The World's Major Languages - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 041560902X ISBN 13 : 9780415609029

Editeur : Routledge, 2011

Synopsis

This volume features over 50 of the world's languages and language families. The featured languages have been chosen based on the number of speakers, their role as official languages and their cultural and historical importance. Each language is looked at in depth, and the chapters provide information on both grammatical features and on salient features of the language's history and cultural role.

This second edition has been updated and revised. Two new languages, Amharic and Javanese, have been included.

This accessible volume will appeal to anyone with an interest in linguistics.

Key features:

• Attention is paid to both grammatical and sociolinguistic features
• Attention is concentrated on the world's major languages
• Designed to be accessible to all readers with an interest in language.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This volume features over fifty of the world's languages and language families. The featured languages have been chosen based on the number of speakers, their role as official languages and their cultural and historical importance. Each language is looked at in depth, and the chapters provide information on both grammatical features and on salient features of the language's history and cultural role. This second edition has been updated and revised. Two new languages, Amharic and Javanese, have been included. This accessible volume will appeal to anyone with an interest in linguistics.

Key features:

• Attention is paid to both grammatical and sociolinguistic features
• Attention is concentrated on the world's major languages
• Designed to be accessible to all readers with an interest in language.

Revue de presse

'This excellent, thorough resource has an unsurpassed amount of detail for a single-volume survey.' --S. L. Johnson, Eastern Illinois University, Choice Reviews

'Highly recommended. Academic libraries supporting lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers.'--S. L. Johnson, Eastern Illinois University, Choice Reviews

'Originally published in 1987, the second edition of this major handbook contains considerable enough amount of revision and new material to warrant its purchase by those libraries which invested in the original edition' -- Reference Reviews

'The Volume is well constructed for reference access as well as for more in-depth consultation' -- Reference Reviews

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 041560902X
• ISBN 13: 9780415609029
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 928
• Éditeur: Comrie Bernard
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible