Historical and comparative linguistics Books
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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
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Unknown A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian or South Indian Family of Languages
Book SynopsisIt also studies its grammar rules, and numerical system, and draws its comparisons with North Indian languages including Sanskrit, Indo-European languages, and Semitic languages. In the domain of Dravidian linguistics, this book remains a respected work today.
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Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project Grammatical Variation in Neo-Assyrian
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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
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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
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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.
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HardPress Publishing Etymology Made Easy by F.E. Bunnett
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Martino Fine Books Language Thought and Reality
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La suerte de los nombres propios léxico y
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Editorial Club Universitario La lengua Vasca originalidad y riqueza de una lengua diferente
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Oxford University Press Inc Beyond Yellow English
Book SynopsisBeyond Yellow English is the first edited volume to examine issues of language, identity, and culture among the rapidly growing Asian Pacific American (APA) population. The distinguished contributors-who represent a broad range of perspectives from anthropology, sociolinguistics, English, and education-focus on the analysis of spoken interaction and explore multiple facets of the APA experience. Authors cover topics such as media representations of APAs; codeswitching and language crossing; and narratives of ethnic identity. The collection examines the experiences of Asian Pacific Americans of different ethnicities, generations, ages, and geographic locations across home, school, community, and performance sites.Trade ReviewThis volume is a valuable collection of scholarly work that moves linguistic anthropological and sociolinguistic approaches to Asian Pacific America beyond the stereotype of the inscrutable, closed off, and unapproachable Asian. This book is a significant move "beyond" the restrictive stereotype of "Yellow English." * The Journal of Language in Society, Volume 39-2010 *Table of ContentsTable of Contents ; Contributors ; Part I: Interactional Positionings of Selves and Identities ; Part II: Discursive Constitutions of Groups and Communities ; Part III: Languages in Contact ; Part V: Educational Institutions and Language Acquisition ; Index
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Oxford University Press Ok
Book SynopsisIt is said to be the most frequently spoken (or typed) word on the planet, more common than an infant''s first word ma or the ever-present beverage Coke. It was even the first word spoken on the moon. It is OK - the most ubiquitous and invisible of American expressions, one used countless times every day. Yet few of us know the secret history of OK - how it was coined, what it stood for, and the amazing extent of its influence.Allan Metcalf here traces the evolution of America''s most popular word, writing with brevity and wit, and ranging across American history with colourful portraits of the nooks and crannies in which OK survived and prospered. He describes how OK was born as a lame joke in a newspaper article in 1839, used as a supposedly humorous abbreviation for oll korrect (i.e, all correct), but should have died a quick death, as most clever coinages do.However OK was swept along in a nineteenth-century fad for abbreviations, was appropriated by a presidential campaign (one ofTrade Reviewwonderfully crafted biography of the world's hardest working word. * Sunday Telegraph *Ok provides a beguiling perspective upon linguistic serendipity * The Independent *intriguing. * Mail on Sunday 2 *Table of ContentsPrologue: The Oddity of OK Chapter 1: The Joke Chapter 2: Old Kinderhook Chapter 3: The Jackson Myth Chapter 4: Telegraphic OK Chapter 5: The Business of OK Chapter 6: OK in Literature Chapter 7: Presidential "okeh" Chapter 8: Okey-Dokey Chapter 9: The Practical OK Chapter 10: The Philosophical OK: Twentieth Century Chapter 11: The Psychological OK Chapter 12: The Philosophical OK: Twenty-first Century Epilogue: OK Around the World
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Oxford University Press PROT INDO EUR TO PROT GERM 2E HOENG C 1 A
