Native American languages are spoken from Siberia to Greenland, and from the Arctic to Tierra del Fuego; they include the southernmost language of the world (Yaghan) and some of the northernmost (Eski ... 続きを読む
An Englishwoman living in World War I Brussels started a secret diary in September 1916. The diary, which survived the war and whose author remained anonymous, ended up in a Belgian archive. This book ... 続きを読む
This abridgement of the world's most authoritative dictionary of ancient Greek is based on the 1883 revision. It includes some discussion of word usage, citing examples and characteristic phrases. Gen ... 続きを読む
The History of the English Language has been a standard university course offering for over 150 years. Yet relatively little has been written about teaching a course whose very title suggests its prod ... 続きを読む
The History of the English Language has been a standard university course offering for over 150 years. Yet relatively little has been written about teaching a course whose very title suggests its prod ... 続きを読む
Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
This book traces the origins and development of the Arabic grammatical marker s/si, which is found in interrogatives, negators, and indefinite determiners over a broad dialect area that stretches from ... 続きを読む
Greville G. Corbett; Marina Chumakina; Dunstan Brown
ページ
320 ページ
フォーマット
Hardcover
サイズ
153 x 234 mm
刊行日
2016年08月
シリーズ
Oxford Studies of Endangered Languages
This book presents a controlled evaluation of three widely practised syntactic theories on the basis of the extremely complex agreement system of Archi, an endangered Nakh-Daghestanian language. Even ... 続きを読む
Written in an accessible and engaging style to appeal to a general audience
Contains extensive anecdotes and details of unusual linguistic phenomena from a range of languages
Offers an entertai ... 続きを読む
From the Constitution to the Bible, from literary classics to political sound bites, our modern lives are filled with numerous texts that govern and influence our behavior and beliefs. Whether in the ... 続きを読む
