Historical and comparative linguistics Books
John Benjamins Publishing Co Investigating Language Isolates
Book SynopsisLanguage isolates provide unique insights into human history and linguistic diversity. Nevertheless, isolates have been studied less exhaustively than non-isolates. The eleven papers gathered in this volume provide new methodological tools in order to better understand isolates, including a detailed, in-depth, up-to-date discussion of what it means to be a language isolate and the criteria by which languages should be classified as isolate. The book also provides a series of techniques, some refined on the basis of former literature, and others new, in order to recover the histories of language isolates. In addition, the papers in this volume advance our knowledge about each of the individual languages studied here, which are, for the most part, endangered and under-documented. This book will appeal to a broad audience spanning typologists, historical linguists, descriptive linguists, and teachers of linguistics.
£112.10
De Gruyter Indices
Table of ContentsFrontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- A. SUBJECT INDEX -- B. INDEX OF PROPER NAMES AND OF TERMS DERIVED FROM PROPER NAMES -- C. INDEX OF AUTHORS AND PASSAGES -- D. INDEX OF WORDS AND FORMS DISCUSSED OR MENTIONED
£95.00
Peeters Publishers Grecisms in Ancient Armenian
Book SynopsisThis book is a systematic presentation of the linguistic features in all the published Ancient Armenian texts, mainly belonging to the so-called Hellenizing School of translations (late fifth - early eighth century), which are explained by Greek influence. These features include various types of lexical, morphological and syntactical Grecisms. Many of them are also characteristic of 'pre-Hellenizing' translations; a few examples of some of them are found in the early classical translations from Greek. In all cases the corresponding passages of the Greek originals (if extant) are cited. Most of the sections concluded with examples of the classical translation practice of the corresponding linguistic features without any Greek influence. In an appendix, various features of Latinizing Armenian (seventeenth century) are traced back to Hellenizing Armenian.
£69.00
Peeters Publishers Autour De La Langue Arabe: Etudes Presentees a
Book SynopsisLes themes et sujets du present volume d'hommages que lui dedient plusieurs de ses collegues et amis, correspondent au profil a la fois focalise et varie de Jacques Grand'Henry, Professeur emerite d'etudes arabes a l'Universite catholique de Louvain. Les domaines couverts sont notamment ceux de la dialectologie arabe descriptive ou historique, de la linguistique historique et comparative, du moyen arabe ou de l'arabe melange tel qu'on le trouve dans les textes medievaux et dans les documents modernes (textes litteraires ou enonces oraux), et de la philologie arabe sous ses differents aspects. Ce volume contient des contributions de: Frederic Bauden, Lidia Bettini, Giovanni Canova, Joseph Chetrit, David Cohen, Werner Diem, Madiha Doss, Bruno Halflants, Clive Holes, Jerome Lentin, Xavier Luffin, Gabriel M. Rosenbaum, Catherine Taine-Cheikh, Andrzej Zaborski et Liesbeth Zack.
£75.93
Peeters Publishers A Berichtigungsliste of Demotic Documents. C.
Book SynopsisTo complement the text-based organization of the emendations and corrections listed in the Demotic Berichtigungsliste vols. A-B, this volume provides the Indexes of Rejected and Adopted Readings. These enable the reader to search for individual lexemes, be they words, names of gods or private persons, toponyms, titles, or numerals. In an additional Index all randomly published texts, i.e. texts published in periodicals and volumes of miscellaneous studies (Festschriften, Proceedings of Congresses and Colloquia, etc.), are listed under their inventory numbers in order to enable the reader to ascertain the heading under which a given text can be found.
£72.00
Peeters Publishers Semitic Linguistics in Historical Perspective
Book SynopsisThe present work is conceived as a companion volume to the author's Semitic Languages. Outline of a Comparative Grammar. Its purpose is to show the birth and development of Semitic linguistics in broad lines, but also to pay a closer attention to languages which have played a minor role in the Comparative Grammar, while they are actively studied at present, viz. Middle Aramaic, Mandaic, Neo-Aramaic. Suggestions are also made for a renewed research on some conjugation forms in Old Aramaic, Classical Hebrew, Ugaritic, Epigraphic Southern Arabian, also Beja, whose links with Semitic are stronger than often assumed. Attention is paid to the existence of a "continued" aspect beside the "performed" one and the "not (yet) performed", also to the relations between Old Egyptian and Semitic, especially in the question of the correspondence of the consonants in earlier periods. Finally, the traces of an ergative grammatical system are underscored, not only in Semitic, but even more in Libyco-Berber, the Afro-Asiatic phylum which is nearest to Semitic, and closer attention is paid to research in the field of Proto-Semitic roots, apparently monosyllabic.