Book SynopsisThis book describes the earliest reconstructable stages of the prehistory of English, focusing specifically on linguistic structure. It outlines the grammar of Proto-Indo-European, considers the changes by which one dialect of that prehistoric language developed into Proto-Germanic, and provides a detailed account of the grammar of Proto-Germanic. In the course of his exposition Don Ringe draws on a long tradition of work on many languages, including Hittite, Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, Slavic, Gothic, and Old Norse. This second edition has been significantly revised to provide a more in-depth account of Proto-Indo-European, with further exploration of disputed points; it has also been updated to include new developments in the field, particularly in the reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European verb and nominal inflection. The author also reconsiders some of his original approaches to specific linguistic changes and their relative chronology based on his recent research. This new edition Trade ReviewReview from previous edition This is without any doubt a major work in the field of Indo-European linguistics and will be of utmost relevance in English linguistics. We have a large number of Histories of the English Language, but in none of them is the pre-history of English dealt with in comparable depth. * Professor Alfred Bammesberger, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt *A highly welcome and useful book for scholars and advanced students of comparative Indo-European and Germanic linguistics and the history of English. * David Stifter, Linguist List *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of abbreviations Note on transcription 1: Introduction 2: Proto-Indo-European 3: The development of Proto-Germanic 4: Proto-Germanic References Index
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Oxford University Press LANG SCRIP CHIN TEXTS EAST ASIA C
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Linguistic Strategies in Daoist Zhuangzi and Chan Buddhism The Other Way of Speaking
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Old Japanese A Phonetic Reconstruction
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Historical Linguistics
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Taylor & Francis Ltd English Phonetics TwentiethCentury Developments
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Language Evolution
Book SynopsisThis new four-volume collection, part of Routledgeâs Critical Concepts in Linguistics series, assembles the most important scholarly writings concerning the biological evolution of language, particularly those incorporating a Darwinian view of evolution. Including excerpts from ancient sources such as the Bible, Plato, and Aristotle, along with classical sources like Condillac, Rousseau, and Herder, Language Evolution provides an overview of the intensive debate on language evolution following the publication of Darwinâs Origin of Species.It also outlines each of the major conceptions of protolanguage and examines the evolution of our human capacity for speech, as well as focusing on the modern (mostly post-1990) literature attempting to reconcile the Chomskyean approach to linguistics with a Darwinian evolutionary viewpoint. In addition, it incorporates the new insights and approaches based on computer modelling, which have played a growing role in the recent literature.This is an important resource for those scholars interested in possessing a deeper, historically informed overview of the immense literature on this topic. The collection will also, of course, provide unified and ready access to a selection of the most important papers from the 1990s onward. It is supplemented with a full index, and includes an introduction to each volume, newly written by the editors, which places the assembled materials in their historical and intellectual context.
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Taylor & Francis A History of the Spanish Language through Texts
Book SynopsisA History of the Spanish Language through Texts examines the evolution of the Spanish language from the Middle Ages to the present day. Pountain explores a wide range of texts from poetry, through newspaper articles and political documents, to a Bunuel film script and a love letter. With keypoints and a careful indexing and cross-referencing system this book can be used as a freestanding history of the language independently of the illustrative texts themselves.Table of ContentsList of Keypoints. List of Illustrations. List of Maps. Chapter 1. Preliminaries. Chapter 2. Latin and Romance. Chapter 3. Early Romance. Chapter 4. Al-Andalus. Chapter 5. Early Literature in Castilian: Dialect Diversity and Mixture. Chapter 6. The Castilian Norm. Chapter 7. Prose Documents in Castilian from the 15th Century. Chapter 8. The Golden Age.: Linguistic Self-Awareness. Chapter 9: The Golden Age. Chapter 10. The Enlightenment. Chapter 11. Modern Spanish Peninsular. Chapter 12. Latin America. Chapter 13. US Spanish. Chapter 14. Judeo-Spanish. Chapter 15. Caló. Chapter 16. The African Connection. Chapter 17. Creoles and Contact Vernaculars. Glossary of Linguistic Terms. Bibliography. Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd English Corpus Linguistics
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Taylor & Francis The English Language
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Pidgin and Creole Languages Longman Linguistics Library
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Taylor & Francis The History of the English Language A Source Book Second Edition
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Composite Predicates in Late Modern English
