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An Introduction to the Languages of the World - Couverture souple

Lyovin, Anatole V.

 
9780195081169: An Introduction to the Languages of the World
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0195081161 ISBN 13 : 9780195081169
Editeur : Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 1997

Synopsis

An Introduction to the Languages of the World is a text designed to introduce beginning linguistics students, who now typically come to their study with little background in languages, to the variety of the languages of the world.

Lyovin begins by explaining the classification of languages, discussing not only genetic classification but typological and sociolinguistic classification as well. He follows this with an explication of the classification of writing systems. A chapter is then devoted to each of the world's continents, with in-depth analyses of representative languages of Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, and America. A separate chapter is devoted to pidgins and creoles. Each chapter includes student exercises and suggestions for further readings.

"The author succeeds in covering a broad range of important and interesting information, and I am not aware of any other work that could serve as an all-round textbook for a course on The Languages of the World". --Bernard Comrie, Linguistics, USC; author of The World's Major Languages (OUP)

"clearly exhibits the author's very considerable erudition in several languages areas". Joseph Grimes, Linguistics, Cornell

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Présentation de l'éditeur

An Introduction to the Languages of the World is a text designed to introduce beginning linguistics students, who now typically come to their study with little background in languages, to the variety of the languages of the world. Lyovin begins by explaining the classification of languages, discussing not only genetic classification but typological and sociolinguistic classification as well. He follows this with an explication of the classification of writing systems. A chapter is then devoted to each of the world's continents, with in-depth analyses of representative languages of Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, and America. A separate chapter is devoted to pidgins and creoles. Each chapter includes student exercises and suggestions for further readings. "The author succeeds in covering a broad range of important and interesting information, and I am not aware of any other work that could serve as an all-round textbook for a course on The Languages of the World". --Bernard Comrie, Linguistics, USC; author of The World's Major Languages (OUP) "clearly exhibits the author's very considerable erudition in several languages areas". Joseph Grimes, Linguistics, Cornell

Revue de presse

The author succeeds in covering a broad range of important and interesting information, and I am not aware of any other work that could serve as an all-round textbook for a course on the Languages of the World. (Bernard Comrie, University of Southern California, author of The World's Major Languages)

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
Date d'édition
1997
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0195081161
ISBN 13 
9780195081169
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
516
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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