Kategoria BISAC: Language Arts & Disciplines >> Linguistics - Historical & Comparative

Problems and Perspectives- Studies in the Modern French Language looks at a number of interesting or problematic areas in the phonology, morphology, syntax and lexis of the French language and encourages the reader to think critically about different ways of approaching, describing and explaining these issues or data.
The book is divided into two parts- the first section is a preliminary to, and contextualises, the discussion of the more specialised topics of the second part. Part two presents problematic and controversial areas in the description and analysis of the...

Mankind has a distinct advantage over other terrestrial species: we talk to one another. But how did we acquire the most advanced form of communication on Earth? Daniel L. Everett, a "bombshell" linguist and "instant folk hero" (Tom Wolfe, Harper's), provides in this sweeping history a comprehensive examination of the evolutionary story of language, from the earliest speaking attempts by hominids to the more than seven thousand languages that exist today.

Although fossil hunters and linguists have brought us closer to unearthing the true origins of language, Daniel Everett's...

The DAG is the first onomasiological dictionary of Old Gascon. It covers the period from the earliest extant documents to the 17th century, taking into account all relevant idioms and sources (incl. medieval Latin and regional French). From fascicle 12 onwards the dictionary is published with a new, clearer article structure that provides more scope for semantic description and the presentation of idioms and contexts.

Este volumen cubre lagunas en la investigacion linguistica sobre el espanol del siglo XVII, cenido hasta ahora fundamentalmente a obras literarias y autores prestigiosos, en conjuncion con el XVI. Tomando como eje transversal a Cervantes y su legado, estos trabajos comparten la idea de la existencia de un modelo linguistico distinto, que va transformandose, no solo en el plano morfosintactico, sino tambien en el discursivo, y desemboca en el -espanol moderno-. La lengua de este periodo se analiza desde perspectivas de analisis diferentes y una gran variedad de corpus, que logran aproximar...

In the eighteenth century, the British Empire pursued its commercial ambitions across the globe, greatly expanding its colonial presence and, with it, the reach of the English language. During this era, a standard form of English was taught in the British provinces just as it was increasingly exported from the British Isles to colonial outposts in North America, the Caribbean, South Asia, Oceania, and West Africa. Under these conditions, a monolingual politics of Standard English came to obscure other forms of multilingual and dialect writing, forms of writing that were made to appear as...

Explaining the nuts and bolts of grammar presents a special challenge, because - far more than is the case with spelling and punctuation - the subject is burdened with a centuries-old history of educational practice that many will recall as anything but glamorous. One of the world's foremost...

Eine Bestandsaufnahme unseres Wissens uber mittelalterliche und neuzeitliche medizinische Texte und ihre Fachtermini und deren Bedeutungen steht bis heute aus. Dabei sind medizinische Texte des Mittelalters und der Fruhen Neuzeit eine wichtige Quelle, um zum einen das Schreiben uber den Korper, seine Krankheiten und seine Heilung in verschiedenen Phasen der deutschen und europaischen Sprach- und Kulturgeschichte im Hinblick auf die Vergangenheit zu beleuchten. Zum anderen erlaubt die systematische Erforschung der medizinischen Textlandschaft einen Bezug zur Gegenwart, indem...

This fascinating book offers a complete visual of our 26-letter alphabet, beginning with the Egyptian alphabet, continuing with the Semite, Phoenician, Greek and Roman alphabets and leaves us where we are today, with the cursive alphabet.

In the easy-to-follow format of this book, you will witness the emergence of the alphabet and visually see its evolution all the way to the letters used to write today, in both print and cursive throughout the ages