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Modern Mongolian: A Course-Bookby John Gaunt
RoutledgeCurzon 2004; US$ 54.95This 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...
Tai-Kadai Languagesby Anthony Diller
Routledge 2005; US$ 345.00An essential reference book for this particular linguistic community, as well as for linguists working on typology and syntax. more...
Mongolic Languagesby Juha Janhunen
Taylor & Francis 2003; US$ 350.00The first comprehensive treatment of the Mongolic languages in English, written by an international team of specialists. more...
Grammar Of Mangghuerby Keith W. Slater
Taylor & Francis 2003; US$ 200.00This book is a grammar of Mangghuer, a Mongolic language. Its primary importance is as a systematic grammatical description of a little-known language. It also makes a significant contribution to comparative Mongolic studies. more...
A Grammar of Qiangby Randy J. LaPolla; Chenglong Huang
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2003; US$ 207.20This book is a full reference grammar of Qiang, one of the minority languages of southwest China, spoken by about 70,000 Qiang and Tibetan people in Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in northern Sichuan Province. It belongs to the Qiangic branch of Tibeto-Burman (one of the two major branches of Sino-Tibetan). The dialect presented in the book is the Northern Qiang variety spoken in Ronghong Village, Yadu Township, Chibusu District, Mao County. This book, the first book-length description of the Qiang language in English, is the result of many years of work on the language, and is as typologically comprehensive as possible. It includes not only the reference grammar, but also an ethnological overview, several fully analyzed texts... more...
A Grammar of Laoby N.J. Enfield
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2008; US$ 266.00Lao is the national language of Laos, and is also spoken widely in Thailand and Cambodia. It is a tone language of the Tai-Kadai family (Southwestern Tai branch). Lao is an extreme example of the isolating, analytic language type. This book is the most comprehensive grammatical description of Lao to date. It describes and analyses the important structures of the language, including classifiers, sentence-final particles, and serial verb constructions. Special attention is paid to grammatical topics from a semantic, pragmatic, and typological perspective. more...
The Phonology of Mongolianby Jan-Olof Svantesson; Anna Tsendina; Anastasia Karlsson; Vivan Franzen
Oxford University Press, UK 2005; US$ 44.95This book provides both the first comprehensive description of the phonology and phonetics of Standard Mongolian and the first account in any language of the historical phonology of the Mongolian group of languages. - ;This book provides (a) the first comprehensive description of the phonology and phonetics of Standard Mongolian, known as the Halh (Khalkha) dialect and spoken in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of the Republic of Mongolia; and (b) the first account in any language of the historical phonology of the Mongolian group of languages. The synchronic phonology is based on data collected by the authors and on their own phonological analyses. The historical phonology is based on their research on. the Halh, on published Chinese and Mongolian... more...
Rabhaby Erik Andre Andersen; Birgit Lindsnaes; Stig Ree
BRILL 2006; US$ 310.00Aims to contribute to the debate on global public goods. This book investigates the possibilities and disadvantages of applying the idea of public goods in a global context. It explains the history of the concept and its significance for human rights. more...
Componential Analysis of Lushai Phonologyby Alfons Weidert
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1975; US$ 102.00The aim of this essay is to present a phonological analysis of Lushai, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Mizoram province of India, in terms of componential features applying ? as mutation rules ? to the morphophonological level. An analysis of this nature becomes possible if the concepts of phonological extension systems and redundancy-free representations are introduced. Alongside with the phonemic aspect, a semantic analysis of morpheme structure is required yielding the smallest significant units at different morphological or syntactic levels. Though based on criteria implying concepts like ?rule?, ?underlying representation?, and so forth, of the standard theory of generative phonology, this essay tries to implement the concepts of... more...