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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...
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 World's Major Languages
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 230.00This volume features over 50 of the world's languages and language families. The featured languages have been chosen based on the number of speakers, their role as official languages and their cultural and historical importance. Each language is looked at in depth, and the chapters provide information on both grammatical features and on salient features... more...
Linguistic Borrowing in Bilingual Contexts
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2002; US$ 165.00A number of previous approaches to linguistic borrowing and contact phenomena in general have concluded that there are no formal boundaries whatsoever to the kinds of material that can pass from one language into another. At the same time, various hierarchies illustrate that some things are indeed more likely to be borrowed than others. Linguistic... more...
Typology of Resultative Constructions
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1988; US$ 260.00This volume, originally published in Russian, combines data from a wide range of languages, meticulously analyzed, with a sophisticated theoretical apparatus capable of isolating the most important syntactic and semantic parameters and of drawing those generalizations that are most significant from a cross-linguistic perspective. Many ideas which are... more...
Causatives and Transitivity
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1993; US$ 188.00This volume brings together 18 typological studies of causative and related constructions (transitivity, voice, other expressions of cause) by 19 scholars from North America, Western Europe, and Russia. The inspirations for the volume is the pioneering work on causative constructions by the Leningrad Typology Group; several of the contributors have... more...
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1991; US$ 165.00This is the third in a continuing series of papers presented at the annual meetings of the Arabic Linguistic Society whose primary purpose is to provide a forum for the study of Arabic within current approaches in linguistics. The volume includes a section on Arabic in relation to other languages, with papers ranging from the importance of Arabic to... more...
Relative Clauses in Languages of the Americas
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2012; US$ 149.00Studies in Ditransitive Constructions
De Gruyter 2010; US$ 307.00This rich volume explores the cross-linguistic variation in ditransitive constructions, syntactic patterns of 'give'-like verbs taking Agent, Theme and Recipient arguments. The volume includes a typological overview of ditransitive constructions, the editors' questionnaire, as well as 23 in-depth studies of ditransitive constructions in languages from... more...









