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Author : Laurence C. Thompson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
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Download or read book Proto-Viet-Muong Phonology written by Laurence C. Thompson and published by . This book was released on 197? with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Zev Handel
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004352228
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Sinography: The Borrowing and Adaptation of the Chinese Script written by Zev Handel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the more than 3,000 years since its invention, the Chinese script has been adapted many times to write languages other than Chinese, including Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese, and Zhuang. In Sinography: The Borrowing and Adaptation of the Chinese Script, Zev Handel provides a comprehensive analysis of how the structural features of these languages constrained and motivated methods of script adaptation. This comparative study reveals the universal principles at work in the borrowing of logographic scripts. By analyzing and explaining these principles, Handel advances our understanding of how early writing systems have functioned and spread, providing a new framework that can be applied to the history of scripts beyond East Asia, such as Sumerian and Akkadian cuneiform.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004425608
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Austroasiatic Syntax in Areal and Diachronic Perspective written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume elevates historical morpho-syntax to a research priority in the field of Southeast Asian language history, transcending the traditional focus on phonology and lexicon. The eleven chapters reflect work by 13 leading researchers in Austroasiatic language studies.
Author : Christel Stolz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110408473
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Language Empires in Comparative Perspective written by Christel Stolz and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion of empire is associated with economic and political mechanisms of dominance. For the last decades, however, there has been a lively debate concerning the question whether this concept can be transferred to the field of linguistics, specifically to research on situations of language spread on the one hand and concomitant marginalization of minority languages on the other. The authors who contributed to this volume concur as to the applicability of the notion of empire to language-related issues. They address the processes, potential merits and drawbacks of language spread as well as the marginalization of minority languages, language endangerment and revitalization, contact-induced language change, the emergence of mixed languages, and identity issues. An emphasis is on the dominance of non-Western languages such as Arabic, Chinese, and, particularly, Russian. The studies demonstrate that the emergence, spread and decline of language empires is a promising area of research, particularly from a comparative perspective.
Author : Alexander Vovin
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004644822
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book A Reconstruction of Proto-Ainu written by Alexander Vovin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph deals with the reconstruction of the Proto-Ainu language and the problems of its genetic affiliation.
Author : Axel Schuessler
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824861337
Total Pages : 679 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese written by Axel Schuessler and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2006-12-31 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first genuine etymological dictionary of Old Chinese written in any language. As such, it constitutes a milestone in research on the evolution of the Sinitic language group. Whereas previous studies have emphasized the structure of the Chinese characters, this pathbreaking dictionary places primary emphasis on the sounds and meanings of Sinitic roots. Based on more than three decades of intensive investigation in primary and secondary sources, this completely new dictionary places Old Chinese squarely within the Sino-Tibetan language family (including close consideration of numerous Tiberto-Burman languages), while paying due regard to other language families such as Austroasiatic, Miao-Yao (Hmong-Mien), and Kam-Tai. Designed for use by nonspecialists and specialists alike, the dictionary is highly accessible, being arranged in alphabetical order and possessed of numerous innovative lexicographical features. Each entry offers one or more possible etymologies as well as reconstructed pronunciations and other relevant data. Words that are morphologically related are grouped together into "word families" that attempt to make explicit the derivational or other etymological processes that relate them. The dictionary is preceded by a substantive and significant introduction that outlines the author’s views on the linguistic position of Chinese within Asia and details the phonological and morphological properties, to the degree they are known, of the earliest stages of the Chinese language and its ancestor. This introduction, because it both summarizes and synthesizes earlier work and makes several original contributions, functions as a useful reference work all on its own.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004283579
Total Pages : 1358 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Handbook of Austroasiatic Languages (2 vols) written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 1358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of the Austroasiatic Languages is the first comprehensive reference work on this important language family of South and Southeast Asia. Austroasiatic languages are spoken by more than 100 million people, from central India to Vietnam, from Malaysia to Southern China, including national language Cambodian and Vietnamese, and more than 130 minority communities, large and small. The handbook comprises two parts, Overviews and Grammar Sketches: Part 1) The overview chapters cover typology, classification, historical reconstruction, plus a special overview of the Munda languages. Part 2) Some 27 scholars present grammar sketches of 21 languages, representing 12 of the 13 branches. The sketches are carefully prepared according to the editors’ unifying typological approach, ensuring analytical and notational comparability throughout.
