We communicate through the spoken and written word and language has evolved over the centuries. Many languages have survived although only in small pockets throughout the world. This book explores a selection of those languages and some that have now been lost forever. Selection of languages included; ISLANDS OF LANGUAGE ISOLATES - Basque language, Spain/France - Ainu, Japan/Russia - Burushaski, Pakistan - Huave language, Mexico INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGE ISLANDS - u er-Sandevo; Selemlija, N. Macedoniae - Trinidadian French Creole, Trinidad & Tobago - Y Wladfa, a Welsh colony in Argentina - Cornish language - Vakifli, Turkey - Bolze language of Switzerland NON-IE LANGUAGE ISLANDS IN EUROPE - Ugric languages - Gagauz language - Kalmyk Oirat language LANGUAGE ISLANDS AROUND THE WORLD - Yele language, Rossel Island, Papua New Guinea - Formosan languages - Kumzari language, Oman "WEIRD" LANGUAGES - Polari language, UK - Shelta traveller language of Ireland EXTINCT LANGUAGE ISLANDS - Sumerian language - Potato Germans in Denmark - Crimean Gothic These and many more instances are captured in this fascinating book full of strange language intrigue.
Unravel the mysteries of language with J.P. Davidson's remarkable Planet Word.
Peter Koch und Wulf Oesterreicher haben in einer vielbeachteten Arbeit versucht , die Kategorien Mündlichkeit / Schriftlichkeit in die strukturalistischen Varietätenbegriffe Eugenio Coserius zu integrieren . Dabei unterlegen sie den ...
jazyk, mysl a kultura Jan Pokorný. Zde je nutné zdůraznit, že ideálním stavem je harmonie mezi těmito stránkami terénního výzkumu, dosažení sporné „objektivity“ (Rosaldo 1989) v sociálních vědách je občas chybně nahrazováno zaujetím ...
Słoweński, Słoweńcy, Słowenia: zarys historii języka i kształtowania się świadomości narodowej
Quel est le rôle de la science ? Il y a une grande réhabilitation des théories sur l'origine du langage et des langues, du côté de la biologie, de l'évolution, de la psychologie du développement et de la linguistique.
“Die Antonymie im Lexikon”. Perspektiven der lexikalischen Semantik: Beiträge zum Wuppertaler Semantikkolloquium vom 23. Dezember 1977 hg. von D. Kastovsky, ... “Einzelsprachliche Analyse von Teilbereichen der lexikalischen Semantik”.
"There can be few subjects of such widespread interest and fascination to anyone who reads as the strange ways of languages. In this wonderfully entertaining and fascinating book, John McWhorter...
Key features of this introductory text include: up to date and recent case studies at the end of each chapter chapter summaries and exercises that feature a wide range of languages coverage of application of historical linguistics in each ...
ABAD NEBOT , F. ( 2003 ) : Lengua española . Para la historia de un concepto y de un y objeto . Murcia , Universidad de Murcia . ALBRECHT , J. , LÜDTKE , J. y THUN , H. ( eds . ) ( 1988 ) : Energeia un Ergon .
Los sustantivos son producidos por los objetos en cuanto que tienen existencia propia ; los cualitativos se refieren a ... la lengua española hasta el siglo XIX » , en el apartado dedicado a « La Academia y la gramática racionalista » ...