Showing posts with label Languages. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Languages. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Motion, Direction and Location in Languages: In honor of Zygmunt Frajzyngier




Erin Shay, Uwe Seibert, “Motion, Direction and Location in Languages: In honor of Zygmunt Frajzyngier”
English | 2003 | ISBN: 9027229643 | PDF | pages: 320 | 25,6 mb


This book contributes to an area of study that is of interest to linguists of all backgrounds. Typological in nature this volume presents data analysis from the major language families of Africa as well as Sino-Tibetan, Austronesian, Japanese, Indo-European, Siouan and Penutian. The 16 contributors to the volume share a commitment to examining the language phenomena pertaining to the volume’s theme with a fresh eye. While most of the papers make reference to existing theoretical frameworks, each also makes a novel and sometimes surprising contribution to the body of knowledge and theory concerning motional, directional and locational predicates, complements, morphology, adpositions and other phenomena. This collection of articles suitably complements courses on comparative and diachronic linguistics, semantics, syntax, typology, or field methods.


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Saturday, April 23, 2016

The Languages of the World (3rd edition) (Repost)




The Languages of the World (3rd edition) By Kenneth Katzner
2002 | 400 Pages | ISBN: 0415250048 , 041525003X | PDF | 2 MB



This third edition of Kenneth Katzner’s best-selling guide to languages is essential reading for language enthusiasts everywhere. Written with the non-specialist in mind, its user-friendly style and layout, delightful original passages, and exotic scripts, will continue to fascinate the reader. This new edition has been thoroughly revised to include more languages, more countries, and up-to-date data on populations.


*information on nearly 600 languages
*individual descriptions of 200 languages, with sample passages and English translations
*concise notes on where each language is spoken, its history, alphabet and pronunciation
*coverage of every country in the world, its main language and speaker numbers
*an introduction to language families