An Introduction to the Languages of the World
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 29 May 1997
- ISBN 9780195081169
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages512 pages
- Size 155x233x31 mm
- Weight 862 g
- Language English
- Illustrations line figures, tables 0
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Short description:
This is a text designed to introduce linguistic students to the variety of the languages of the world. He explains the classification of languages, of writing systems, and devotes a chapter to each of the world's continents.
MoreLong description:
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
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.
Table of Contents:
Classification of Languages
Classification of Writing Systems
Languages of Europe
Languages of Asia
Languages of Oceania
Native Languages of the Americas
Pidgins and Creoles
Appendices: Maps
