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In this scholarly volume, each of the living Slavonic languages are
analyzed and described in depth, together with the two extinct
languages--Old Church Slavonic and Polabian. In addition, the
various alphabets of the Slavonic languages--especially Roman,
Cyrillic, and Glagolitic--are discussed, and the relationships of
the Slavonic languages to other Indo-European languages and to one
another, are explored. The last chapter provides an account of
those Slavonic languages "in exile" such as Russian, Ukrainian,
Polish, Czech, and Slovak in the US.
Each language chapter is written by an expert in the field, in a
format designed for comparative study. Information on each language
includes an introductory description of social context and
development, a discussion of phonology, a detailed presentation of
synchronic morphology, noting major historical developments,
comprehensive treatment of syntactic properties, a discussion of
vocabulary, an outline of main dialects, and an extensive
bibliography listing English and other sources.
Contributors include P. Cubberley, University of Melbourne, A.
Schenker, Yale University, D. Short, University of London, G.
Stone, University of Oxford, and A. Rothstein, University of
Massachusetts.
Part of a linguistic series covering all major world languages,
this volume contains essays that describe the languages of South
Asia, the Middle East and Africa, including Sanskrit, Persian,
Hindi-Urdu, Arabic, Hebrew, Tamil, Swahili and Bantu, Yoruba and
the Semitic languages.
Part of a linguistic series covering all major world languages,
this volume contains essays that describe the languages of Eastern
Europe, including Russian, Greek, Serbo-Croat, Czech and Slovak,
Hungarian, Finnish, Turkish, and other Indo-European, Uralic and
Slavonic tongues.
The World's Major Languages features over 50 of the world's
languages and language families. This revised edition includes
updated bibliographies for each chapter and up-to-date census
figures. The featured languages have been chosen based on the
number of speakers, their role as official languages and their
cultural and historical importance. Each language is looked at in
depth, and the chapters provide information on both grammatical
features and on salient features of the language's history and
cultural role. The World's Major Languages is an accessible and
essential reference work for linguists.
Turkic languages present particularly rich sources of data for the
study of language contact, given the number and diversity of
languages with which they have been in contact. Many common, false
generalisations are laid bare and the methodology used in
evaluating particular instances of language contact can also be
used with profit by students of languages other than the Turkic.
Translated by: Vanessa Karam
Based on the much-praised The World's Major Languages, this is the
first comprehensive guide in paperback to describe the development,
grammar sound and writing system, and sociological factors of the
major language families in these areas.
First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor and
Francis, an informa company.
Based on Bernard Comrie's much praisedThe World's Major Languages,
this is the first guide in paperback to an important language
family. The areas covered include Chinese, Japanese and
Sino-Tibetan languages.
Based on Bernard Comrie's The World's Major Languages, this is the
first guide in paperback to one of the major language families. The
areas covered include Germanic languages, English, and Romance
languages.
The studies in this book represent the rich, diverse and
substantial research being conducted today in the linguistics of
Mainland Southeast Asia. The chapters cover a broad scope. Several
studies address questions of language relatedness, often
challenging conventional assumptions about the status of language
contact as an explanatory factor in accounting for linguistic
similarities. Several address the question of Mainland Southeast
Asia as a linguistic area, exploring new ways to imagine and define
the boundaries, and indeed the boundedness, of a Mainland Southeast
Asia area. Two contributions rethink the received notion of the
'sesquisyllable' with new empirical and theoretical angles. And a
set of chapters explores topics in the morphology and syntax of the
region's languages, sometimes challenging orthodox assumptions and
claims about what a typical language of Mainland Southeast Asia is
like. Written by leading researchers in the field, and with a
substantial overview of current knowledge and new directions by the
volume editors N. J. Enfield and Bernard Comrie, this book will
serve as an authoritative source on where the linguistics of
Mainland Southeast Asia is at, and where it is heading.
Earlier empirical studies on valency have looked at the phenomenon
either in individual languages or a small range of languages, or
have concerned themselves with only small subparts of valency (e.g.
transitivity, ditransitive constructions), leaving a lacuna that
the present volume aims to fill by considering a wide range of
valency phenomena across 30 languages from different parts of the
world. The individual-language studies, each written by a
specialist or group of specialists on that language and covering
both valency patterns and valency alternations, are based on a
questionnaire (reproduced in the volume) and an on-line freely
accessible database, thus guaranteeing comparability of
cross-linguistic results. In addition, introductory chapters
provide the background to the project and discuss its main
characteristics and selected results, while a series of featured
articles by leading scholars who helped shape the field provide an
outside perspective on the volume's approach. The volume is
essential reading for anyone interested in valency and argument
structure, irrespective of theoretical persuasion, and will serve
as a model for future descriptive studies of valency in individual
languages.
Earlier empirical studies on valency have looked at the phenomenon
either in individual languages or a small range of languages, or
have concerned themselves with only small subparts of valency (e.g.
transitivity, ditransitive constructions), leaving a lacuna that
the present volume aims to fill by considering a wide range of
valency phenomena across 30 languages from different parts of the
world. The individual-language studies, each written by a
specialist or group of specialists on that language and covering
both valency patterns and valency alternations, are based on a
questionnaire (reproduced in the volume) and an on-line freely
accessible database, thus guaranteeing comparability of
cross-linguistic results. In addition, introductory chapters
provide the background to the project and discuss its main
characteristics and selected results, while a series of featured
articles by leading scholars who helped shape the field provide an
outside perspective on the volume's approach. The volume is
essential reading for anyone interested in valency and argument
structure, irrespective of theoretical persuasion, and will serve
as a model for future descriptive studies of valency in individual
languages.