Author : David Prager Branner
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027247854
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book The Chinese Rime Tables written by David Prager Branner and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Printbegrænsninger: Der kan printes 10 sider ad gangen og max. 40 sider pr. session
Author : Fr. van Coetsem
Publisher : Brill Archive
ISBN 13 : 9789004061309
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (613 download)
Download or read book Contributions to Historical Linguistics written by Fr. van Coetsem and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1980 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Sidwell
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311055612X
Total Pages : 1261 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book The Languages and Linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia written by Paul Sidwell and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-08-23 with total page 1261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The handbook will offer a survey of the field of linguistics in the early 21st century for the Southeast Asian Linguistic Area. The last half century has seen a great increase in work on language contact, work in genetic, theoretical, and descriptive linguistics, and since the 1990s especially documentation of endangered languages. The book will provide an account of work in these areas, focusing on the achievements of SEAsian linguistics, as well as the challenges and unresolved issues, and provide a survey of the relevant major publications and other available resources. We will address: Survey of the languages of the area, organized along genetic lines, with discussion of relevant political and cultural background issues Theoretical/descriptive and typological issues Genetic classification and historical linguistics Areal and contact linguistics Other areas of interest such as sociolinguistics, semantics, writing systems, etc. Resources (major monographs and monograph series, dictionaries, journals, electronic data bases, etc.) Grammar sketches of languages representative of the genetic and structural diversity of the region.
Author : Kenneth Gregerson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 78 pages
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Download or read book A Study of Middle Vietnamese Phonology written by Kenneth Gregerson and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marc Hideo Miyake
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134403739
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)
Download or read book Old Japanese written by Marc Hideo Miyake and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What did eighth-century Japanese sound like? How does one decode its complex script? This book provides the definitive answers to these questions using an unprecedented range of data from the past and the present.
Author : Edwin G. Pulleyblank
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774843373
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book Middle Chinese written by Edwin G. Pulleyblank and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in the early part of this century, Bernhard Karlgren's classic work Etudes sur la phonologie chinoise laid the foundation in western sinology for the scientific reconstruction of Chinese pronunciation. In this present study E.G. Pulleyblank gives the first full-scale review of Karlgren's work, taking into account advances in knowledge over the past fifty years in both the history of the Chinese language and in general linguistic theory.
Author : Jerry Norman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521296533
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (965 download)
Download or read book Chinese written by Jerry Norman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988-01-21 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the Chinese language, tracing its history from its beginings in the second millennium BC to the present day.
Author : Roger Blench
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134828691
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Archaeology and Language II written by Roger Blench and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using language to date the origin and spread of food production, Archaeology and Language II represents groundbreaking work in synthesizing two disciplines that are now seen as interlinked: linguistics and archaeology. This volume is the second part of a three-part survey of innovative results emerging from their combination. Archaeology and historical linguistics have largely pursued separate tracks until recently, although their goals can be very similar. While there is a new awareness that these disciplines can be used to complement one another, both rigorous methodological awareness and detailed case-studies are still lacking in the literature. This three-part survey is the first study to address this. Archaeology and Language II examines in some detail how archaeological data can be interpreted through linguistic hypotheses. This collection demonstrates the possibility that, where archaeological sequences are reasonably well-known, they might be tied into evidence of language diversification and thus produce absolute chronologies. Where there is evidence for migrations and expansions these can be explored through both disciplines to produce a richer interpretation of prehistory. An important part of this is the origin and spread of food production which can be modelled through the spread of both plants and words for them. Archaeology and Language II will be of interest to researchers in linguistics, archaeologists and anthropologists.
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Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080547842
Total Pages : 26924 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics written by and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2005-11-24 with total page 26924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of ELL (1993, Ron Asher, Editor) was hailed as "the field's standard reference work for a generation". Now the all-new second edition matches ELL's comprehensiveness and high quality, expanded for a new generation, while being the first encyclopedia to really exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics. * The most authoritative, up-to-date, comprehensive, and international reference source in its field * An entirely new work, with new editors, new authors, new topics and newly commissioned articles with a handful of classic articles * The first Encyclopedia to exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics through the online edition * Ground-breaking and International in scope and approach * Alphabetically arranged with extensive cross-referencing * Available in print and online, priced separately. The online version will include updates as subjects develop ELL2 includes: * c. 7,500,000 words * c. 11,000 pages * c. 3,000 articles * c. 1,500 figures: 130 halftones and 150 colour * Supplementary audio, video and text files online * c. 3,500 glossary definitions * c. 39,000 references * Extensive list of commonly used abbreviations * List of languages of the world (including information on no. of speakers, language family, etc.) * Approximately 700 biographical entries (now includes contemporary linguists) * 200 language maps in print and online Also available online via ScienceDirect – featuring extensive browsing, searching, and internal cross-referencing between articles in the work, plus dynamic linking to journal articles and abstract databases, making navigation flexible and easy. For more information, pricing options and availability visit www.info.sciencedirect.com. The first Encyclopedia to exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics Ground-breaking in scope - wider than any predecessor An invaluable resource for researchers, academics, students and professionals in the fields of: linguistics, anthropology, education, psychology, language acquisition, language pathology, cognitive science, sociology, the law, the media, medicine & computer science. The most authoritative, up-to-date, comprehensive, and international reference source in its field
Author : Trang Phan
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9819743141
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (197 download)
Download or read book Studies in Vietnamese Historical Linguistics written by Trang Phan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
