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Author : Edward Sapir
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Yana Dictionary written by Edward Sapir and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sarat Chandra Das
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120817135
Total Pages : 1398 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Tibetan-English Dictionary written by Sarat Chandra Das and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 1398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here the Tibetan words are given in alphabetical order, with their accepted sanskrit equivalents followed by the english meaning. All the technical terms are illustrated from extracts form sanskrit Buddhist and Tibetan works.
Author : Daniel M. N. McDikkoh
Publisher : Outskirts Press
ISBN 13 : 1478741392
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (787 download)
Download or read book Hiamnda Dictionary written by Daniel M. N. McDikkoh and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2015-01-09 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hiam'nda: Lexicon, Dictionary and thesaurus is a document that contains over seven thousand words in first, the Jaba language or Hiam'nda - (Hiam Ham), with their definitions in both the Hausa and English languages. However, besides just comm definition of word in the Jaba language, this document attempts to also provide the grammatical aspect of and for the the Jaba language. This is the first attempt to provide a grammatical approach to writing the, ever. This edition also contains, some Bible verses, popular old but also traditional Christian (evangelical) songs translated from the old Hausa hymnal into Hiam'nda;. Furthermore, it also contains, names of some of some of the topographical (geographical) structures, like rivers, mountains or hills; common names, of people, trees, plants and animal and some short stories and or tales written in hiam Ham. While this book is not, by any stretch of the imagination, exhaustive, nevertheless, it is by far the most comprehensive document that might contain the largest number of words , idioms and idiomatic expression in the language of the Jaba people in Central Nigeria anywhere in the world!
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Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780700714551
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (145 download)
Download or read book A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms written by and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003-12-18 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This invaluable interpretive tool, first published in 1937, is now available for the first time in a paperback edition specially aimed at students of Chinese Buddhism. Those who have endeavoured to read Chinese texts apart from the apprehension of a Sanskrit background have generally made a fallacious interpretation, for the Buddhist canon is basically translation, or analogous to translation. In consequence, a large number of terms existing are employed approximately to connote imported ideas, as the various Chinese translators understood those ideas. Various translators invented different terms; and, even when the same term was finally adopted, its connotation varied, sometimes widely, from the Chinese term of phrase as normally used by the Chinese. For instance, klésa undoubtedly has a meaning in Sanskrit similar to that of, i.e. affliction, distress, trouble. In Buddhism affliction (or, as it may be understood from Chinese, the afflicters, distressers, troublers) means passions and illusions; and consequently fan-nao in Buddhist phraseology has acquired this technical connotation of the passions and illusions. Many terms of a similar character are noted in the body of this work. Consequent partly on this use of ordinary terms, even a well-educated Chinese without a knowledge of the technical equivalents finds himself unable to understand their implications.
Author : Brian Boyd
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691024714
Total Pages : 838 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (247 download)
Download or read book Vladimir Nabokov written by Brian Boyd and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Nabokov's life continues with his arrival in the United States in 1940. He found that supporting himself and his family was not easy--until the astonishing success of Lolita catapulted him to world fame and financial security.
Author : Ferdinand D Lessing
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136110429
Total Pages : 1229 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)
Download or read book Mongolian-English Dictionary written by Ferdinand D Lessing and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 1229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lessing's monumental dictionary is now back in print in its original 1960 format.
Author : Mjf Cooper
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1847535909
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (475 download)
Download or read book Swahili Medical Dictionary and Phrasebook written by Mjf Cooper and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is for doctors, nurses and other clinicians working or living in East Africa. It will also be useful for expatriates living in Swahili-speaking countries. A short introduction to Swahili is included. A wide range of clinical and practical topics is covered in detail.Further information about this book is available at www.lulu.com/medicalswahili.
Author : William Edward Soothill
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120803190
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (31 download)
Download or read book A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms written by William Edward Soothill and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1977 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is an outstanding work for which two eminent scholars of Chinese Buddhism separated by 2000 miles of ocean collaborated for complete ten years during which the manuscript crossed the Atlantic four times. The authors aim has been to provide a key for the student with which to unlock a closed door and which does serve to reveal the riches of the great Buddhist thesaurus in China. In the absence of a dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms it was small wonder that the translation of Chinese texts has made little progress important thought these are to the understanding of Mahayana buddhism especially in its Far Eastern development.
Author : Matthew Gordon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135922276
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Syllable Weight written by Matthew Gordon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-05-07 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is the first systematic exploration of a series of phonological phenomena previously thought to be unified under the rubric of syllable weight. Drawing on a typological survey of 400 languages, it is shown that the traditional conception that languages are internally consistent in their weight criteria across weight-based processes is not corroborated by the cross-linguistic survey. Rather than being consistent across phenomena within individual languages, weight turns out to be sensitive to the particular processes involved such that different phenomena display different distributions in weight criteria. The book goes on to explore the motivations behind the process-specific nature of weight, showing that phonetic factors explain much of the variation in weight criteria between phenomena and also the variation in criteria between languages for a single process. The book is unlike other studies in combining an extensive typological survey with detailed phonetic analysis of many languages. The finding that the widely studied phenomenon of syllable weight is not a unified phenomenon, contrary to the established view, is a significant result for the field of theoretical phonology. The book is also an important contribution to the field of phonetically-driven phonology, since it establishes a close link between the phonology of weight and various quantitative phonetic parameters.
Author : Alexander Tokiy
Publisher : Litres
ISBN 13 : 5043239077
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (432 download)
Download or read book Etymology of meanings. Brief etymological dictionary of planetary toponyms. At the origins of civilization written by Alexander Tokiy and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-01-13 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author reveals the amazing secrets of toponyms. The languages of the mankind grew out of an ancient community but now their kinship is barely visible. However, the preserved names that the ancestors gave to the features of the landscape make it easy to realize how the names Rome and Paris, Iowa and Missouri, London and the Thames, the Baikal, the Dardanelles and others appeared. Reading will help to see the world around you in a new way and awaken interest to the truth.
