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Familles de langues Routledge

Cette série explore en profondeur les structures complexes des principales familles de langues du monde, offrant des analyses linguistiques complètes. Chaque volume, rédigé par des spécialistes, examine systématiquement la phonologie, la morphologie, la syntaxe, le lexique, la sémantique, la dialectologie et la sociolinguistique. Les lecteurs bénéficieront de bibliographies complètes, d'index, de tableaux et de cartes conçus pour l'étude comparative entre les langues. C'est une ressource indispensable pour quiconque est fasciné par la structure et l'évolution du langage.

The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar
The Iranian languages
The Mayan Languages

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  • The Mayan Languages

    • 790pages
    • 28 heures de lecture

    The Mayan Languages presents a comprehensive survey of the language family associated with the Classic Mayan civilization (AD 200-900), a family whose individual languages are still spoken today by at least six million indigenous Maya in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras. This unique resource is an ideal reference for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of Mayan languages and linguistics. Written by a team of experts in the field, The Mayan Languages presents in-depth accounts of the linguistic features that characterize the thirty-one languages of the family, their historical evolution, and the social context in which they are spoken.The Mayan Languages: provides detailed grammatical sketches of approximately a third of the Mayan languages, representing most of the branches of the family; includes a section on the historical development of the family, as well as an entirely new sketch of the grammar of "Classic Maya" as represented in the hieroglyphic script; provides detailed state-of-the-art discussions of the principal advances in grammatical analysis of Mayan languages; includes ample discussion of the use of the languages in social, conversational, and poetic contexts. Consisting of topical chapters on the typology, history, sociolinguistics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and acquisition of the Mayan languages, this book will be a resource for researchers and other readers with an interest in historical linguistics, linguistic anthropology, language acquisition, and linguistic typology

    The Mayan Languages
  • 'This is the volume I wish I'd had when Iranian languages first aroused my interest nearly 40 years ago!' - Bernard Comrie, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany The Iranian Languages is divided into 15 chapters. The introductory chapters by the editor present a general overview and a detailed discussion of the linguistic typology of Iranian. The individual chapters which follow are written by leading experts in the field. These provide the reader with concise, non-technical descriptions of a range of Iranian languages. Each chapter follows the same pattern and sequence of topics, taking the reader through the significant features not only of phonology and morphology but also of syntax; from phrase level to complex sentences and pragmatics. This unique resource is the ideal companion for undergraduate and postgraduate students of linguistics and language. It will also be of interest to researchers or anyone with an interest in historical linguistics, linguistics anthropology and language development.

    The Iranian languages