Category: Linguistics

By Bernard Comrie

A common account of the languages of the Soviet Union, the most varied multinational and multilingual states on this planet in addition to probably the most very important. There are a few one hundred thirty languages spoken within the USSR, belonging to 5 major households and varying from Russian, that is the 1st language of approximately 130,000,000 humans, to Aluet, spoken merely through ninety six (in the 1970 census). Dr Comrie has basic goals. First, he provides crucial structural beneficial properties of those languages, their genetic relationships and category and their specific typological beneficial properties. Secondly, he examines the social and political heritage to using functioning of a number of the languages in a multilingual country. the quantity should be of value and curiosity to linguists and to these with a broader specialist curiosity within the Soviet Union.

By Mony Almalech

By Maarten Cornelis van den Toorn

By Hermann

By J. K. Chambers, Natalie Schilling

Reflecting a mess of advancements within the research of language swap and version over the past ten years, this commonly up to date moment variation includes a variety of new chapters and continues to be the authoritative reference quantity on a middle learn zone in linguistics.

• a completely revised and increased version of this acclaimed reference paintings, which has validated its attractiveness in response to its unrivalled scope and intensity of study during this interdisciplinary field

• comprises seven new chapters, whereas the remaining have passed through thorough revision and updating to include the newest learn and replicate various advancements within the field

• Accessibly established via subject, masking subject matters together with info assortment and overview, linguistic constitution, language and time, language touch, language domain names, and social differentiation

• Brings jointly an skilled, foreign editorial and contributor workforce to presents an unrivalled studying, instructing and reference instrument for researchers and scholars in sociolinguistics

By S Robert Gnanamony

By Roger Berry

Routledge English Language Introductions disguise middle components of language research and are one-stop assets for students.

Assuming no earlier wisdom, books within the sequence provide an available assessment of the topic, with actions, research questions, pattern analyses, commentaries and key readings - all within the similar quantity. The cutting edge and versatile 'two-dimensional' constitution is equipped round 4 sections - creation, improvement, exploration and extension - which supply self-contained phases for research. each one subject is usually learn throughout those sections, permitting the reader to construct progressively at the wisdom gained.

English Grammar:

• presents the elemental options and keyword phrases of English grammar in a transparent and systematic method
• encourages readers to judge severely the information they have already got, really in components which are frustrating for them as newbies, and to accumulate and belief their very own intuitions in regards to the language
• uses various foreign real texts to demonstrate suggestions and theories, from resources similar to newspapers, novels and educational texts discussing English grammar
• is observed through a significant other web site that includes audio documents of real spoken English, and extra activities.

Written through an skilled instructor and researcher, this available textbook is an important source for all scholars of English language and linguistics.

By Eugene H. Casad, Gary B. Palmer

This paintings applies the idea of cognitive linguistics to the research of various grammatical phenomena in non-Indo-European languages. In prior experiences of languages from non-Indo-European households, cognitive linguistics has been remarkably worthwhile in explaining non-prototypical buildings in addition to extra universal ones. The ebook expands that attempt right into a new set of households and languages.

By Carol L. Schmid

Very important features of the historical past of language within the usa stay shrouded in fantasy and legend. The proposal of "one state, one language" is a part of the idealized historical past of the U.S., even supposing in its brief background it has most likely been host to extra bilingual humans than the other state on the earth. Language is greater than a way of verbal exchange. It brings into play a whole variety of stories and attitudes towards lifestyles. in addition, language is a effective symbolic factor since it hyperlinks strength and political claims of possession with mental calls for for staff worthy. How humans belonging to various language and cultural groups reside jointly within the similar political neighborhood and the way political and structural tensions come up to divide them alongside language strains, are questions addressed within the Politics of Language. This booklet analyzes the historic historical past and up to date controversy over language within the usa and compares it to 2 reputable multilingual societies: Canada and Switzerland. it is accessibility as a survey of this subject makes it excellent for classes in linguistics, political technological know-how, and sociology.

By Seth L. Sanders

"The Invention of Hebrew" is the 1st ebook to strategy the Bible in mild of contemporary findings at the use of the Hebrew alphabet as a planned and significant selection. Seth L. Sanders connects the Bible's certain linguistic shape - writing down an area spoken language - to a cultural wish to converse on to humans, summoning them to affix a brand new neighborhood that the textual content itself helped name into being. Addressing the folk of Israel via a vernacular literature, Hebrew texts received the facility to handle their viewers as a public. via evaluating Biblical records with similar historical texts in Hebrew, Ugaritic, and Babylonian, this publication info exact ways that Hebrew used to be a powerfully self-conscious political language. Revealing the iconic political stakes of Biblical writing, "The Invention of Hebrew" demonstrates how Hebrew assumed and promoted a resource of strength formerly unknown in written literature: 'the people' because the protagonist of faith and politics.