£95.00
Peeters Publishers Armenian, Hittite, and Indo-European Studies: A
Book SynopsisJos J.S. Weitenberg, Professor of Armenian Studies at Leiden University (1994-2009), co-founder and President of the Association Internationale des Études Arméniennes, was a scholar of global standing in Hittite, Armenian and Indo-European linguistics. The twenty-three studies by colleagues and former students gathered in this volume reflect some of the depth and breadth of Weitenberg’s scholarship: Hittite and Anatolian, to which Weitenberg made a classic contribution with Die hethitischen u-Stämme (1984), and Indo-European etymologies. Armenian dialectology is well represented, as are contributions to wider Armenian culture, and the reception of Greek literary culture in Armenian. Further studies are devoted to digital preparation of critical editions, the relationship between master and pupil as well as the Armenian reception and interpretation of Biblical and apocryphal material, to which Weitenberg contributed in Eusèbe d'Émèse. Commentaire de la Genèse. Texte arménien de l'édition de Venise [1980]. Fragments grecs et syriaques. Avec traductions, together with Françoise Petit and Lucas Van Rompay (2011).
£90.00
Peeters Publishers L'évolution du système verbal persan (Xe-XVIe
Book SynopsisLe persan est seule des langues iraniennes dont on puisse suivre l'histoire depuis son ancêtre le vieux perse (552-350 avant J.-C.) jusqu'à nos jours. Les études diachroniques sont néanmoins rares: on considère souvent que le persan a peu changé depuis sa renaissance littéraire au IXe siècle. S'il est vrai que le persan a moins évolué depuis Firdousi (Xe-XIe siècles) que le français depuis Chrétien de Troyes, les changements qu'il a connus sont pourtant loin d'être mineurs. Et le secteur de la langue qui a connu le plus de changements est le système verbal, objet de ce livre. S'appuyant sur un corpus de textes persans et judéo-persans, dont des manuscrits autographes, cet ouvrage étudie les questions relatives au temps, à l'aspect et au mode, du Xe au XVIe siècles. Des faits de langue sont comparés à ceux d'autres langues indo-européennes, mais aussi de langues africaines, amérindiennes ou sémitiques. Certains d'entre eux s'avèrent être des invariants, par exemple l'affaiblissement du trait de concomitance, ou la disparition et la recréation d'un mode subjonctif.
£58.05
Peeters Publishers L'énantiosémie dans le lexique de l'arabe
Book SynopsisConsidérée au départ, dans les célèbres articles d'Abel (1884-85), relayé par Freud (1910), comme une aberration linguistique qui ne saurait s'expliquer qu'en tant que scorie d'un stade primitif de l'humanité, l'énantiosémie - le fait de signifier une chose et son contraire - n'a pas beaucoup retenu l'attention des chercheurs. C'est pourquoi la première partie du livre s'attache à montrer qu'il s'agit d'un phénomène courant, comme l'avait déjà reconnu Bergier (1837), aussi bien en français qu'en anglais (ch. 1 et 2). Dans la tradition linguistique arabe, au contraire, l'énantiosémie a fait l'objet d'un grand nombre de lexiques spécialisés qui mettent les données à la portée de tous. Ces données sont interprétées ici dans le cadre de la Théorie des matrices et des étymons, qui renouvelle complètement l'organisation du lexique de l'arabe et des langues sémitiques. Il s'ensuit que l'énantiosémie est abordée au niveau des étymons en non plus des racines, ce qui accroît considérablement l'inventaire des cas. On procède à un inventaire des étymons énantiosémiques (ch. 3), avant de proposer quatre types d'explication du phénomène (ch. 4). Les étymons énantiosémiques sont alors présentés sous forme d'un lexique par ordre alphabétique (ch. 5). Enfin un chapitre est consacré aux radicaux qui, pour l'instant, ne sont pas analysables en étymons mais qui constituent néanmoins des mots «à sens contraire» (ch. 6).
£91.00
Peeters Publishers Studies in Aramaic Inscriptions and Onomastics IV
Book SynopsisA large number of Aramaic inscriptions from the 9th century B.C. to the 3rd century A.D. are revisited in this fourth volume of Studiees. After the stele of Tel Dan, the epitaph of Kuttamuwa from Zincirli, and the inscription found at Tepe Qalaichi, Aramaic dockets from Dur-Katlimmu are re-examined, distinguishing a court ruling concerning theft, agreements regarding mortgage, guarantee, indemnity, barley and silver loans, and the particular nsk-loan. Next are examined "cadastral" reports from Idumaea, some inscriptions from Hellenistic times, a divorce bill from the Roman period, several Palmyrene dedications, epitaphs, and honorific inscriptions, as well as some Hatraean texts, mainly related to Adiabene. Finally, Mercionism is considered as background of a saying on "two gods", ascribed to Rabbi Hiyya bar Abba. Like in the preceding volumes of Studies, detailed indexes list the inscriptions, the personal names and the place-names examined, as well as other subjects.
£95.00
Peeters Publishers Le langage de l'émotion: variations linguistiques
Book SynopsisL'expression de nos émotions est-elle la même d'une langue à l'autre? À partir d'un large éventail de langues présentes sur plusieurs continents, cet ouvrage témoigne de la grande variété des modalités d'expression des émotions, en fonction des codes culturels de différentes sociétés à tradition écrite ou orale. Les situations envisagées ici vont de la communication orale spontanée dans des contextes divers aux récits en passant par la création théâtrale et la poésie. S'appuyant sur ces sources multiples, l'ouvrage expose les procédés lexicaux grammaticaux, métaphoriques et discursifs ou encore les représentations graphiques mis en oeuvre pour exprimer les émotions. De nombreux exemples montrent également que la manifestation des émotions reste sous le contrôle des normes sociales. En fonction des situations et des contextes culturels, les émotions, en raison de leur intensité, demandent à être maîtrisées ou sublimées, dans un cadre convenu et par le biais du langage. Langues présentées: anglais, arabe hassaniyya, arabe oriental, arabe saoudien, arabe du Yémen, birman, chinois ancien, dalabon, égyptien ancien, français, gbaya, haoussa, inuit, japonais, kilivila, madourais, maya classique, maya yucatèque, langues océaniennes, langues sudarabiques modernes, tamoul ancien, tamoul moderne, vietnamien, yaqui, yidiche, yulu, zande, zarma.
£80.00
Peeters Publishers Le démonstratif en français: étude de sémantique
Book SynopsisLes démonstratifs font partie des catégories grammaticales qui évoluent le plus dans les langues du monde. C'est particulièrement vrai en français, où ils connaissent une série de changements affectant tous les niveaux linguistiques (morphologie, morphosyntaxe et sémantique). Des origines du français à aujourd'hui, le système des démonstratifs s'est complètement réorganisé. Il s'est structuré autour de deux paradigmes morphosyntaxiques opposés (les pronoms et les déterminants) et s'est partiellement vidé de sa sémantique première. Cet ouvrage porte sur l'évolution sémantique des démonstratifs en français. Il est centré sur la période médiévale (9ème-15ème siècle) et montre par quelles étapes la valeur personnelle héritée du latin laisse place à une valeur plus abstraite, qui distingue les démonstratifs du français de ceux de la majorité des autres langues (romanes ou non). On y insiste sur la dimension pragmatique et cognitive de cette évolution et on s'est fondé sur la méthodologie de corpus. Ce livre s'adresse aux linguistes, enseignants-chercheurs et étudiants, qui sont spécialistes de la linguistique diachronique et du changement sémantique, mais aussi à tous ceux qui s'intéressent à la sémantique référentielle, aux processus anaphoriques et déictiques, et aux évolutions typologiques qui marquent l'histoire du français.
£57.74
Peeters Publishers Essai de détermination des noms de lieux d'une
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Peeters Publishers Het 'Toponymisch Woordenboek van Maurits
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Peeters Publishers Approche comparative des langues
Book SynopsisLe présent volume enseigne, à partir des notions de base de la linguistique historique et de la grammaire comparée, les caractères généraux de la phonologie et de la morphologie indo-européennes. L'exposé ne se limite pas à la description des faits, mais prend en compte leurs rapports réciproques au sein du système de la langue. Comme les formes grammaticales n'occupent pas seulement une place dans un paradigme, mais apparaissent dans des liaisons syntagmatiques, l'ouvrage fait une large part à des citations de textes. Cette Approche comparative des langues indo-européennes comprend trois parties. La première traite du changement linguistique; la deuxième expose la méthode que requièrent la comparaison et la reconstruction; la troisième, qui est la plus développée, a pour objet le système phonique et la flexion qui caractérisent le type linguistique indo-européen.
£74.00
Peeters Publishers Le Langage Dans L'Antiquite: Avec La
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£59.85
Bokforlaget Stolpe Images of Sweden Perspectives on a Nordic country
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£20.00
Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd Bharatiya Bhasha Lok Sarvekshan: [Hindi
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£80.74
Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project Grammatical Variation in Neo-Assyrian
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£69.56
Sunway University Press Voices in Texts and Contexts
Book SynopsisVoices in Texts and Contexts presents different perspectives of 'voice', a concept emerging from language choices, social and cultural phenomena, and psychology. In weaving a tapestry of linguistic experiences, from analyses of language phenomena including localised English to explanations of human behaviour, this book offers insights into how we use language, construct discourse, and express ourselves in light of selected texts and specific contexts.Voice is a fundamental instrument to interpret human behaviour and the mind. In this book, readers will learn about uses of language, or perceptions of uses, and a wide range of messages enshrined therein.This book grew out of the 6th and 7th International Conferences on Discourse and Society organised by the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia. It contains chapters that give special focus to Malaysia at the macro level - such as the naming of disabled people, mastery of the Malay language by migrants, loanwords of Sanskrit origin in Malaysian - as well contributions by invited scholars whose academic interests intersect with the theme of the volume. It is suitable for scholars, educators, researchers, and the interested general public.Table of Contents About the Contributors List of Abbreviations Introduction - Toshiko Yamaguchi Voices of Migrant Workers in a Community of Practice: A Study of Bangladeshi Migrants' Use of the Malay Language in Malaysia - Tanzeel Chowdhury & Lee Luan Ng Voices of Concern Amongst Teachers on the Academic Performance of Foster Children - Cherish How & Jariah Mohd Jan Understanding and Applying the Critical Academic Voice: Bridging Theory and Practice - Stephen J. Hall Multi-Ethnic Voices of Loanwords in the Malaysian Dailies - Manjit Kaur Balwant Singh Voices in the Naming of Disabled Persons in Print Media - Pei Soo Ang & Siang Lee Yeo Voices of Fear: Nightmare Landscapes in Western Fantasy Literature and Fantastic Painting - El?bieta Chrzanowska-Kluczewska Translating English Political Discourse into Arabic: Roles of Translator, Context, and Voice - Kais Amir Kadhim Investigating the Shift in Voice and Rhetoric of United States Administrations Regarding the Middle East 2001–2016 - Mourhaf Kazzaz Critically Negotiating British and American Englishes: Voices from Indonesia - Ribut Wahyudi Index
£38.66
University of the Philippines Press Perspectives on Philippine Languages: Five
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive history of European studies on Philippine languages, this book gives a synoptic view of studies by Dutch, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish linguists from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, placing them in their historical context. It opens up a new field of research in Philippine studies on previously unknown materials in European libraries and archives.
£66.00
Scribo Publications How Yoruba and Igbo Became Different Languages
£35.72
NUS Press One or Two Words: Language and Politics in the
Book SynopsisThe expression "one or two words" is used by the Toraja highlanders of Indonesia to refer euphemistically to their highly elaborate form of political speechmaking. Moving from this understatement, which denotes the meaningfulness of transient acts of speech, One or Two Words offers an analysis of the shifting power relations between centers and peripheries in one of the world's most linguistically diverse countries. Drawing on long-term fieldwork, this book explores how people forge forms of collective belonging to a distinctive locality through the exchange of spoken words, WhatsApp messages, ritual gifts of pigs and buffaloes, and the performance of elaborate political speeches and ritual chants. Aurora Donzelli describes the complex forms of cosmopolitan indigeneity that have emerged in the Toraja highlands during several decades of encounters with a variety of local and international interlocutors. By engaging wider debates on the dynamics of cultural and linguistic change vis-à-vis globalizing influences, the book sheds light onto a hitherto neglected dimension of post-Suharto Indonesia: the recalibration of power relations between national and local languages prompted by recent institutional transformations and the re-articulation of the relations between the central state and its peripheries through acts of speech.Trade Review"Alongside its rich historical and ethnographic accounts of relevance to Indonesianists–for example, of Toraja landholding disputes and post-Suharto regional autonomy reforms–One or Two Words is a valuable contribution to the linguistic anthropological study of sociality constituted through a politics of representation.” * Discourse and Society *Table of Contents List of Maps List of Photographs List of Tables Acknowledgements A Note on Orthography and Transcriptions Introduction Part I: The Politics of Language 1. Subjects of Discourse 2. Narratives of Distinction 3. Grammars of Exchange Part II: The Language of Politics 4. Hierarchies of Language 5. Modes of Power 6. Global Frictions and Local Crossovers Bibliography Index
£38.21
The Chinese University Press Cantonese: Since the Nineteenth Century
Book SynopsisThanks to dedicated efforts of early missionaries, pedagogues, and linguists, we can trace back the evolution of modern Cantonese-one of the most spoken dialects in China, Southeast Asia, and globally-while differences in sounds, words, and grammar distinguish the old from contemporary speech today.Not much was recorded in official documents or gazetteers about the early history of Hong Kong where Cantonese is its most popular dialect. The knowledge of Cantonese is likewise quite limited except for occasional mentions of its culture and customs in writings here and there. For a long time, Cantonese was deemed a local dialect enjoying little prestige among the intellectuals. Its language and its origin remained much of a mystery until the mid-twentieth century when scholars started to accord it with increasing attention.In Cantonese: Since the 19th Century, Cheung offers profound insights to some thirty firsthand century-old materials, with findings that will be useful for ongoing efforts to trace the development of a language that has gone through many rounds of incredible and, at times dramatic, changes during the last two hundred years.
£39.60
Beech Stave Press Inc A Dictionary of Cuneiform Luvian
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