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The World Atlas of Language Structures
from: Oxford University Press, USA
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 415.90223
EAN: 9780199255917
ISBN: 0199255911
Label: Oxford University Press, USA
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 712
Publication Date: October 06, 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Studio: Oxford University Press, USA
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The World Atlas of Language Structures is a book and CD combination displaying the structural properties of the world's languages. 142 world maps and numerous regional maps - all in colour - display the geographical distribution of features of pronunciation and grammar, such as number of vowels, tone systems, gender, plurals, tense, word order, and body part terminology. Each world map shows an average of 400 languages and is accompanied by a fully referenced description of the structural feature in question. The CD provides an interactive electronic version of the database which allows the reader to zoom in on or customize the maps, to display bibliographical sources, and to establish correlations between features. The book and the CD together provide an indispensable source of information for linguists and others seeking to understand human languages. The Atlas will be especially valuable for linguistic typologists, grammatical theorists, historical and comparative linguists, and for those studying a region such as Africa, Southeast Asia, North America, Australia, and Europe. It will also interest anthropologists and geographers. More than fifty authors from many different countries have collaborated to produce a work that sets new standards in comparative linguistics. No institution involved in language research can afford to be without it.
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Rating: - Well-done, easy-to-read, well-indexed: this is a vital guide for the linguist
Having had a fascination with languages (to the extent of trying to invent my own) since childhood, textbook on understanding how languages work and how languages no longer spoken worked have always been a great fascination for me.
Although I had learned quite a bit about a number of the topics covered in this book, reading it on Google Books and more recently from a library has made me realise that this atlas really is almost all the reader needs ot really understand the basic of the ... Read More
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