • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis collection of readings is complementary to Introduction to Integrational Linguistics (Language & Communication Library, Vol.17),...

• Author(s): Heriberto Avelino • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - Phonetics & PhonologyThis book presents insights into laryngeal features. Taking diverse theoretical perspectives, it investigates properties ...

• Author(s): Mark Turin | Bettina Zeisler • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralHimalayan Languages and Linguistics gathers together nine outstanding and original contributions on the Tibeto-Burman and Indo-A...

• Author(s): Nathan Hill • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralWhile providing unique and detailed information on early Tibeto-Burman languages and their contact and relationship to other languages, this book...

• Author(s): John Peterson • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Southeast Asian Languages (see also Vietnamese)Kharia, spoken in central-eastern India, is a member of the southern branch of the Munda family, which forms the west...

• Author(s): Anne Aarssen • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis concise bibliography on South-African Languages and Linguistics was compiled on the occasion of the 20th International Congress of Linguist...

• Author(s): Sherman Wilcox • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Sign LanguageIn Ten Lectures on Cognitive Linguistics and the Unification of Spoken and Signed Languages Sherman Wilcox suggests that rather than abstracting away ...

• Author(s): George L. Driem • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis volume provides the most up-to-date and holistic but compact account of the peopling of the world from the perspective of language, gene...

• Author(s): Jared Greenblatt • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: ArabicThis work is a linguistic description of an obsolescent dialect of Neo-Aramaic. The dialect was originally spoken by Jews residing in the village of Amәdya...

• Author(s): Guus Kroonen • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & Comparative