Mahāyāna Texts Translated Into Western Languages
Author: Peter Pfandt
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9004598561
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Author: Peter Pfandt
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9004598561
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Arcadio Schwade
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-11-27
Total Pages: 138
ISBN-13: 9004658262
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Geoffrey Haig
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2018-12-03
Total Pages: 1183
ISBN-13: 3110421747
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe languages of Western Asia belong to a variety of language families, including Indo-European, Kartvelian, Semitic, and Turkic, but share numerous features on account of being in areal contact over many centuries. This volume presents descriptions of the modern languages, contributed by leading specialists, and evaluates similarities across the languages that may have arisen by areal contact. It begins with an introductory chapter presenting an overview of the various genetic groupings in the region and summarizing some of the significant features and issues relating to language contact. In the core of the volume the presentation of the languages is divided into five contact areas, which include (i) eastern Anatolia and northwestern Iran, (ii) northern Iraq, (iii) western Iran, (iv) the Caspian region and south Azerbaijan, and (v) the Caucasian rim and southern Black Sea coast. Each section contains chapters devoted to the languages of the area preceded by an introductory section that highlights significant contact phenomena. The volume is rounded off by an appendix with basic lexical items across a selection of the languages. The handbook features contributions by Erik Anonby, Denise Bailey, Christiane Bulut, David Erschler, Geoffrey Haig, Geoffrey Khan, Rene Lacroix, Parvin Mahmoudveysi, Hrach Martirosyan, Ludwig Paul, Stephan Procházka, Laurentia Schreiber, Don Stilo, Mortaza Taheri-Ardali, Christina van der Wal Anonby.
Author: Philippe Wolff
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9781842122761
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA brilliant historical survey of the development of language in the West, translated from the French by Frances Partridge. When did men stop speaking Latin? How did the actions of society or religion influence vocabulary? What effect did the conquest of the Anglo-Saxon countries by William the Conqueror and his French-speaking knights have on language? Speech and writing play a fundamental part in man's activities. Social life is inconceivable without some system of signs enabling us to communicate with each other, and language is chief among these signs. From Cicero to Gutenberg, WESTERN LANGUAGES AD 100 - 1500 shows how it is impossible to claim any real understanding of the development of the West without knowing about the development of its languages.
Author: Bernard Comrie
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-12-24
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 1136897755
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased 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.
Author: Carlo Ferrari, Kihoon Kim, Fabio Guidetti, Chiara Ombretta Tommasi
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2024-04-30
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 3111308448
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dingfang Shu
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 642
ISBN-13: 9783039118861
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This collection of papers on contrastive semantics and pragmatics has developed out of talks given at the Third International Conference on Contrastive Semantics and Pragmatics that was held at the ... Hongkou Campus of Shanghai International Studies University ... in 2005."--
Author: Lenore A. Grenoble
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998-03-26
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780521597128
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides an overview of the issues surrounding language loss. It brings together work by theoretical linguists, field linguists, and non-linguist members of minority communities to provide an integrated view of how language is lost, from sociological and economic as well as from linguistic perspectives. The contributions to the volume fall into four categories. The chapters by Dorian and Grenoble and Whaley provide an overview of language endangerment. Grinevald, England, Jacobs, and Nora and Richard Dauenhauer describe the situation confronting threatened languages from both a linguistic and sociological perspective. The understudied issue of what (beyond a linguistic system) can be lost as a language ceases to be spoken is addressed by Mithun, Hale, Jocks, and Woodbury. In the last section, Kapanga, Myers-Scotton, and Vakhtin consider the linguistic processes which underlie language attrition.
Author: Derek Nurse
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-03-21
Total Pages: 727
ISBN-13: 1135796831
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGerard Philippson is Professor of Bantu Languages at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales and is a member of the Dyamique de Langage research team of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Lyon II University. He has mainly worked on comparative Bantu tonology. Other areas of interest include Afro-Asiatic, general phonology, linguistic classification and its correlation with population genetics.
Author: Diedrich Westermann
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-09-22
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 1351600508
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume, originally published in 1970, presents a survey of the languages spoken in an area extending from the Atlantic coast at the Sengal River eastward to the Lake Chad region. The area covered by this volume is mainly a goegraphical one, so it follows that not all the languages included are related to one another, though a certain degree of homogeneity appears.