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• Author(s): Aleksandra Jarosz • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyA comprehensive descriptive grammar of a moribund insular variety of Miyako-Ryukyuan, rich in noteworthy typological features. Comparativ...

• Author(s): Liesbrth Minnaard • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • Subject: English Literature

• 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): Katarzyna Wojtylak • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Dictionaries - GeneralA Grammar of Murui (Bue) by Katarzyna Wojtylak is the first complete description of Murui (Witoto, Huitoto) spoken in Colombia and Peru. ...

• 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): Anja Behnke • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThe volume explores clause-linkage strategies from a cross-linguistic perspective with an emphasis on asyndetic constructions. The data-drive...

• Author(s): Judy Wakabayashi • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Asia - GeneralTranslational Engagements with Asian Languages in Premodern Japan explores a range of Japanese practices used to mediate written and oral encounter...

• 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): 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): 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): Lily Kahn • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: GeneralThis handbook, the first of its kind, includes descriptions of the ancient and modern Jewish languages other than Hebrew, including historical and linguistic ove...

• Author(s): Eva Alcón Soler | Maria-Pilar Safont-Jordà • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralStudies on discourse and language learning originated in the field of general education and they focused on first ...

• Author(s): Elisabetta Ragagnin • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyAn exciting and up-to date book on endangered languages of Northeast Asia both from the emic and etic perspective.

• Author(s): Bozhil Hristov • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyIn this book, Bozhil Hristov investigates the verbal systems of two distantly related Indo-European languages, highlighting similarities as ...

• Author(s): Ramazan Korkmaz • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyEndangered Languages of the Caucasus and Beyond offers the readers a diversity of articles by 19 prominent scholars who address the problem...

• Author(s): Jaap Kamphuis | Egbert Fortuin | Simeon Dekker • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationBoth general linguists and Slavic specialists will find the Slavic verb to be a rich source of linguistic ...

• Author(s): Redouane Djamouri | Christine Lamarre | Julie Lefort • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: GeneralWhat happens when Chinese is shaped by centuries of contact with Mongolic, Tungusic, Turkic, and Tibetic languages? Th...

• Author(s): Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk | Marcin Trojszczak • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsThis volume sheds light on the complex nature of affect expression by investigating its various linguist...

• Author(s): Lily Kahn • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: GeneralThis handbook, the first of its kind, includes descriptions of the ancient and modern Jewish languages other than Hebrew, including historical and linguistic ove...

• Author(s): Jean Baumgarten | Ruth Von Bernuth | Moshe Lavee • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Judaism - Sacred WritingsIn this collaborative volume, the editors examine the role of Judeo-languages in literary, social, relig...

• Author(s): Xiaoning Lu • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Social HistoryIn Moulding the Socialist Subject, Xiaoning Lu discusses how a diversity of film genres, movie star culture, and film exhibition practices contributed t...

• Author(s): Hang Zhang • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - Phonetics & PhonologyIn Second Language Acquisition of Mandarin Chinese Tones, Hang Zhang offers a series of cross-linguistic studies to argue that t...

• Author(s): Elia Dal Corso • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyWhat shapes and magnitude can language loss have in East Asian endangered languages?

• Author(s): Lily Kahn • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Judaism - Rituals & PracticeJewish Languages in Historical Perspective examines key sociolinguistic themes relating to the spoken and written language varieties emp...

• Author(s): Tone Roald • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Criticism & TheoryIn The Subject of Aesthetics Tone Roald develops a psychology of art based on people's descriptions of their own engagement with visual art

• Author(s): Christopher Beckwith • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Asia - GeneralWhile providing unique and detailed information on early Tibeto-Burman languages and their contact and relationship to other languages, this bo...

• Author(s): Annemarie Sorescu-Marinkovic • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis volume investigates the complex relationship between language and identity of the peoples speaking Romance languages in the...

• Author(s): Federico Giusfredi • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyEver since the early 2nd millennium BCE, Pre-Classical Anatolia has been a crossroads of languages and peoples. This book provides a sta...

• Author(s): Benjamin A. Elman • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: GeneralThe authors consider new views of the classical versus vernacular dichotomy that are especially central to the new historiography of China and East Asian...

• Author(s): Lucyna Harmon • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryJerzy Kosinski's viscerally haunting and politically disturbing The Painted Bird finally receives the long overdue fresh scientific perspectiv...