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• 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): Lutz Marten • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralFor the whole of the last half-century, most theoretical syntacticians have assumed that knowledge of language is different from the tasks of spe...

• Author(s): Ronnie Cann | Ruth Kempson | Lutz Marten • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralFor the whole of the last half-century, most theoretical syntacticians have assumed that knowledge of language is di...

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

• 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): Cornelius Hasselblatt | Peter Houtzagers | Remco Van Pareren • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - General

• 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): 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): Margarita Jara | Roberto Zariquiey | Pilar M. Valenzuela • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book, the first of its kind, is dedicated to different Spanish varieties spoken in the Amazonia...

• 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): 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): Edward Vajda • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyThis volume presents the up-to-date results of investigations into the Asian origins of the only two languages families of North America, Eska...

• 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): Roberta Facchinetti • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis volume offers a state-of-the-art picture of work undertaken in the field of computer-aided corpus linguistics. While the focus is on...

• Author(s): Alexandra Aikhenvald | R. M. W. Dixon • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyThe volume brings together important essays on syntax and semantics by Aikhenvald and Dixon, highlighting their exper...

• 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): 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): Alan Huffman | Joseph Davis • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyWilliam Diver of Columbia University (1921-1995) critiqued the very roots of traditional and contemporary linguistics and found...

• 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): 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): 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): Egbert Fortuin • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Slavic Languages (Other)This volume, Dutch Contributions to the Fifteenth International Congress of Slavists (Minsk, 2013) presents a comprehensive overview of cur...

• 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): Henk Zeevat • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsAn utterance is normally produced by a speaker in linear time and the hearer normally correctly identifies the speaker intention in linear time...

• Author(s): Alaric Hall | Olga Timofeeva | Ágnes Kiricsi • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: GeneralThe twelve articles in this volume promote the growing contacts between historical linguistics and medieval cultural studies. ...

• 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): de Bao Xu • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: ChineseIn the 1990's, the focus of phonological studies has changed from rule-based analysis to constraint-based analysis. The study of Chinese phonology has also under...

• 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): Matthias Brenzinger | Iwona Kraska-Szlenk • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyThe Body in Language: Comparative studies of Linguistic Embodiment provides new insights into the theory of lingu...

• Author(s): Nicolas Schorer • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyIn The Dura Language: Grammar & Phylogeny Nicolas Schorer provides the definite descriptive account of this poorly documented language ...

• Author(s): Alexandra Aikhenvald | Anne Storch • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyEvery language has a way of talking about seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and touching. In about a quarter of the wor...

• Author(s): Henning Klöter • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyHandwritten in the seventeenth century, the Arte de la lengua chio chiu is the oldest extant grammar of the Chinese vernacular known as Sout...

• Author(s): Frederik Kortlandt • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & Comparative

• 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...