The studies in this book represent the rich, diverse and
substantial research being conducted today in the linguistics of
Mainland Southeast Asia. The chapters cover a broad scope. Several
studies address questions of language relatedness, often
challenging conventional assumptions about the status of language
contact as an explanatory factor in accounting for linguistic
similarities. Several address the question of Mainland Southeast
Asia as a linguistic area, exploring new ways to imagine and define
the boundaries, and indeed the boundedness, of a Mainland Southeast
Asia area. Two contributions rethink the received notion of the
'sesquisyllable' with new empirical and theoretical angles. And a
set of chapters explores topics in the morphology and syntax of the
region's languages, sometimes challenging orthodox assumptions and
claims about what a typical language of Mainland Southeast Asia is
like. Written by leading researchers in the field, and with a
substantial overview of current knowledge and new directions by the
volume editors N. J. Enfield and Bernard Comrie, this book will
serve as an authoritative source on where the linguistics of
Mainland Southeast Asia is at, and where it is heading.
This rich volume deals comprehensively with cross-linguistic
variation in the morphosyntax of ditransitive constructions:
constructions formed with verbs (like give) that take Agent, Theme
and Recipient arguments. For the first time, a broadly
cross-linguistic perspective is adopted. The present volume,
consisting of an overview article and twenty-odd in-depth studies
of ditransitive constructions in individual languages from
different continents, arose from the conference on ditransitive
constructions held at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary
Anthropology (Leipzig) in 2007. It opens with the editors' survey
article providing an overview of cross-linguistic variation in
ditransitive constructions, followed by the questionnaire on
ditransitive constructions, compiled by the editors in order to
elicit various properties of these patterns. The editors' overview
discusses formal properties of ditransitive constructions as well
as behavioral (or syntactic) and lexical properties (i.e., the
extension of ditransitive constructions across different verb
classes). The volume includes 23 contributions describing
properties of ditransitive constructions in languages from all over
the world, written by leading experts. Care has been taken that the
contributions to the volume will be representative of structural,
geographic and genealogical diversity in the domain of ditransitive
constructions. Thus the present volume provides a unique source of
information on typological diversity of ditransitive constructions.
It is expected that it will be of central interest to all scholars
and advanced students of linguistics, especially to those working
in the field of language typology and comparative syntax.
The concept of semantic roles has been central to linguistic theory
for many decades. More specifically, the assumption of such
representations as mediators in the correspondence between a
linguistic form and its associated meaning has helped to address a
number of critical issues related to grammatical phenomena.
Furthermore, in addition to featuring in all major theories of
grammar, semantic (or 'thematic') roles have been referred to
extensively within a wide range of other linguistic subdisciplines,
including language typology and psycho-/neurolinguistics. This
volume brings together insights from these different perspectives
and thereby, for the first time, seeks to build upon the obvious
potential for cross-fertilisation between hitherto autonomous
approaches to a common theme. To this end, a view on semantic roles
is adopted that goes beyond the mere assumption of generalised
roles, but also focuses on their hierarchical organisation. The
book is thus centred around the interdisciplinary examination of
how these hierarchical dependencies subserve argument linking -
both in terms of linguistic theory and with respect to real-time
language processing - and how they interact with other information
types in this process. Furthermore, the contributions examine the
interaction between the role hierarchy and the conceptual content
of (generalised) semantic roles and investigate their
cross-linguistic applicability and psychological reality, as well
as their explanatory potential in accounting for phenomena in the
domain of language disorders. In bridging the gap between different
disciplines, the book provides a valuable overview of current
thought on semantic roles and argument linking, and may further
serve as a point of departure for future interdisciplinary research
in this area. As such, it will be of interest to scientists and
advanced students in all domains of linguistics and cognitive
science.
The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this
rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the
perspective of individual languages, language families, language
groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a
deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to
little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on
long-standing problems in general linguistics.
Based on Bernard Comrie's much praised The World's Major Languages,
this is a key guide to an important language family. The areas
covered include Chinese, Japanese and Sino-Tibetan languages.
Series Information: Routledge Language Family Series
The World's Major Languages features over 50 of the world's
languages and language families. This revised edition includes
updated bibliographies for each chapter and up-to-date census
figures. The featured languages have been chosen based on the
number of speakers, their role as official languages and their
cultural and historical importance. Each language is looked at in
depth, and the chapters provide information on both grammatical
features and on salient features of the language's history and
cultural role. The World's Major Languages is an accessible and
essential reference work for linguists.
Based on Bernard Comrie's The World's Major Languages, this is a
key guide to one of the major language families. The areas covered
include Germanic languages, English, and Romance languages.
The volume is highly relevant to the current regional and
international discussion on endangered languages, language contact,
documentation and areal typology. The publication is the outcome of
a fruitful theoretical and methodological exchange between Latin
American scholars and international scholars working in other
regions. Most of the papers target Latin American languages.
Additionally, new insight into the contact situations in Indonesia,
Iran, Australia and Papua New Guinea is provided.
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