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This introduction to the descriptive and historical linguistics of the Papuan languages of New Guinea provide an accessible account of one of the richest and most diverse linguistic situations in the world. The Papuan languages number over 700 (or 20 per...

Germanic - one of the largest sub-groups of the Indo-European language family - comprises 37 languages with an estimated 470 million speakers worldwide. This book presents a comparative linguistic survey of the full range of Germanic languages, both...

This book explores the Linguistic Landscapes of ten French and Italian Mediterranean coastal cities. The authors address the national languages, the regional languages and dialects, migrant languages, and the English language, as they collectively mark...

No detailed description available for "Studies in Romance Linguistics".Book InformationISBN 9783110131307Author Osvaldo JaeggliFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint De Gruyter MoutonPublisher De GruyterWeight(grams) 760g

The indispensable resource for Kurdish Kurmanji!Kurmanji,also known as Northern Kurdish, is the most widely spoken Kurdish language withapproximately 16 million speakers worldwide. The Kurds are spread across thecountries of Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Syria, as...

Mainland Southeast Asia is one of the most fascinating and complex cultural and linguistic areas in the world. This book provides a rich and comprehensive survey of the history and core systems and subsystems of the languages of this fascinating region...

In this accessible survey, two leading specialists introduce a broad range of topics in Korean linguistics, including the general historical background of the language, its phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and...

Intended as a tool for new students of Spanish linguistics or general linguistics, this dictionary offers concise definitions and examples of linguistics terminology and its branches in both Spanish and English. The dictionary is presented in two main...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887276835Author Liu YuehuaFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Cheng & Tsui CompanyPublisher Cheng & Tsui CompanyWeight(grams) 750g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942544067Author Paul SandrockFormat PaperbackPage Count 22Imprint American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)Publisher American Council...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788772883717Author Tim CauderyFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Aarhus University PressPublisher Aarhus University Press

This book is a study of modern Bengali words based on the data obtained from a corpus of written texts. The author has used all kinds of data, information and examples from the Bengali corpus to shape up this text. He has made an empirical attempt to...

The most up-to-date resource for those interested in the linguistic and cultural heritage of the Anishinaabe, A Concise Dictionary of Minnesota Ojibwe contains more than 7,000 of the most frequently used Ojibwe words. Presented in Ojibwe-English and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788772898230Author Rolf HesseFormat HardbackPage Count 141Imprint Museum Tusculanum PressPublisher Museum Tusculanum PressWeight(grams) 346g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788772898445Author Karl G. PrasseFormat PaperbackPage Count 515Imprint Museum Tusculanum PressPublisher Museum Tusculanum PressWeight(grams) 1335g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780260330925Author George Gordon ByronFormat HardbackPage Count 246Imprint Forgotten BooksPublisher Forgotten BooksWeight(grams) 485gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

A la Francaise is designed to help English speakers to overcome numerous and common difficulties in their study of French. An impressive collection of varied mistakes made by students at both intermediate and advanced levels has shown that certain...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783895009594Author Abdullah IncekanFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Dr Ludwig ReichertPublisher Dr Ludwig ReichertWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm)...

Drawn from the Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, with the emphasis on the expressions used or coined before 1914.About the AuthorEric PartridgeBook InformationISBN 9780367605308Author Eric PartridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 1066Imprint...

This revised edition of Spoken Cree by C. Douglas Ellis is the second of three levels in a complete Cree language course, based on the "N" and "L" dialects spoken west of James Bay. Level II teaches Cree language by focussing on typical day-to-day...

Most philosophical theories of language have assumed that statements (products of assertion) and propositions (objects of belief) are the same things. John L. Pollock denies this, maintaining that even when the speaker is perfectly sincere, what he is...

There is great interest in recent scholarship in the study of metropolitan cultures in India as evident from the number of books that have appeared on cities such as Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata. Though Hyderabad has a rich archive of history...

Manual of Business French is the most comprehensive, single-volume reference handbook for students and professionals using French.Designed for all users, no matter what level of language skill, this manual comprises five parts:* A 6000-word, two-way...

Manual of Business German is the most comprehensive, single-volume reference handbook for students and professionals using foreign languages.Designed for all users, no matter what level of language skill, it comprises five parts:* A 6000-word, two-way...

Current Research in Puerto Rican Linguistics is an edited collection of original contributions which explores the idiosyncratic grammatical properties of Puerto Rican Spanish. The book focuses on the structural aspects of linguistics, analysed with a...

NihonGO NOW! Level 2 is an intermediate level courseware package that takes a performed-culture approach to learning Japanese. This approach balances the need for an intellectual understanding of structural elements with multiple opportunities to...

Demonstratives and Grammaticalization offers an in-depth analysis of the demonstrative system in Turkish.This book provides the first comprehensive analysis dealing with both the synchronic variations in Turkish demonstratives and their grammatical...

Though recognized in the latter part of the 19th century as "the greatest Orientalist in Britain," the Geneva-born Anglican priest, Solomon Caesar Malan (1812-1894) was such an extraordinary person that he has defied any scholarly person to write a...

English has a considerable history in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and present-day English has a significant influence on the vocabulary of modern German. Examining the ongoing influence of English on German in these countries, Raymond Hickey leads...

Exploring creole studies from a linguistic, historical, and socio-cultural perspective, this study advances our knowledge of the subject by using a cohesive approach to provide new theoretical insights into language shift, language acquisition and...

South Africa is a country characterised by great linguistic diversity. Large indigenous languages, such as isiZulu and isiXhosa, are spoken by many millions of people, as well as the languages with European roots, such as Afrikaans and English, which are...

Singlish is the colloquial variety of English spoken in Singapore. It has sparked much public debate, but so far the complex question of what Singlish really is and what it means to its speakers has remained obscured. This important work explores some of...

This concise textbook provides students with an engaging and thorough overview of the history of Spanish and its development from Latin. Presupposing no prior knowledge of Latin or linguistics, students are provided with the background necessary to...

Modern Persian begins with the teaching of the Persian alphabet. It aims to provide the student with the necessary skills for social interaction, as well as a basis for the study of modern literature. The course consists of seventeen units and favours...

Le volume se compose de quatre parties: approches theoriques et methodologiques; pluralite linguistique et pratiques langagieres; enjeux glottopolitiques de l'education bi-/plurilingue; approches didactiques du bi-/plurilinguisme.About the AuthorJurgen...

Written entirely in Spanish by instructors with years of experience, this textbook is a comprehensive guide to essay writing in Spanish. It provides advanced students of Spanish with the necessary tools to write fluently and effectively, both developing...

First published in 1908, this volume emerged in the midst of the British Protectorate of Sierra Leone. The author, F.W.H. Migeod, studied the Mende nation in eastern Sierra Leone and followed the example of the grammar (1882) and vocabulary (1884)...

Very little attention has hitherto been paid by authors generally to those works forming part of Hebrew literature, in which much of delightful satire is predominant. The object of this volume, therefore, is to make the reader familiar with the contents...

This book is collections of essays on Italian literature, language, history, culture, politics, art, and media during 1340-1520. It discusses the Boccaccio's assumption within the text of the Teseida, Decameron and De mulieribus.About the AuthorRhiannon...

This book develops both a methodology that aims at clarifying what we mean when we refer to 'reception' and a theoretical alternative to prevalent notions of reception. It argues the necessity to distinguish among fields of investigation: art, literary...