Book SynopsisThis volume provides a concise overview of the diachronic development of composite predicates (CPs) in Late Modern English, offering clearer evidence of ongoing language change using data less readily available in other corpora.While previous scholarship on CPs exists from a synchronic perspective, this book is the first to focus exclusively on Late Modern English with a diachronic approach to CPs, understood as phraseological verbs consisting of a verb and a deverbal noun or this combination with a preposition, such as to ask a question or to take hold of. The volume builds on real-life spoken data encompassing the proceedings of the Old Bailey at the Central Criminal Court in London, which predate the invention of audio-recording technology. Leone explores syntactic and semantic changes and the role performed by phenomena associated with grammaticalization, lexicalization and idiomatization in this period from both quantitative and qualitat
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Cambridge University Press Quantity Adjustment
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Cambridge University Press English Historical Metrics
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Cambridge University Press Lexical Phonology and the History of English
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Cambridge University Press Writing and the Origins of Greek Literature
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Cambridge University Press Australian Languages
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Cambridge University Press Linguistics and the Formal Sciences
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Cambridge University Press Linguistic Evolution Through Language Acquisition
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Cambridge University Press A Sociolinguistic History of Parisian French
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Cambridge University Press English Auxiliaries Structure and History 66 Cambridge Studies in Linguistics Series Number 66
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Cambridge University Press Quantity in Historical Phonology Icelandic and Related Cases 30 Cambridge Studies in Linguistics Series Number 30
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Cambridge University Press Analysing Older English
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Cambridge University Press Investigations in Sociohistorical Linguistics
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Cambridge University Press The Elements of Hittite
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Cambridge University Press TwentiethCentury English
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Cambridge University Press NineteenthCentury English Stability and Change Studies in English Language
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Cambridge University Press IndoScythian Studies Being Khotanese Texts Volume VII 7
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Cambridge University Press IndoScythian Studies Being Khotanese Texts Volume VI Khotanese Texts 06
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Cambridge University Press IndoScythian Studies Volume V
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Cambridge University Press Language and Conquest in Early Modern Ireland
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Cambridge University Press Conrad Language and Narrative
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Cambridge University Press Investigations in Sociohistorical Linguistics Stories of Colonisation and Contact
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Cambridge University Press The Elements of Hittite
Book SynopsisHittite is the earliest attested Indo-European language and was the language of a state which flourished in Asia Minor in the second millennium BC. This introductory course comprehensively introduces Hittite grammar in ten lessons and provides ample exercises both in transliteration and in cuneiform.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Lesson 1; Lesson 2; Lesson 3; Lesson 4; Lesson 5; Lesson 6; Lesson 7; Lesson 8; Lesson 9; Lesson 10; Appendix 1. Paradigms; Appendix 2. Sources of exercise material; Appendix 3. Index of syntax and phonological phenomena; Appendix 4. Cuneiform sign list; Appendix 5. Glossary.
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Cambridge University Press Old English Phonology 14 Cambridge Studies in Linguistics Series Number 14
Book SynopsisA detailed study of Old English, taking as its point of departure the 'standard theory' of generative phonology as developed by Chomsky and Halle. Dr Lass and Dr Anderson set out all the main phonological processes of Old English and against their larger historical background (including subsequent developments in the history of English). They propose many fresh solutions to long-standing problems in the history and structure of Old English. The result is an extensive and sophisticated treatment of this subject. An important theory is examined against a well-studied body of linguistic knowledge, and is partly validated and partly revised. The book will be important for all linguistics and historians of English and Indo-European.Table of ContentsList of abbreviations; Preface; Preliminaries: The Feature Framework; 1. 'Ablaut' in the Old English strong verb; 2. The Anglo-Frisian brightening; 3. Two processes of vowel epenthesis: breaking and back umlaut; 4. Palatalisation and I-umlaut; 5. Strengthening and weakening of obstruents: fricative voicing assignment, continuancy adjustment, and some related processes; 6. Epilogue: historical implications: the phonological inventories: some afterthoughts on theory; Appendices; References; Subject and author index; Word index.
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