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  • Insights into the Baltic and Finnic Languages

    Contacts, Comparisons, and Change

    Edited by Helle Metslang, Miina Norvik, Andra Kalnača ...
    Series Book 36 - Potsdam Linguistic Investigations / Potsdamer Linguistische Untersuchungen / Recherches Linguistiques à Potsdam
    This book includes twelve articles that present new research on the Finnic and Baltic languages spoken in the southern and eastern part of the Circum-Baltic area. It aims to elaborate on the various contact situations and (dis)similarities between the languages of the area. Taking an areal, comparative, or sociolinguistic perspective, the articles offer new insights into the grammatical, semantic, ... Read more

    $96.99 CAD

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    by Young-Key Kim-Renaud ...
    Series series Routledge Essential Grammars
    Korean: An Essential Grammar is a concise and convenient guide to the basic grammatical structure of standard Korean. Presenting a fresh and accessible description of the language, this engaging Grammar uses clear, jargon-free explanations and sets out the complexities of Korean in short, readable sections.Key features include:clear explanations of grammatical termsfrequent use of authentic ... Read more

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  • The Languages of Japan and Korea

    Edited by Nicolas Tranter ...
    Series series Routledge Language Family Series
    The Languages of Japan and Korea provides detailed descriptions of the major varieties of languages in the region, both modern and pre-modern, within a common format, producing a long-needed introductory reference source. Korean, Japanese, Ainu, and representative members of the three main groupings of the Ryukyuan chain are discussed for the first time in a single work.The volume is divided into ... Read more

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  • Understanding Morphology

    by Martin Haspelmath, Andrea Sims ...
    Series series Understanding Language
    This new edition of Understanding Morphology has been fully revised in line with the latest research. It now includes 'big picture' questions to highlight central themes in morphology, as well as research exercises for each chapter.Understanding Morphology presents an introduction to the study of word structure that starts at the very beginning. Assuming no knowledge of the field of morphology on ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Functional Structure(s), Form and Interpretation

    Perspectives from East Asian Languages

    Edited by Andrew Simpson, Audrey-Li Yen-hui ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Asian Linguistics
    The issue of how interpretation results from the form and type of syntactic structures present in language is one which is central and hotly debated in both theoretical and descriptive linguistics. This volume brings together a series of eleven new cutting-edge essays by leading experts in East Asian languages which shows how the study of formal structures and functional morphemes in Chinese, ... Read more

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  • Grammaticalization and Language Change in Chinese

    A formal view

    by Xiu-Zhi Zoe Wu ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Asian Linguistics
    This innovative study on the phenomenon of 'grammaticalization' and its manifestation in Chinese provides new insights into language change in Chinese and a large number of grammatical topics. Grammaticalization occurs in all of the world's languages. Xiu-Zhi Zoe Wu demonstrates general linguistic principles present and active in the phenomenon of grammaticalization whilst also describing the ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Finnish

    by Jukka K. Korpela ...
    This is an extensive manual of the Finnish language. It is an ideal source of information when you wish to learn about some specific features of Finnish, such as pronunciation, word formation, notational conventions, or verb forms, even with minimal or no previous understanding of the language. It is intended primarily for people who study, learn, or use Finnish as a foreign language. It is ... Read more

    $39.90 CAD

  • Historical Linguistics

    Toward a Twenty-First Century Reintegration

    by Don Ringe, Joseph F. Eska ...
    Bringing the advances of theoretical linguistics to the study of language change in a systematic way, this innovative textbook demonstrates the mutual relevance of historical linguistics and contemporary linguistics. Numerous case studies throughout the book show both that theoretical linguistics can be used to solve problems where traditional approaches to historical linguistics have failed to ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Morphology

    Edited by Andrew Hippisley, Gregory Stump ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
    The Cambridge Handbook of Morphology describes the diversity of morphological phenomena in the world's languages, surveying the methodologies by which these phenomena are investigated and the theoretical interpretations that have been proposed to explain them. The Handbook provides morphologists with a comprehensive account of the interlocking issues and hypotheses that drive research in ... Read more

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  • The Mongolic Languages

    Edited by Juha Janhunen ...
    Series series Routledge Language Family Series
    Once the rulers of the largest land empire that has ever existed on earth, the historical Mongols of Chinggis Khan left a linguistic heritage which today survives in the form of more than a dozen different languages, collectively termed Mongolic. For general linguistic theory, the Mongolic languages offer interesting insights to problems of areal typology and structural change. An understanding of ... Read more

    $157.99 CAD

  • Between Syntax and Semantics

    by C.T. James Huang ...
    Series series Routledge Leading Linguists
    This indispensable volume contains articles that represent the best of Huang's work on the syntax-semantics interface over the last two decades. It includes three general topics: (a) questions, indefinites and quantification, (b) anaphora, (c) lexical structure and the syntax of events. ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Handbook of Historical Syntax

    Edited by Adam Ledgeway, Ian Roberts ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
    Change is an inherent feature of all aspects of language, and syntax is no exception. While the synchronic study of syntax allows us to make discoveries about the nature of syntactic structure, the study of historical syntax offers even greater possibilities. Over recent decades, the study of historical syntax has proven to be a powerful scientific tool of enquiry with which to challenge and ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD