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    The World's major languages / edited by Bernard Comrie.

    • Title:The World's major languages / edited by Bernard Comrie.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Comrie, Bernard, 1947-
    • Published/Created:New York : Oxford University Press, 1987.
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      • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY reference (non-circulating) (Floor 2)Where is this?
      • Call Number: P371 .W6 1987
      • Number of Items:1
      • Status:Available
       
    • Library of Congress Subjects:Language and languages.
    • Medical Subjects: Language
    • Genre/Form:Reference works.
    • Description:xiii, 1, 025 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
    • Summary:Detailed guide to the world's forty major languages with full historical, sociological, and linguistic information.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:0195205219
      9780195205213
    • Contents:Introduction / Bernard Comrie
      Part I: Indo-European languages / Philip Baldi
      Germanic languages / John A Hawkins
      English / Edward Finegan
      German / John A Hawkins
      Dutch / Jan G Kooij
      Danish, Norwegian and Swedish / Einar Haugen
      Latin and the Italic languages / R G G Coleman
      Romantic languages / John N Green
      French / Martin Harris
      Spanish / John N Green
      Portuguese / Stephen Parkinson
      Italian / Nigel Vincent
      Rumanian / Graham Mallinson
      Slavonic languages / Bernard Comrie
      Russian / Bernard Comrie
      Polish / Gerald Stone
      Czech and Slovak / David Short
      Serbo-Croat / Greville Corbett
      Greek / Brian D Joseph
      Indo-Aryan languages / George Cardona
      Sanskrit / George Cardona
      Hindi-Urdu / Yamuna Kachru
      Bengali / M H Klaiman
      Iranian languages / J R Payne
      Persian / Gernot L Windfuhr
      Pashto / D N Mackenzie
      Part II: Uralic languages / Robert Austerlitz
      Hungarian / Daniel Abondolo
      Finnish / Michael Branch
      Part III: Turkish and the Turkic languages / Jaklin Kornfilt
      Part IV: Afroasiatic languages / Robert Hetzron
      Semitic languages / Robert Hetzron
      Arabic / Alan S Kaye
      Hebrew / Robert Hetzron
      Hausa and the Chadic languages / Paul Newman
      Part V: Tamil and the Dravidian languages / Sanford B Steever
      Part VI: Tai languages / David Strecker
      Thai / Thomas John Hudak
      Part VII: Vietnamese / Đình-Hoà Nguyen
      Part VIII: Sino-Tibetan languages / Scott Delancey
      Chinese / Charles N Li and Sandra A Thompson
      Burmese / Julian K Wheatley
      Part IX: Japanese / Masayoshi Shibatani
      Part X: Korean / Nam-Kil Kim
      Part XI: Austronesia languages / Ross Clark
      Malay (Indonesian and Malaysian) / D J Prentice
      Tagalog / Paul Schachter
      Part XII: Niger-Kordfanian languages / Douglas Pulleyblank
      Yoruba / Douglas Pulleyblank
      Swahili and the Bantu languages / Benji Wald.
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