Catálogo de libros: Lingüística histórica y comparada

794 Catálogo de libros: Lingüística histórica y comparada

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  • The Abuse of Language and the Language of Abuse
    J. Andrew Kirk / JAndrew Kirk
    The particular words, whose use and meaning is examined in this study, are commonly used by people with strong convictions about moral issues and identity politics. They are often attached to ideals, policies and practices in  diverse and frequently contradictory ways. Is there, then, so much confusion that the words no longer serve any useful purpose? Or, is there some merit i...
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    13,57 €

  • Thucydides’s Melian Dialogue and Sicilian Expedition
    Martha C. Taylor
    Best known for his account of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides (c. 454–c. 395 b.c.) was an Athenian general and historian. This valuable commentary addresses the most famous part of Thucydides’s narrative: the Sicilian Expedition (books 6–8.1), which resulted in a major defeat for Athens. Designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of Greek, Martha C. Taylor’s st...
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    49,10 €

  • The Figure of Beatrice - A Study in Dante
    Charles Williams
    ’The Figure of Beatrice’ is an analytical discussion of the character by the same name who features heavily in the writings of Dante. Originally published in 1943, Williams’ essay is a thought-provoking interpretation of Dante and both the human and divine aspects associated with love. Charles Williams (1886-1945) was a British theologian, playwright, novelist and poet. As a me...
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    25,59 €

  • Linguistic Ecology and Language Contact
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    150,49 €

  • Tool Intelligence as an Explanation of Cross-Linguistic Variation and Family Resemblance
    Anneliese Kuhle
    Tool Intelligence taps primatological and linguistic field research to draw an analogy between prelinguistic material cultures of nonhuman primates and natural human languages. Linguistics and cognitive science are given new incentives to search for cognitive homology in areas of extended problem awareness and manipulative intentionality. ...
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    121,92 €

  • Gaelic and English
    George McLennan
    This book sets out to illustrate the relationship between Gaelic and English words within the wider Indo-European context. Many Scots, finding Gaelic difficult, are unaware that much of Gaelic comes originally from the same source as English (and many other European languages), this origin being an early language of Europe and areas of the Indian sub-continent. Known as Indo-Eu...
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    13,61 €

  • Scots Gaelic
    George McLennan
    The purpose of this book is to provide a brief introduction to the Gaelic language with a selective discussion of its main features. In contrast to native speakers, who absorb the language as children, adults who are learning Gaelic from scratch often derive much benefitfrom knowing why the language takes its shape. 3 ...
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    12,40 €

  • A Gaelic Alphabet
    George McLennan
    The modern Gaelic alphabet has 18 letters - Gaelic simply needs a smaller alphabet to make its sounds. To pronounce Gaelic words correctly you need to know what the sounds of the letters are, particularly the sounds of combinations of letters. Using his knowledge of the conventions of the language and not a little humour, George McLennan offers a straightforward guide to the Ga...
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    12,27 €

  • The Emergence and Development of English
    Jr William A. Kretzschmar
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    39,94 €

  • Slogans Galore!
    George McLennan
    A handy reference guide to Gaelic-derived words and expressions in common usage in English. Like George McLennan’s previously successful book “Scots Gaelic - An Introduction to the Basics”, “Gaelic and English - Their Common Origins” and “A Gaelic Alphabet - A Guide to the Pronunciation of Gaelic Letters and Words”, this book will be a great help to anyone with an interest in t...
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    12,49 €

  • Accent, Rhythm and Meaning in French Verse
    Roger Pensom
    This book frames and tests a theory of the nature and role of accent and rhythm in French verse, and of their relationship with meaning. A clear and continuing tradition emerges, spanning a thousand years in the writing of poetry in French. Far from accent being irrelevant to metre, as is widely assumed, patterns of alternating accent prove indispensable for the perception of m...
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    133,11 €

  • Southern Regional French
    Damien Mooney
    Despite apparent interest in defining français régional since as early at the nineteenth century, we have been left wondering about the precise origins and changing nature of contemporary regional varieties of French, particularly in the south of France. Through an examination of linguistic transfer, in a situation of bilingualism, and of levelling and diffusion during dialect ...
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    15,86 €

  • Constructing Feminine to Mean
    Abdelkader Fassi Fehri
    Two core concepts are developed in this monograph. First is feminine, or the marked Gender, a property of concepts that are distinguished along dimensions of individuation and unitization, not necessarily sex. The second is unity, a property of singularities, pluralities, and quantities. ...
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    128,93 €

  • International Planned Languages. Essays on Interlinguistics and Esperantology
    Detlev Blanke
    The author of this book, the German interlinguist and Esperanto researcher Detlev Blanke (1941-2016), has influenced the study of planned languages like no one else. It is to a large extent due to his lifelong scholarly devotion to this area of research that Interlinguistics and Esperanto Studies (Esperantology) have become serious subjects of study in the academic world. In hi...
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    35,70 €