Author : Greville G. Corbett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521649704
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (497 download)
Download or read book Number written by Greville G. Corbett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-12-07 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Number is the most underestimated of the grammatical categories. It is deceptively simple yet the number system which philosophers, logicians and many linguists take as the norm - namely the distinction between singular and plural (as in cat versus cats) - is only one of a wide range of possibilities to be found in languages around the world. Some languages, for instance, make more distinctions than English, having three, four or even five different values. Adopting a wide-ranging perspective, Greville Corbett draws on examples from many languages to analyse the possible systems of number. He reveals that the means for signalling number are remarkably varied and are put to a surprising range of special additional uses. By surveying some of the riches of the world s linguistic resources this book makes a major contribution to the typology of categories and demonstrates that languages are much more varied than is generally recognised.
Author : William J. Bauer, Jr., Jr.
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295806699
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)
Download or read book California through Native Eyes written by William J. Bauer, Jr., Jr. and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bauer tells California history strictly through Native perspectives. Most California histories begin with the arrival of the Spanish missionaries in the late eighteenth century and conveniently skip to the Gold Rush of 1849. Noticeably absent from these stories are the perspectives and experiences of the people who lived on the land long before European settlers arrived. Historian William Bauer seeks to correct that oversight through an innovative approach that tells California history strictly through Native perspectives. Using oral histories of Concow, Pomo, and Paiute workers, taken as part of a New Deal federal works project, Bauer reveals how Native peoples have experienced and interpreted the history of the land we now call California. Combining these oral histories with creation myths and other oral traditions, he demonstrates the importance of sacred landscapes and animals and other nonhuman actors to the formation of place and identity. He also examines tribal stories of ancestors who prophesied the coming of white settlers and uses their recollections of the California Indian Wars to push back against popular narratives that seek to downplay Native resistance. The result both challenges the “California story” and enriches it with new voices and important points of view, serving as a model for understanding Native historical perspectives in other regions.
Author : Theodora Kroeber
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520240377
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Ishi in Two Worlds written by Theodora Kroeber and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: 1961. With new foreword.
Author : Theodora Kroeber
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520271475
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Ishi in Two Worlds, 50th Anniversary Edition written by Theodora Kroeber and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD The life story of Ishi, the Yahi Indian, lone survivor of a doomed tribe, is unique in the annals of North American anthropology. For more than fifty years, Theodora Kroeber's biography has been sharing this tragic and absorbing drama with readers all over the world. Ishi stumbled into the twentieth century on the morning of August 29, 1911, when, desperate with hunger and with terror of the white murderers of his family, he was found in the corral of a slaughter house near Oroville, California. Finally identified as an Indian by an anthropologist, Ishi was brought to San Francisco by Professor T. T. Waterman and lived there the rest of his life under the care and protection of Alfred Kroeber and the staff of the University of California's Museum of Anthropology.
Author : E. F. K. Koerner
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027245185
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Edward Sapir, Appraisals of His Life and Work written by E. F. K. Koerner and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Edward Sapir (1884 1939), this volume brings together a number of papers by distinguished North American scholars appraising the life and work of the world-renowned anthropologist and linguist. It includes an introduction by the editor, a full bibliography of Sapir's scientific writings, a detailed index of names, and many photographs and fac similes. Among the contributors are: Ruth Benedict, Leonard Bloomfield, Franz Boas, Joseph Greenberg, Mary Haas, Zellig Harris, A.L. Kroeber, Robert H. Lowie, David Mandelbaum, Morris Swadesh, and C.F. Voegelin.
Author : Sylvain Auroux
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 311019421X
Total Pages : 936 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)
Download or read book History of the Language Sciences / Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaften / Histoire des sciences du langage. 2. Teilband written by Sylvain Auroux and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-07-14 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 2 treats, in great detail and, at times quite innovatively, the individual stages of development of the study of language as an autonomous discipline, from the growing awareness in 17th and 18th century Europe of genetic relationships among a host of languages to the establishment of comparative-historical Indo-European linguistics in the 19th century, from the generation of the Schlegels, Bopp, Rask, and Grimm to the Neogrammarians and the application of the comparative method to non-Indo-European languages from all over the globe. Typological linguistic interests, first synthesized by Humboldt, as well as the development of various other non-historical endeavours in the 19th and the first half of the 20th century, such as language and psychology, semantics, phonetics, and dialectology, receive ample attention.
Author : Karl Kroeber
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803227576
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Ishi in Three Centuries written by Karl Kroeber and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ishi in Three Centuries brings together a range of insightful and unsettling perspectives and the latest research to enrich and personalize our understanding of one of the most famous Native Americans of the modern era?Ishi, the last Yahi. After decades of concealment from genocidal attacks on his people in California, Ishi (ca. 1860?1916) came out of hiding in 1911 and lived the last five years of his life in the University of California Anthropological Museum in San Francisco. ø Contributors to this volume illuminate Ishi the person, his relationship to anthropologist A. L. Kroeber and others, his Yahi world, and his enduring and evolving legacy for the twenty-first century. Ishi in Three Centuries features recent analytic translations of Ishi?s stories, new information on his language, craft skills, and his personal life in San Francisco, with reminiscences of those who knew him and A. L. Kroeber. Multiple sides of the repatriation controversy are showcased and given equal weight. Especially valuable are discussions by Native American writers and artists, including Gerald Vizenor, Louis Owens, and Frank Tuttle, of how Ishi continues to inspire the creative imagination of American Indians.
