The Languages and Linguistics of Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Languages and Linguistics of Europe write by Bernd Kortmann. This book was released on 2011. The Languages and Linguistics of Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Open publication> The Languages and Linguistics ofEurope: A Comprehensive Guideis part of the multi-volume reference work on the languages and linguistics of the continents of the world. The book supplies profiles of the language families of Europe, including the sign languages. It also discusses the areal typology, paying attention to the Standard Average European, Balkan, Baltic and Mediterranean convergence areas. Separate chapters deal with the old and new minority languages and with non-standard varieties. A major focus is language politics and policies, including discussions of the special status of English, the relation between language and the church, language and the school, and standardization. The history of European linguistics is another focus as is the history of multilingual European 'empires' and their dissolution. The volume is especially geared towards a graduate and advanced undergraduatereadership. It has been designed such that it can be used, as a whole or in parts, as a textbook, the first of its kind, for graduate programmes with a focus on the linguistic (and linguistics) landscape of Europe.
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http://admin.mtp.hum.ku.dk/m/editbook.asp?eln=203591 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook http://admin.mtp.hum.ku.dk/m/editbook.asp?eln=203591 write by Robert Mailhammer. This book was released on 2015-11-06. http://admin.mtp.hum.ku.dk/m/editbook.asp?eln=203591 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Most of us know of the Indo-European roots of European languages, but how did this precursor language take hold and what did Europe look like before it did so? This book explores the continent before the spread of the Indo-Europeans, examines its indigenous population and the contacts it had with Indo-European and Uralic immigrants, and, ultimately, asks how these origins led to the development of that crucial singularity for Europe’s languages. Drawing on archaeology, religious studies, and palaeography, the contributors offer a detailed and comprehensive picture of Europe’s linguistic and, in turn, cultural prehistory.
Lingo
Lingo - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lingo write by Gaston Dorren. This book was released on 2015-12-01. Lingo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Six thousand years. Sixty languages. One “brisk and breezy” whirlwind armchair tour of Europe “bulg[ing] with linguistic trivia” (The Wall Street Journal). Take a trip of the tongue across the continent in this fascinating, hilarious and highly edifying exploration of the many ways and whys of Euro-speaks—its idiosyncrasies, its histories, commonalities, and differences. Most European languages are descended from a single ancestor, a language not unlike Sanskrit known as Proto-Indo-European (or PIE for short), but the continent’s ever-changing borders and cultures have given rise to a linguistic and cultural diversity that is too often forgotten in discussions of Europe as a political entity. Lingo takes us into today’s remote mountain villages of Switzerland, where Romansh is still the lingua franca, to formerly Soviet Belarus, a country whose language was Russified by the Bolsheviks, to Sweden, where up until the 1960s polite speaking conventions required that one never use the word “you.” “In this bubbly linguistic endeavor, journalist and polyglot Dorren thoughtfully walks readers through the weird evolution of languages” (Publishers Weekly), and not just the usual suspects—French, German, Yiddish, irish, and Spanish, Here, too are the esoteric—Manx, Ossetian, Esperanto, Gagauz, and Sami, and that global headache called English. In its sixty bite-sized chapters, Dorret offers quirky and hilarious tidbits of illuminating facts, and also dispels long-held lingual misconceptions (no, Eskimos do not have 100 words for snow). Guaranteed to change the way you think about language, Lingo is a “lively and insightful . . . unique, page-turning book” (Minneapolis Star Tribune).
Tense and Aspect in the Languages of Europe
Tense and Aspect in the Languages of Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tense and Aspect in the Languages of Europe write by Östen Dahl. This book was released on 2008-08-22. Tense and Aspect in the Languages of Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.
The Ancient Languages of Europe
The Ancient Languages of Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ancient Languages of Europe write by Roger D. Woodard. This book was released on 2008-04-10. The Ancient Languages of Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book, derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages, describes the ancient languages of Europe, for the convenience of students and specialists working in that area. Each chapter of the work focuses on an individual language or, in some instances, a set of closely related varieties of a language. Providing a full descriptive presentation, each of these chapters examines the writing system(s), phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon of that language, and places the language within its proper linguistic and historical context. The volume brings together an international array of scholars, each a leading specialist in ancient language study. While designed primarily for scholars and students of linguistics, this work will prove invaluable to all whose studies take them into the realm of ancient language.
