29.806, Books: An Introduction to the Languages of the World: Lyovin, Kessler, Leben

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Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 14:19:14
From: Celine Aenlle-Rocha [Celine.Aenlle-Rocha at oup.com]
Subject: An Introduction to the Languages of the World: Lyovin, Kessler, Leben

 


Title: An Introduction to the Languages of the World 
Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/an-introduction-to-the-languages-of-the-world-9780195149883 


Author: Anatole Lyovin
Author: Brett Kessler
Author: William Leben

Paperback: ISBN:  9780195149883 Pages:  Price: ----  


Abstract:

Editor’s Note: This is a new edition of a previously announced book.

Unique in scope, An Introduction to the Languages of the World introduces
linguistics students to the variety of world's languages. Students will gain
familiarity with concepts such as sound change, lexical borrowing, diglossia,
and language diffusion, and the rich variety of linguistic structure in word
order, morphological types, grammatical relations, gender, inflection, and
derivation. It offers the opportunity to explore structures of varying and
fascinating languages even with no prior acquaintance. A chapter is devoted to
each of the world's continents, with in-depth analyses of representative
languages of Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, and America, and separate chapters
cover writing systems and pidgins and creoles. Each chapter contains exercises
and recommendations for further reading. New to this edition are eleven
original maps as well as sections on sign languages and language death and
revitalization. For greater readability, basic language facts are now
organized in tables, and language samples follow international standards for
phonetic transcription and word-by-word glossing.

There is an instructor's manual available for registered instructors on the
book's companion website.
 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Typology


Written In: English  (eng)

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