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Author : George L. Campbell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:901112237
Author : George L. Campbell,Gareth King
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781135692568
This second edition of The Routledge Concise Compendium of the World’s Languages has been completely revised to provide up-to-date and accurate descriptions of a wide cross-section of natural-language systems. All cultural and historical notes as well as statistical data for each language have been checked, updated and in many cases expanded. Now offering an even broader range of languages including a greater number of the lesser-known ones, such as Cree, Maltese and Haitian Creole, this new edition of The Routledge Concise Compendium covers a total of 111 languages. Key features include: complete rewriting and systematization of the phonology sections for all languages provision of IPA symbol grids arranged by articulatory feature and by alphabetic resemblance to facilitate use of the new phonology sections expansion of morphology descriptions for all languages provision of new illustrative text samples addition of a glossary of technical terms comparative tables of the numerals 1-10 in all languages covered, and also grouped by family classification by genetic relationship of all languages covered. Using the wealth of recent developments and research in language typology and broadened availability of descriptive data, this new incarnation of The Routledge Concise Compendium brings a much-loved survey emphatically into the twenty-first century for a new generation of readers. The Routledge Concise Compendium of the World’s Languages remains the ideal compact reference for all interested linguistics and professionals alike. Gary King is Series Advisor for the Roultedge Colloquials and the author of numerous books on language and linguistics. He is also UCAS co-ordinator and a lecturer at a large sixth-form college. George L. Campbell worked for the BBC World Service and was a polyglot linguist and translator.
Author : George L. Campbell,Gareth King
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : 0415478413
Over 100 languages are described, including many minor languages such as Basque, Navajo and Zulu. Articles are ordered alphabetically and each has a standardised structure for ease of reference. Technical terminology is used only where necessary.
Author : George L. Campbell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 719 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781134720262
From Afrikaans to Zulu, almost 100 languages from the comprehensive Compendium of the World's Languages are featured in this new concise version. Many articles have been revised. The Concise Compendium presents a detailed comparative study of the major and many of the lesser known languages of the world. Included are representatives of all language families, with samples of Amerindian, such as Navajo and of African languages, such as Fulani and Nama; languages of politically independent groups in the former USSR, like Uzbek and Belorussian; those of political pressure groups, such as Breton and Catalan and significant community/ethnic languages, including Amharic and Vietnamese. Throughout, the treatment is factual and jargon-free. Articles are ordered alphabetically and each has a standard structure for ease of reference: * general historical and sociolinguistic introduction * writing system * sound system * grammatical system A passage from the Gospel of St. John illustrates each language with a written tradition. These scripts are explained in an appendix at the end of the book. Presents 100 of the world's major languages and representatives of different language groups, politically significant languages and particularly interesting ones.
Author : George L. Campbell
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0415160499
From Afrikaans to Zulu, almost 100 languages are featured in this new concise version of the comprehensive Compendium of the World's Languages. Many articles have been revised in the light of recent scholarship.
Author : George L. Campbell,Gareth King
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367570378
Over 300 of the most important and interesting languages, from all the language-families, are described in this unique work structured for cross linguistic comparison. It includes many special features as well as 41 language-family articles.
Author : George L. Campbell
Publisher : London : Routledge
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024581188
This second edition of George Campbell's astounding survey of world languages has been thoroughly updated, revised, and expanded. It presents a comprehensive cross-section of languages, ranging from the familiar and well-documented to the relatively obscure. Fifteen completely new entries on exotic languages such as Comanche, Shona, and Wotapuri have been added to the more than 300 descriptions of the many forms taken by human speech worldwide. Also included are numerous articles on non-Roman scripts, not featured in the first edition. Dead languages associated with the great cultures of the past--Classical Chinese, Sanskrit, Classical Greek, and Latin--are featured, as well as intriguing isolates like Etruscan and Tangut.
Author : George L. Campbell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : 0415202973
Author : Anatole Lyovin,Brett Kessler,William Ronald Leben
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780195149883
Unique in scope, An Introduction to the Languages of the World introduces linguistics students to the variety of world's languages. Students will gain familiarity with concepts such as sound change, lexical borrowing, diglossia, and language diffusion, and the rich variety of linguistic structure in word order, morphological types, grammatical relations, gender, inflection, and derivation. It offers the opportunity to explore structures of varying and fascinating languages even with no prior acquaintance. A chapter is devoted to each of the world's continents, with in-depth analyses of representative languages of Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, and America, and separate chapters cover writing systems and pidgins and creoles. Each chapter contains exercises and recommendations for further reading. New to this edition are eleven original maps as well as sections on sign languages and language death and revitalization. For greater readability, basic language facts are now organized in tables, and language samples follow international standards for phonetic transcription and word-by-word glossing. There is an instructor's manual available for registered instructors on the book's companion website.
