Search results for “[subject: indic-languages]”

• 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): Christine Everaert • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: MiscellaneousThis book sheds light on the complex relationship between Hindi and Urdu. Through a detailed reading of a representative set of 20th century short...

• Author(s): Axel I. Palmér • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyDuring the past decade, the ancient DNA revolution has had a massive impact on the scholarly debates on the origins and dispersals of langua...

• 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): 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): David Elias • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyIn The Tigre Language of Gindaˁ, Eritrea, David L. Elias documents the dialect of the Tigre language that is spoken in the town of Gindaˁ in ea...

• Author(s): A. Engelenhoven • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Oceanic & Australian LanguagesLeti is spoken on the island with the same name near the Indonesian-East Timorese border. This small Austronesian language becam...

• Author(s): Mark W. Post • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyTangam is a critically endangered Trans-Himalayan language spoken by 150 hilltribespeople in the Far Eastern Himalaya. This work presents a cu...

• Author(s): Raoul Zamponi • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThis book provides a detailed grammatical and lexical description of Mak� (M�ku), a language isolate formerly spoken in a remote region of ...

• Author(s): Nicole Baumgarten | Inke Du Bois | Juliane House • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - PragmaticsSubjectivity in Language and in Discourse deals with the linguistic encoding and discursive construction ...

• Author(s): Fengxiang Li | Ela Thurgood | Graham Thurgood • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Southeast Asian Languages (see also Vietnamese)A work that will be of interest to those interested in typology, language history, an...

• Author(s): Michinori Shimoji • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyAn informative typological guide of the Japonic family for linguists of any theoretical persuasions who are not expected to be familiar w...

• 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): Roy Harris | George Wolf • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis collection of readings is complementary to Introduction to Integrational Linguistics (Language & Communication Library, Vol...

• Author(s): Michiel Vaan • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyThis Introduction to Avestan provides a concise grammar of the Avestan language, including information on the language history and short text ...

• Author(s): Kate Beeching | Ulrich Detges • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsA basic property of human language is that it unfolds in time; the left and right margin of discourse units do not behave in ...

• Author(s): Jan Joosten • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: ArabicThe aim of the present work is to make a contribution to the understanding of the inner workings of the Syriac language through a study of one important corpus ...

• Author(s): Michaël Peyrot • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: MiscellaneousVariation and change in Tocharian B is a systematic and extensive treatment of linguistic variants attested in this most archaic of the two Tocharian ...

• Author(s): Paul Jen-Kuei Li | Elizabeth Zeitoun | Rik de Busser • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: GeneralThe Handbook of Formosan Languages provides a systematic and comprehensive coverage of the aboriginal languages of Tai...