Based on Bernard Comrie's much praisedThe World's Major Languages, this is the first guide in paperback to an important language family. The areas covered include Chinese, Japanese and Sino-Tibetan languages.
Based on Bernard Comrie's much praisedThe World's Major Languages, this is the first guide in paperback to an important language family. The areas cov...
Part of a linguistic series covering all major world languages, this volume contains essays that describe the languages of Eastern Europe, including Russian, Greek, Serbo-Croat, Czech and Slovak, Hungarian, Finnish, Turkish, and other Indo-European, Uralic and Slavonic tongues.
Part of a linguistic series covering all major world languages, this volume contains essays that describe the languages of Eastern Europe, including R...
Part of a linguistic series covering all major world languages, this volume contains essays that describe the languages of South Asia, the Middle East and Africa, including Sanskrit, Persian, Hindi-Urdu, Arabic, Hebrew, Tamil, Swahili and Bantu, Yoruba and the Semitic languages.
Part of a linguistic series covering all major world languages, this volume contains essays that describe the languages of South Asia, the Middle East...
Turkic languages present particularly rich sources of data for the study of language contact, given the number and diversity of languages with which they have been in contact. Many common, false generalisations are laid bare and the methodology used in evaluating particular instances of language contact can also be used with profit by students of languages other than the Turkic.
Turkic languages present particularly rich sources of data for the study of language contact, given the number and diversity of languages with which t...
