02924nam a2200265Ia 450000500170000000800410001724500320005870000200009026000300011025000080014030000240014830000110017250000190018302000220020265000260022465000380025065000280028805000120031654600120032850520220034052002610236233600090262333700150263233800110264720260803094100.0251212s2011    xx            000 0 und d1 aThe world's major language.0 aComrie, Bernard  aOxon :bRoutledge,c2011.  a2nd  axvi, 911 p.: bill.  c24 cm.  aIncludes index  a978-0-415-60902-9  aLanguage and language  aLanguage and languagesxEtymology  aSubject headingsxChart  a410 W89  aEnglish  aIndo-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 / Linda R. Waugh, Monique Monville-Burston -- 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 : Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian / Greville Corbett, Wayles Browne -- Greek / Brian D. Joseph -- Indo-Aryan languages / George Cardona, Silvia Luraghi -- Sanskrit / George Cardona, Silvia Luraghi -- Hindi-Urdu / Yamuna Kachru -- Bengali / M.H. Klaiman -- Iranian languages / J.R. Payne, Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari -- 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, Alan S. Kaye -- Arabic / Alan S. Kaye -- Hebrew / Robert Hetzron, Alan S. Kaye -- Amharic / Grover Hudson -- Hausa and the Chadic languages / Paul Newman -- Tamil and the Dravidian languages / Sanford B. Steever -- Tai languages / David Strecker -- Thai / Thomas John Hudak -- Vietnamese / ?i?nh-Hoa? Nguye??n -- Sino-Tibetan languages / Scott DeLancey -- Chinese / Charles N. Li, Sandra A. Thompson -- Burmese / Julian K. Wheatley -- Japanese / Masayoshi Shibatani -- Korean / Nam-Kil Kim -- Austronesian languages / Ross Clark -- Malay-Indonesian / Uri Tadmor -- Javanese / Michael P. Oakes -- Tagalog / Paul Schachter, Lawrence A. Reid -- Niger-Kordofanian languages / Douglas Pulleyblank -- Yoruba / Douglas Pulleyblank, O?lanike? O?la Orie -- Swahili and the Bantu languages / Benji Wald.  aFeatures over fifty of the world`s languages and language families. This volume provides information on both grammatical features and on salient features of the language`s history and cultural role. It is suitable for those with an interest in linguistics.  aText  aUnmediated  aVolume