By Keith Brown,Sarah Ogilvie
ISBN-10: 0080877745
ISBN-13: 9780080877747
It will supply complete descriptions of the phonology, semantics, morphology, and syntax of the world’s significant languages, giving insights into their constitution, historical past and improvement, sounds, that means, constitution, and language relations, thereby either highlighting their range for comparative research, and contextualizing them in accordance with their genetic relationships and neighborhood distribution.
Based at the hugely acclaimed and award-winning Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, this quantity will offer an edited selection of nearly four hundred articles all through which a consultant subset of the world's significant languages are opened up and defined in up to date terminology and authoritative interpretation, through the best students in linguistics.
In highlighting the range of the world’s languages — from the thriving to the endangered and extinct — this paintings would be the first element of name to any language professional drawn to this massive region. No different unmarried quantity will fit the level of language assurance or the authority of the participants of Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World.
* notable breadth of insurance: a complete number of slightly below four hundred articles protecting the world's significant languages, language households, and class buildings, concerns and disputes
* Peerless caliber: in response to twenty years of educational improvement on variants of the prime reference source in linguistics, Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics
* targeted authorship: 350 of the world's prime specialists introduced jointly for one purpose
* remarkable editorial choice, assessment and validation strategy: Keith Brown and Sarah Ogilvie act as first-tier guarantors for article caliber and coverage
* Compact and reasonable: one-volume layout makes this appropriate for private examine at any establishment drawn to areal, descriptive, or comparative language examine - and at a fragment of the price of the total encyclopedia
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