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  • Turkishby Celia Kerslake; ; Asli ksel

    Routledge 2005; US$ 68.95

    Turkish belongs to the Turkic family of languages, which have been spoken for many centuries across a vast territory from the Balkans to China. Within this family, which includes such languages as Uighur, Uzbek, Tatar and Kazakh, Turkish forms part of the southwestern or Oghuz branch. Its closest relatives are Gagauz (spoken by less than 200,000 people of Orthodox Christian religion, mostly in southern Moldova), Azerbaijanian (spoken by up to 20 million people in Iran and Azerbaijan) and Turkmen (spoken by some 3 million people in Turkmenistan and by about 400,000 in Iraq). more...

  • Chinese Literature in the Second Half of a Modern Centuryby Pang-Yuan Chi; David Der-wei Wang

    Indiana University Press 2000; US$ 35.15

    "... an important contribution to the study of recent Chinese literature." -- Choice "This fine, scholarly survey of Chinese literature since 1949... discusses such trends as modernism, nativism, realism, root-seeking and 'scar' literature, 'misty' poets, and political, feminist, and societal issues in modern Chinese literature." -- Library Journal This volume is a survey of modern Chinese literature in the second half of the twentieth century. It has three goals: (1) to introduce figures, works, movements, and debates that constitute the dynamics of Chinese literature from 1949 to the end of the century; (2) to... more...

  • Contemporary Taiwanese Cultural Nationalismby A-Chin Hsiau

    RoutledgeCurzon 2000; US$ 190.00

    Drawing on a wide range of Chinese historical and contemporary texts, this book addresses diverse subjects including nationalist literature; language ideology; the crafting of a national history and the impact of Japanese colonialism. more...

  • Intermediate Cantoneseby Virginia Yip; Stephen Matthews

    Routledge 2000; US$ 40.95

    For learners wishing to progress from basic proficiency to more complex language. Combines clear grammar explanations with exercises and answer key. Follows on from its sister volume, Basic Cantonese . more...

  • Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar Workbookby Claudia Ross; Jing-heng Ma

    Routledge 2005; US$ 38.95

    The Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar Workbook is an innovative book of exercises and language tasks for all learners of Mandarin Chinese. more...

  • Vietnamese Toneby Andrea Hoa Pham

    Routledge 2003; US$ 351.00

    This new book offers research that will affect further study of tone in Vietnamese and other tonal languages. more...

  • Modern Mongolian: A Course-Bookby John Gaunt

    RoutledgeCurzon 2004; US$ 54.95

    This complete guide to the Mongolian language provides a basic knowledge of all Mongolian noun inflexions and the basic and most important verbal inflections, and the uses of these. more...

  • Focus and Background Marking in Mandarin Chineseby Daniel Hole

    RoutledgeCurzon 2003; US$ 195.00

    This is an investigation into the grammaticalized system of focus-background agreement in Mandarin Chinese. more...

  • Tai-Kadai Languagesby Anthony Diller

    Routledge 2005; US$ 345.00

    An essential reference book for this particular linguistic community, as well as for linguists working on typology and syntax. more...

  • Tone Sandhiby Matthew Y. Chen; S. R. Anderson; J. Bresnan; B. Comrie; W. Dressler; C. J. Ewen; R. Huddleston

    Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 62.00

    Matthew Chen's landmark study offers the most comprehensive analysis to date of the rich and complex patterns of tone used in Chinese languages. His book, the culmination of a ten-year research project, explores a range of important theoretical issues against a wealth of empirical data not previously accessible to linguists. more...