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• Author(s): Anatole V. Lyovin • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe only textbook of its kind, An Introduction to the Languages of the World is designed to i...

• Author(s): Thomas Grahame Bailey • Publisher: Legare Street Press • Publisher Imprint: Legare Street Press • BISAC: GeneralThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization ...

• Author(s): Carmen Dagostino | Marianne Mithun | Keren Rice • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis handbook provides broad coverage of the languages indigenous to North America, w...

• Author(s): Anju Saxena • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Southeast Asian Languages (see also Vietnamese)With its many and diverse languages, including some with very long documented histories, its cu...

• Author(s): Javier E. Diaz-Vera • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: RhetoricThis volume offers new insights into figurative language and its pervasive role as a factor of linguistic change. The case stu...

• Author(s): Dieter Stein | Susan Wright • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe notion of subjectivity explored here concerns expression of self and the representa...

• Author(s): Eugene H. Casad | Gary B. Palmer • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThis book applies the theory of cognitive linguistics to the analysis of a variety of grammatica...

• Author(s): Joseph Wright • Publisher: Legare Street Press • Publisher Imprint: Legare Street Press • BISAC: GeneralThis book is a linguistic study of the Gothic language, which was spoken by the Goths in the 4th to 6th centuries AD. The author,...

• Author(s): Holger Gzella • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: ArabicThe breakthrough of the alphabetic script early in the first millennium BCE coincides with the appearance of several new languages and civilizations...

• Author(s): Orrin W. Robinson • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GermanThis accessible introductory reference source surveys the linguistic and cultural background of the earliest known Germanic languages and examines...

• Author(s): Björn Collinder • Publisher: University of California Press • Publisher Imprint: University of California Press • BISAC: MiscellaneousAn Introduction to the Uralic Languages is a comprehensive examination of one of the world's most d...

• Author(s): Uvedale Price • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Ancient Languages - GeneralSir Uvedale Price (1747-1829) most notably concerned himself with questions of the preservation...

• Author(s): Williams F. H. Adelaar | Pieter C. Muysken | Willem F. H. Adelaar • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: GeneralThe Andean and Pacific regions of South America are home to a r...

• Author(s): Thomas Wright • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralThomas Wright (1810-77), antiquarian, archaeologist and historian, wrote many works on all...

• Author(s): Björn Collinder • Publisher: University of California Press • Publisher Imprint: University of California Press • BISAC: MiscellaneousAn Introduction to the Uralic Languages is a comprehensive examination of one of the world's most d...

• Author(s): John T. King • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: GeneralThe present work, a grammar of Dhimal, fills an important void in the documentation of the vast and ramified Tibeto-Burman language family. Dhimal, a little k...

• Author(s): M. M. Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralInformation structure and the organization of oral texts have been rarely studied crosslinguistically. ...

• Author(s): Lorna G. Barrow | Jonathan M. Wooding • Publisher: Sydney University Press • Publisher Imprint: Sydney University Press • BISAC: Europe - IrelandMemory and Foresight in the Celtic World delves deep into the experience of Celtic commu...

• Author(s): Thomas Grahame Bailey • Publisher: Legare Street Press • Publisher Imprint: Legare Street Press • BISAC: GeneralThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization ...

• Author(s): N. J. Enfield • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Southeast Asian Languages (see also Vietnamese)This highly accessible introduction explores the core systems and subsystem...

• Author(s): William Wotton • Publisher: Legare Street Press • Publisher Imprint: Legare Street Press • BISAC: GeneralIn this work, William Wotton provides commentary and notes on George Hickes' treasury of Norse and Anglo-Saxon language and lite...

• Author(s): R. M. W. Dixon • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: MiscellaneousAboriginal people have been in Australia for at least 40,000 years, speaking about 250 languages. Through ex...

• Author(s): Warren Maguire • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - Phonetics & PhonologyWarren Maguire examines Mid-Ulster English as a key case of new dialect formation,...

• Author(s): Thomas Stephens | D. Silvan Evans | B. T. Williams • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing • BISAC: EssaysThe Literature of the Kymry is a critical essay on the history of the language and literatu...

• Author(s): Jaya S. Nagendra • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureThere has been much debate and discussion on the origin of language in human species. The exact time of origin of human language is sti...

• Author(s): Edward Stankiewicz • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Slavic Languages (Other)No detailed description available for "The Slavic Languages".

• Author(s): Javier Caro Reina | Renata Szczepaniak • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - Phonetics & PhonologyThis is the first volume concerned with the phonological typology of syllable and word lan...

• Author(s): Peter Bakker | Yaron Matras • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeThis volume deals with several types of contact languages: pidgins, creoles, mixed l...

• Author(s): Mary R. Haas • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeNo detailed description available for "The Prehistory of Languages".

• Author(s): William Forbes Skene • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralThe historian William Forbes Skene (1809-92), encouraged to learn Gaelic by Sir Wal...

• Author(s): Laurel J. Brinton • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeThe English Language: A Linguistic History surveys the development of the Englis...

• Author(s): Thomas Sheridan • Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions • Publisher Imprint: Gale Ecco, Print Editions • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding ...

• 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): 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): William B. McGregor • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book deals with systems of verb classification in Australian Aboriginal languages, with particular focus on ...

• Author(s): Allison Emery Drake • Publisher: Legare Street Press • Publisher Imprint: Legare Street Press • BISAC: GeneralThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as...