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The World's major languages /
- Title
- The World's major languages / edited by Bernard Comrie.
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1990, c1987.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | P371 .W6 1987 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Comrie, Bernard, 1947-
- Description
- xiii, 1025 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Note
- "For the 1989 [sic] number of minor errors have been corrected and bibliographical material has been updated."--Pref.
- Princeton copy gift of Eileen Palermo.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographies and index.
- Contents
- Introduction / Bernard Comrie -- 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 / Martin Harris -- 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 / Greville Corbett -- Greek / Brian D. Joseph --Indo-Aryan languages / George Cardona -- Sanskrit / George Cardona -- Hindi-Urdu / Yamuna Kachru -- Bengali / M.H. Klaiman -- Iranian languages / J.R. Payne -- 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 -- Arabic / Alan S. Kaye -- Hebrew / Robert Hetzron -- Hausa and the Chadic languages / Paul Newman -- Tamil and the Dravidian languages / Sanford B. Steever -- Tai languages / David Strecker -- Thai / Thomas John Hudak -- Vietnamese / Đình-Hoà Nguyễn -- Sino-Tibetan languages / Scott Delancey -- Chinese / Charles N. Li and Sandra A. Thompson -- Burmese / Julian K. Wheatley -- Japanese / Masayoshi Shibatani -- Korean / Nam-Kil Kim -- Austronesian languages / Ross Clark -- Malay (Indonesian and Malaysian) / D.J. Prentice -- Tagalog / Paul Schachter -- Niger-Kordofanian languages / Douglas Pulleyblank -- Yoruba / Douglas Pulleyblank -- Swahili and the Bantu languages / Benji Wald.
- ISBN
- 0195065115
- 9780195065114
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library