An Introduction to the Languages of the World - Paperback
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An Introduction to the Languages of the World - Paperback
$126.54
by Anatole Lyovin (Author), Brett Kessler (Author), William Leben (Author)
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.Author Biography
Anatole Lyovin is retired Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Brett Kessler is Associate Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Washington University in St. Louis. William Leben is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at Stanford University.
Number of Pages: 544
Dimensions: 1.2 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN
Publication Date: January 02, 2017
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