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A Grammar of Central Alaskan Yupik (CAY)
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 280.00The volume is a major grammar of Central Alaskan Yupik (CAY). It is the culmination of the author's linguistic studies done in Alaska and elsewhere since around 1960, with assistance of many native speakers. Central Alaskan Yupik is currently the most vigorous of the nineteen remaining Native Alaskan languages. Descriptive in nature, extensive and... more...
Astrolinguistics
Springer 2012; US$ 99.99In linguistics, one of the main areas of modern research involves the capabilities and possibilities of there being a 'lingua cosmica,' a LINCOS, a universal language that could be used to communicate with non-human intelligences. This book touches on the area of the development and use of a 'lingua universalis' for interstellar communication,... more...
Introduction to Arabic Natural Language Processing
Morgan & Claypool Publishers 2010; US$ 40.00This book provides system developers and researchers in natural language processing and computational linguistics with the necessary background information for working with the Arabic language. The goal is to introduce Arabic linguistic phenomena and review the state-of-the-art in Arabic processing. The book discusses... more...
In the Land of Invented Languages
Random House Publishing Group 2009; US$ 16.00Here is the captivating story of humankind?s enduring quest to build a better language?and overcome the curse of Babel. Just about everyone has heard of Esperanto, which was nothing less than one man?s attempt to bring about world peace by means of linguistic solidarity. And every Star Trek fan knows about Klingon. But few people have heard of Babm,... more...
Esperanto, een taal om van te houden
Amsterdam University Press 2009; US$ 11.90De interlinguïstiek bestudeert door de mens gemaakte internationale verkeerstalen. Het Esperanto (1887) is hiervan de bekendste en de enige die is uitgegroeid tot een taal van een wereldwijde gemeenschap die haar eigen literatuur, radioprogramma's en internetverkeer heeft, en in deze taal congressen organiseert. De ontwikkeling van de taal wordt... more...
John Wilkins and 17th-Century British Linguistics
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1992; US$ 188.00In this reader, 19 articles have been collected that bring out the central position of John Wilkins and his Essay Toward a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language (1668) in the history of ideas in 17th-century Britain. more...
Eastern Ojibwa-Chippewa-Ottawa Dictionary
De Gruyter 1985; US$ 224.00Chicago (see Zhgaagong, which may mean "Place of the Skunk"). Kemo Sabe (see Giimoozaabi, which may mean "he looks out in secret"), and Giche-gumi (from Longfellow?s poem, see gchigami) are all words that came originally from algonquian languages and can be found in this dictionary. These languages have also given English such words as "moccasin" and... more...
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