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Studies in the Historical Phonology of Asian Languages
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1991; US$ 165.00This volume owes its genesis to a series of lectures on various aspects of the historical phonology of Asian languages, sponsored by the Asian Linguistics Colloquium of the Department of Asian Languages and Literature of the University of Washington, in Seattle. The volume includes papers on both theoretical and applied aspects of Asian linguistics,... more...
Languages and Prehistory of Central Siberia
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2004; US$ 158.00The twelve articles in this volume describe Yeniseic, Samoyedic and Siberian Turkic languages as a linguistic complex of great interest to typologists, grammarians, diachronic and synchronic linguists, as well as cultural anthropologists. The articles demonstrate how interdependent the disparate languages spoken in this area actually are. Individual... more...
Geographical Typology and Linguistic Areas
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2011; US$ 143.00Is Africa a linguistic area (Heine & Leyew 2008)? The present volume consists of sixteen papers highlighting the linguistic geography of Africa, covering, in particular, southern Africa with its Khoisan languages. A wide range of phenomena are discussed to give an overview of the pattern of social, cultural, and linguistic interaction that characterizes... more...
Pragmatic Organization of Discourse in the Languages of Europe
De Gruyter 2006; US$ 335.00The volume is a collection of papers reporting the results of investigations on the interaction of discourse and sentence structure in the languages of Europe. The subjects discussed in the book include: morphosyntactic characteristics of spontaneous spoken texts; different patterns of word order in a pragmatic perspective; the coding of the pragmatic... more...
Toward a Typology of European Languages
De Gruyter 1990; US$ 196.00Toward a Typology of European Languages Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] more...
Entstehung von Sprachen und Völkern
De Gruyter 1985; US$ 196.00Entstehung Von Sprachen Und V Lkern: Glotto- Und Ethnogenetische Aspekte Europ Ischer Sprachen; Akten Des 6. Symposions Ber Sprachkontakt in Europa, Mannheim 1984. more...
The Major Languages of South Asia, the Middle East and Africa
Taylor and Francis 1990; US$ 110.00Based on the much-praised The World's Major Languages, this is the first comprehensive guide in paperback to describe the development, grammar sound and writing system, and sociological factors of the major language families in these areas. more...
The Major Languages of Eastern Europe
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 110.00Based on Comrie's much-praised The World's Major Languages , this is the first comprehensive guide in paperback to descibe in detail the language families of Eastern Europe, and includes an introduction which surveys the field. more...
Language in the USA
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 42.00This textbook provides a comprehensive survey of current language issues in the USA, exploring the nature of language variation and its social, historical and political significance. It is divided into three sections: Part I, American English; Part II, Other Language Varieties; and Part III, The Sociolinguistic Situation in the USA. more...