  • Wordstruck!
    Susanna Janssen
    Do languages and cultures fascinate you? Do you love words?Welcome to Susanna Janssen’s wondrous world of words.Wordstruck! will entertain you with a wealth of humorous and insightful reflections on language and cultures. Dive in anywhere and delve into everything from cockney slang to terms of endearment around the world; from the genius of Shakespeare to foreign translations ...
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    13,50 €

  • The Creole Debate
    John H. McWhorter
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    27,48 €

  • Language and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Russia
    Victor Zhivov / Marcus Levitt
    Victor Zhivov’s Language and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Russia is one of the most important studies ever published on eighteenth-century Russia. Historians and students of Russian culture agree that the creation of a Russian literary language was key to the formation of a modern secular culture, and this title traces the growth of a vernacular language from the 'hybrid Slavo...
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    29,85 €

  • Indigenous Languages, Politics, and Authority in Latin America
    This volume makes a vital and original contribution to a topic that lies at the intersection of the fields of history, anthropology, and linguistics. The book is the first to consider indigenous languages as vehicles of political orders in Latin America from the sixteenth century to the present, across regional and national contexts, including Peru, Mexico, Guatemala, and Parag...
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    60,98 €

  • The Creole Debate
    John H. McWhorter / John HMcWhorter
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    92,51 €

  • Language Variety in the New South
    Bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines to assess the use and meaning of language in the South, a region rich in dialects and variants, this comprehensive edited collection reflects the cutting-edge research presented at the fourth decennial meeting of Language Variety in the South in 2014. Focusing on the ongoing changes and surprising continuities associated wi...
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    126,20 €

  • Language Variety in the New South
    Bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines to assess the use and meaning of language in the South, a region rich in dialects and variants, this comprehensive edited collection reflects the cutting-edge research presented at the fourth decennial meeting of Language Variety in the South in 2014. Focusing on the ongoing changes and surprising continuities associated wi...
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    83,14 €

  • Linguistic Mysteries of Ethnonyms in Inner Asia
    Penglin Wang
    Linguistic Mysteries of Ethnonyms in Inner Asia is recommended for scholars of inner Asian languages, cultures, and history, and unravels the origin and meaning of many ethnonyms on the basis of language contact and cultural interaction between the Altaic and Indo-European people. ...
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    142,73 €

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Biolinguistics
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    52,08 €

  • Tropical Tongues
    Jennifer Carolina Gómez Menjívar / William Noel Salmon
    Tropical Tongues: Language Ideologies, Endangerment, and Minority Languages in Belize examines the precarious state of languages in coastal Belize. In the period following the country’s independence in 1981, Kriol has risen to the level of a national language. While the prestige enjoyed by English and Spanish is indisputable, a range of historical and socio-economic development...
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    12,60 €

  • The Unmasking of English Dictionaries
    R. M. W. Dixon / RMWDixon
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    29,49 €

  • The Unmasking of English Dictionaries
    R. M. W. Dixon / RMWDixon
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    101,91 €

  • Trees and Kings
    William R. Osborne
    The Old Testament prophets did not hesitate to use the rhetorical conventions accessible to them when delivering their sermons of salvation and judgment. One source of comparison used frequently in the prophets and widely throughout the ancient Near East is the image of a tree. In Trees and Kings, William Osborne evaluates the cultural and cognitive setting that potentially gav...
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    55,45 €

  • Doing Conceptual History in Africa
    Employing an innovative methodological toolkit, Doing Conceptual History in Africa provides a refreshingly broad and interdisciplinary approach to African historical studies. The studies assembled here focus on the complex role of language in Africa's historical development, with a particular emphasis on pragmatics and semantics. From precolonial dynamics of wealth and pove...
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    44,64 €

  • Dhatupatha Verbs in 5 Lakaras Vol3
    Ashwini Kumar Aggarwal
    The key to proper grasp of Sanskrit Grammar, especially the formation of Verbs from Roots, lies in a sound understanding of1. Maheshwar Sutras2. Pratyahara3. Place and Effort of Enunciation4. Homogeneous Letters5. Sandhi Rules6. Tag Letters of Dhatus    and last but not the least7. Knowing the FINAL Letter of each Dhatu and8. Knowing the PENULTIMATE Letter of each Dhatu.All of ...
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    26,57 €

  • Cloth As Metaphor
    G. F. Kojo Arthur
    Adinkra symbols visually integrate striking aesthetic power, evocative language and mathematical structures and philosophical concepts. The book views the adinkra cloth symbols as a writing system. It develops themes from the texts encoded in the proverbs, stories and maxims associated with the symbols. The themes covered include Akan cosmology, social and political organizatio...
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    39,35 €


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