Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

London : Croom Helm, ©1987.

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Details

Additional Authors

Comrie, Bernard, 1947-

Description

xiii, 1025 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm

Subjects

• Essais
• Essays
• essays
• Essay
• Language and languages
• Talen
• Langues
• Language

Genre/Form

• Essay
• essays.
• Essays.
• Essais.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

Introduction / Bernard Comrie -- 1. Indo-European Languages / Philip Baldi -- 2. Germanic Languages / John A. Hawkins ; 3. English / Edward Finegan ; 4. German / John A. Hawkins ; 5. Dutch / Jan G. Kooij ; 6. Danish, Norwegian and Swedish / Einar Haugen ; 7. Latin and the Italic Languages / R.G.G. Coleman ; 8. Romance Languages / John N. Green ; 9. French / Martin Harris ; 10. Spanish / John N. Green ; 11. Portuguese / Stephen Parkinson ; 12. Italian / Nigel Vincent ; 13. Rumanian / Graham Mallinson ; 14. Slavonic Languages / Bernard Comrie ; 15. Russian / Bernard Comrie ; 16. Polish / Gerald Stone ; 17. Czech and Slovak / David Short ; Serbo-Croat / Greville Corbett ; 19. Greek / Brian D. Joseph ; 20. Indo-Aryan Languages / George Cardona ; 21. Sanskrit / George Cardona ; 22. Hindi-Urdu / Yamuna Kachru ; 23. Bengali / M.H. Klaiman ; 24. Iranian Languages / J.R. Payne ; 25. Persian / Gernot L. Windfuhr ; 26. Pashto / D.N. MacKenzie -- 27. Uralic Languages / Robert Austerlitz ; 28. Hungarian / Daniel Abondolo ; 29. Finnish / Michael Branch -- 30. Turkish and the Turkic Languages / Jaklin Kornfilt -- 31. Afroasiatic Languages / Robert Hetzron ; 32. Semitic Languages / Robert Hetzron ; 33. Arabic / Alan S. Kaye ; 34. Hebrew / Robert Hetzron ; 35. Hausa and the Chadic Languages / Paul Newman -- 36. Tamil and the Dravidian Languages / Sanford B. Steever -- 37. Tai Languages / David Strecker ; 38. Thai / Thomas John Hudak -- 39. Vietnamese / Dinh-Hoa Nguyen -- 40. Sino-Tibetan Languages / Scott DeLancey ; 41. Chinese / Charles N. Li and Sandra A. Thompson ; 42. Burmese / Julian K. Wheatley -- 43. Japanese / Masayoshi Shibatani -- 44. Korean / Nam-Kil Kim -- 45. Austronesian Languages / Ross Clark ; 46. Malay (Indonesian and Malaysian) / D. J. Prentice ; 47. Tagalog / Paul Schachter -- 48. Niger-Kordofanian Languages / Douglas Pulleyblank ; 49. Yoruba / Douglas Pulleyblank ; 50. Swahili and the Bantu Languages / Benji Wald.

ISBN

• 0709934238
• 9780709934233
• 0195205219
• 9780195205213

OCLC

• ocm59847376
• 59847376
• SCSB-1163386

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library