The Sino-Tibetan Languages (Routledge Language Family) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138783323 ISBN 13: 9781138783324

Verlag: ROUTLEDGE, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

There are more native speakers of Sino-Tibetan languages than of any other language family in the world. Our records of these languages are among the oldest for any human language, and the amount of active research on them has multiplied in the last few decades.

Now in its second edition and fully updated to include new research, The Sino-Tibetan Languages includes overview articles on individual languages, with an emphasis on the less commonly described languages, as well as descriptions and comments on the subgroups in which they occur.

There are overviews of the whole family on genetic classification and language contact, syntax and morphology, and also on word order typology. There are also more detailed overview articles on the phonology, morphosyntax, and writing system of just the Sinitic side of the family. Supplementing these overviews are articles on Shanghainese, Cantonese and Mandarin dialects. Tibeto-Burman is reviewed by genetic or geographical sub-group, with overview articles on some of the major groups and areas, and there are also detailed descriptions of 41 individual Tibeto-Burman languages, written by world experts in the field.

Designed for students and researchers of Asian languages, The Sino-Tibetan Languages is a detailed overview of the field. This book is invaluable to language students, experts requiring concise, but thorough, information on related languages, and researchers working in historical, typological and comparative linguistics.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Graham Thurgood PhD is Professor Emeritus at California State University, Chico, USA.

Randy J. LaPolla PhD FAHA

is Professor of Linguistics at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: ROUTLEDGE
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1138783323
• ISBN 13: 9781138783324
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 1048
• Herausgeber: Lapolla Randy J., Thurgood Graham
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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