Unique in scope, An Introduction to the Languages of the World introduces linguistics students to the variety of world?s languages. Students will gain familiarity with concepts such as sound change, lexical borrowing, diglossia, and language diffusion, and the rich variety of linguistic structure in word order, morphological types, grammatical relations, gender, inflection, and derivation. It offers the opportunity to explore structures of varying and fascinating languages even with no prior acquaintance. A chapter is devoted to each of the world?s continents, with in-depth analyses of representative languages of Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, and America, and separate chapters cover writing systems and pidgins and creoles. Each chapter contains exercises and recommendations for further reading. New to this edition are eleven original maps as well as sections on sign languages and language death and revitalization. For greater readability, basic language facts are now organized in tables, and language samples follow international standards for phonetic transcription and word-by-word glossing. There is an instructor?s manual available for registered instructors on the book?s companion website.
An Introduction to the Languages of the World Ebook
By: Anatole Lyovin; Brett Kessler; William Leben
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Print ISBN: 9780195149883, 0195149882
eText ISBN: 9780190645274, 019064527X
Edition: 2nd
Format: EPUB
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SKU: 9780190645274R180
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