Author : George L. Campbell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 970 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0415202965
Many languages, particularly those which have achieved literary status, have been studied in great detail, and specialized descriptions of these are plentiful. What has not been so readily available, however, is a general survey covering a wide spectrum of the world's languages on a comparative basis. It is this kind of comparative cross-section of languages, ranging from the familiar and well-documented to the relatively obscure, that the Compendium of the World's Languages presents.
Author : Marc van Oostendorp
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 3183 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781405184236
Available online or as a five-volume print set, The Blackwell Companion to Phonology is a major reference work drawing together 124 new contributions from leading international scholars in the field. It will be indispensable to students and researchers in the field for years to come. Key Features: Full explorations of all the most important ideas and key developments in the field Documents major insights into human language gathered by phonologists in past decades; highlights interdisciplinary connections, such as the social and computational sciences; and examines statistical and experimental techniques Offers an overview of theoretical positions and ongoing debates within phonology at the beginning of the twenty-first century An extensive reference work based on the best and most recent scholarly research – ideal for advanced undergraduates through to faculty and researchers Publishing simultaneously in print and online; visit www.companiontophonology.com for full details Additional features of the online edition (ISBN: 978-1-4443-3526-2): Powerful searching, browsing, and cross-referencing capabilities, including Open URL linking, with all entries classified by key topic, subject, place, people, and period For those institutions already subscribing to Blackwell Reference Online, it offers fully integrated and searchable content with the comprehensive Handbooks in Linguistics series
Author : Mark Davies,Dee Gardner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1139 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781134008926
First published in 2010. A Frequency Dictionary of Contemporary American English: word sketches, collocates, and thematic lists is an invaluable tool for all learners of American English, providing a list of the 5,000 most frequently used words in the language.
Author : Philip Baldi,Pietro U. Dini
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1588115844
This collection of twenty-nine research papers is dedicated to the eminent Balticist, Slavicist and Indo-Europeanist, William R. Schmalstieg in commemoration of his seventy-fifth birthday. It contains contributions by specialists of mainly Baltic and Indo-European linguistics which are reflective of Schmalstieg's own scholarly interests over the decades of his career, including technical aspects of Baltic and Indo-European phonology, morphology and syntax, etymology, language universals, the history of linguistics and the Baltic text tradition. Contributors include prominent scholars from the United States and Europe, both east and west. All papers are in English, and all linguistic material in less commonly known languages is provided with an English translation, making the contents accessible to a wider audience of readers.
Author : Marlis Hellinger,Heiko Motschenbacher
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027268860
This is the fourth volume of a comprehensive reference work which provides systematic descriptions of the manifestations of gender in languages of diverse areal, typological and socio-cultural affiliations. To the 30 languages already analysed in previous volumes, Vol. 4 adds another 12 languages whose gendered structures have received little or no academic attention in the past. Again, the collection includes a broad spectrum of languages: It contains languages with and without grammatical gender, a language with noun classification and a classifier language; larger national languages as well as smaller languages with minority status; and, of course, members of diverse language families, i.e. Indo-European as well as Finno-Ugrian, Iroquois, Tai-Kadai and Niger-Congo. The volume illustrates the tremendous variation found in the area of gender representation across languages. At the same time, it will provide the much-needed material required for an explicitly comparative approach to linguistic manifestations of gender.
Author : Bernard Comrie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1025 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0415045169
* Covers historical development, grammar, sound system, writing system and sociological factors of the world's major languages and language families * Comprehensive index of languages for ease of access * Written by internationally recognized specialists in each language * Includes an introductory survey `This 1000 plus page reference work would certainly be a useful and impressive acquisition to any linguist's bookshelf ... It is a veritable mine of knowledge concerning language knowledge, and anyone with an interest in this field is bound to find the book a fascinating source of information.' - Language Monthly `This work has a rare combination of virtues ... it can be recommended as a useful work of reference to which contributions have been made by a large team of scholars.' - Journal of Linguistics
