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The world's major languages /edited by Bernard Comrie.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, (c)2010.Edition: second editionDescription: xvi, 911 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780415353397
  • 9780415609029
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • P371 .W675 2010
  • P371
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Contents:
Philip Baldi -- Germanic languages/ John A. Hawkins -- English/ Edward Finegan -- German/ John A. Hawkins -- Dutch/ Jan G. Kooij -- Danish, Norwegian and Swedish/ Einar Haugen -- Latin and the Italic languages/ R.G.G. Coleman -- Romance languages/ John N. Green -- French/ Linda R. Waugh, Monique Monville-Burston -- Spanish/ John N. Green -- Portuguese/ Stephen Parkinson -- Italian/ Nigel Vincent -- Rumanian/ Graham Mallinson -- Slavonic languages/ Bernard Comrie -- Russian/ Bernard Comrie -- Polish/ Gerald Stone -- Czech and Slovak/ David Short -- Serbo-Croat : Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian/ Greville Corbett, Wayles Browne -- Greek/ Brian D. Joseph -- Indo-Aryan languages/ George Cardona, Silvia Luraghi -- Sanskrit/ George Cardona, Silvia Luraghi -- Hindi-Urdu/ Yamuna Kachru -- Bengali/ M.H. Klaiman -- Iranian languages/ J.R. Payne, Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari -- Persian/ Gernot L. Windfuhr -- Pashto/ D.N. MacKenzie -- Uralic languages/ Robert Austerlitz -- Hungarian/ Daniel Abondolo -- Finnish/ Michael Branch -- Turkish and the Turkic languages/ Jaklin Kornfilt -- Afroasiatic languages/ Robert Hetzron -- Semitic languages/ Robert Hetzron, Alan S. Kaye -- Arabic/ Alan S. Kaye -- Hebrew/ Robert Hetzron, Alan S. Kaye -- Amharic/ Grover Hudson -- Hausa and the Chadic languages/ Paul Newman -- Tamil and the Dravidian languages/ Sanford B. Steever -- Tai languages/ David Strecker -- Thai/ Thomas John Hudak -- Vietnamese/ inh-Hoa Nguyen -- Sino-Tibetan languages/ Scott DeLancey -- Chinese/ Charles N. Li, Sandra A. Thompson -- Burmese/ Julian K. Wheatley -- Japanese/ Masayoshi Shibatani -- Korean/ Nam-Kil Kim -- Austronesian languages/ Ross Clark -- Malay-Indonesian/ Uri Tadmor -- Javanese/ Michael P. Oakes -- Tagalog/ Paul Schachter, Lawrence A. Reid -- Niger-Kordofanian languages/ Douglas Pulleyblank -- Yoruba/ Douglas Pulleyblank, Olanike Ola Orie -- Swahili and the Bantu languages/ Benji Wald.
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Reprint. Originally published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Indo-European languages/ Philip Baldi -- Germanic languages/ John A. Hawkins -- English/ Edward Finegan -- German/ John A. Hawkins -- Dutch/ Jan G. Kooij -- Danish, Norwegian and Swedish/ Einar Haugen -- Latin and the Italic languages/ R.G.G. Coleman -- Romance languages/ John N. Green -- French/ Linda R. Waugh, Monique Monville-Burston -- Spanish/ John N. Green -- Portuguese/ Stephen Parkinson -- Italian/ Nigel Vincent -- Rumanian/ Graham Mallinson -- Slavonic languages/ Bernard Comrie -- Russian/ Bernard Comrie -- Polish/ Gerald Stone -- Czech and Slovak/ David Short -- Serbo-Croat : Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian/ Greville Corbett, Wayles Browne -- Greek/ Brian D. Joseph -- Indo-Aryan languages/ George Cardona, Silvia Luraghi -- Sanskrit/ George Cardona, Silvia Luraghi -- Hindi-Urdu/ Yamuna Kachru -- Bengali/ M.H. Klaiman -- Iranian languages/ J.R. Payne, Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari -- Persian/ Gernot L. Windfuhr -- Pashto/ D.N. MacKenzie -- Uralic languages/ Robert Austerlitz -- Hungarian/ Daniel Abondolo -- Finnish/ Michael Branch -- Turkish and the Turkic languages/ Jaklin Kornfilt -- Afroasiatic languages/ Robert Hetzron -- Semitic languages/ Robert Hetzron, Alan S. Kaye -- Arabic/ Alan S. Kaye -- Hebrew/ Robert Hetzron, Alan S. Kaye -- Amharic/ Grover Hudson -- Hausa and the Chadic languages/ Paul Newman -- Tamil and the Dravidian languages/ Sanford B. Steever -- Tai languages/ David Strecker -- Thai/ Thomas John Hudak -- Vietnamese/ inh-Hoa Nguyen -- Sino-Tibetan languages/ Scott DeLancey -- Chinese/ Charles N. Li, Sandra A. Thompson -- Burmese/ Julian K. Wheatley -- Japanese/ Masayoshi Shibatani -- Korean/ Nam-Kil Kim -- Austronesian languages/ Ross Clark -- Malay-Indonesian/ Uri Tadmor -- Javanese/ Michael P. Oakes -- Tagalog/ Paul Schachter, Lawrence A. Reid -- Niger-Kordofanian languages/ Douglas Pulleyblank -- Yoruba/ Douglas Pulleyblank, Olanike Ola Orie -- Swahili and the Bantu languages/ Benji Wald.

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