Overview
Unique in scope, An Introduction to the Languages of the World introduces linguistics students to the variety of world's languages. Students will gain familiarity with concepts such as sound change, lexical borrowing, diglossia, and language diffusion, and the rich variety of linguistic structure in word order, morphological types, grammatical relations, gender, inflection, and derivation. It offers the opportunity to explore structures of varying and fascinating languages even with no prior acquaintance. A chapter is devoted to each of the world's continents, with in-depth analyses of representative languages of Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, and America, and separate chapters cover writing systems and pidgins and creoles. Each chapter contains exercises and recommendations for further reading. New to this edition are eleven original maps as well as sections on sign languages and language death and revitalization. For greater readability, basic language facts are now organized in tables, and language samples follow international standards for phonetic transcription and word-by-word glossing.There is an instructor's manual available for registered instructors on the book's companion website.
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Author: Anatole Lyovin (Rector of the Holy Theotokos, Rector of the Holy Theotokos, Iveron Russian Orthodox Church, Honolulu, Hawaii) ,
Brett Kessler (Associate Professor Emeritus of Psychology in Arts & Sciences, Associate Professor Emeritus of Psychology in Arts & Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis) ,
William Leben (Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, Stanford University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:
Width: 23.10cm
, Height: 3.10cm
, Length: 15.50cm
Weight: 0.794kg
ISBN: 9780195149883
ISBN 10: 0195149882
Pages: 544
Publication Date: 19 January 2017
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
""This book is an important pedagogical resource, presenting in succinct form information on the classification of the world's languages into language families and on the major structural types with regard to a wide range of phonological, morphological, and syntactic phenomena, as well as detailed presentations of languages selected to illustrate interaction of structural features as they occur in texts."" --Bernard Comrie, Distinguished Professor of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara ""The second edition of An Introduction to the Languages of the World is a leap forward. I welcome the chapter on writing systems and the language sketches. The book stresses the diversity of the world's languages and is well balanced across the globe. The decision to use ISO coding for language names, now the standard nomenclature for languages, is also welcome. Altogether, a fine achievement."" --Mark Aronoff, Distinguished Professor of Linguistics, Stony Brook University
This book is an important pedagogical resource, presenting in succinct form information on the classification of the world's languages into language families and on the major structural types with regard to a wide range of phonological, morphological, and syntactic phenomena, as well as detailed presentations of languages selected to illustrate interaction of structural features as they occur in texts. --Bernard Comrie, Distinguished Professor of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara The second edition of <em>An Introduction to the Languages of the World</em> is a leap forward. I welcome the chapter on writing systems and the language sketches. The book stresses the diversity of the world's languages and is well balanced across the globe. The decision to use ISO coding for language names, now the standard nomenclature for languages, is also welcome. Altogether, a fine achievement. --Mark Aronoff, Distinguished Professor of Linguistics, Stony Brook University
This book is an important pedagogical resource, presenting in succinct form information on the classification of the world's languages into language families and on the major structural types with regard to a wide range of phonological, morphological, and syntactic phenomena, as well as detailed presentations of languages selected to illustrate interaction of structural features as they occur in texts. --Bernard Comrie, Distinguished Professor of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara The second edition of An Introduction to the Languages of the World is a leap forward. I welcome the chapter on writing systems and the language sketches. The book stresses the diversity of the world's languages and is well balanced across the globe. The decision to use ISO coding for language names, now the standard nomenclature for languages, is also welcome. Altogether, a fine achievement. --Mark Aronoff, Distinguished Professor of Linguistics, Stony Brook University
This book is an important pedagogical resource, presenting in succinct form information on the classification of the world's languages into language families and on the major structural types with regard to a wide range of phonological, morphological, and syntactic phenomena, as well as detailed presentations of languages selected to illustrate interaction of structural features as they occur in texts. --Bernard Comrie, Distinguished Professor of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara The second edition of An Introduction to the Languages of the World is a leap forward. I welcome the chapter on writing systems and the language sketches. The book stresses the diversity of the world's languages and is well balanced across the globe. The decision to use ISO coding for language names, now the standard nomenclature for languages, is also welcome. Altogether, a fine achievement. --Mark Aronoff, Distinguished Professor of Linguistics, Stony Brook University
Author Information
Anatole Lyovin is retired Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Brett Kessler is Associate Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Washington University in St. Louis. William Leben is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at Stanford University.
