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Reduplication in South Asian Languages - An Areal, Typological and Historical Study

By: Abbi Anvia

Price: NZ$87.00

Publisher: New Delhi, Allied Publishers: (1992)

Seller ID: 22299

ISBN: 8170233100

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Previous owner's inscription on title page.; xxii, 193, [1 (blank)] pages. Papered boards with blue and black lettering on front board. Page dimensions: 234 x 151mm. "Research conducted by the author shows, for the first time, that word reduplication is one of the major South Asian Areal Universals which goes a long way towards defining the Indian linguistic area. Dr. Abbi is the first Indian linguist to map the pan-Indian dimensions of the phenomenon of reduplication. Data was drawn from all the four language-families spoken in the subcontinent, i.e. Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Austro-Asiatic and ...
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Koguryo - The Language of Japan's Continental Relatives - An Introduction to the Historical-Comparative Study of the Japanese-Koguryoic Languages With a Preliminary Description of Archaic Northeastern Middle Chinese

By: Beckwith, Christopher I.

Price: NZ$87.00

Publisher: Leiden, Brill: 2004

Seller ID: 22313

ISBN: 9004139494

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Previous owner's name. Some pencil underlining and marginalia. ; xxi, [1], 224 pages. Blue boards with white lettering on spine and front board, red illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 239 x 155mm. Series: Brill's Japanese Studies Library, Volume 21.
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Languages in Contact

By: Gilbers, Dicky; John Nerbonne & Jos Schaeken (editors)

Price: NZ$100.00

Publisher: Amsterdam, Rodopi: 2000

Seller ID: 22316

ISBN: 9042013222

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

No signatures.; [12], 339, [1 (blank)] pages. Printed papered boards. Page dimensions: 225 x 147mm. Papers by various contributors. "The present volume includes papers that were presented at the conference 'Languages in Contact' at the University of Groningen (25-26 November 1999)" - from the Introduction, page 1. Series: Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics, Volume 28.
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The Structure of the Japanese Language

By: Kuno, Susumu

Price: NZ$94.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Mass., The MIT Press: (1973)

Seller ID: 22317

ISBN: 0262110490

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Previous owner's name. Some fading to dust-jacket spine, and rubbing at head of dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; First printing. xi, [1], 410, [2 (blank)] pages. Brown cloth boards with silver lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 227 x 150mm. Text in English. "This book reveals a wide variety of semantic and syntactic factors (some of them not vrey well known to linguists working on English) that control the usage of certain grammatical patterns. It also shows what kinds of sentences the linguist working on a nonnative language should check with native speaker...
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Defining a Linguistic Area - South Asia

By: Masica, Colin P.

Price: NZ$87.00

Publisher: Chicago, The University of Chicago Press: 1976

Seller ID: 22304

ISBN: 0226509443

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

Previous owner's name. Dust-jacket has an abrasion along 100mm of the rear flap fold, and a 15mm chip to margin of rear panel. Fading to dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; xiii, [1], 234 pages. Yellow boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 215 x 138mm. "This book is a seminal study of the concept of 'linguistic area.' Colin Masica explores the theoretical preciseness of this notion and, in addition, offers a concrete case study of the geographic patterning exhibited by particular South Asian linguistic traits. [. . .] The specific problem selecte...
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Give - A Cognitive Linguistic Study

By: Newman, John

Price: NZ$110.00

Publisher: Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter: 1996

Seller ID: 22305

ISBN: 3110148943

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Previous owner's name. Some shelf rubbing to ends of spine.; xv, [2], 319, [3 (blank)] pages. Yellow boards with black stripe across middle of spine and boards. Page dimensions: 230 x 153mm. "This book is an investigation into the properties of 'give' verbs across languages, carried out within the framework which has come to be known as cognitive linguistics." - from the Preface. Series: Cognitive Linguistics Research, Number 7.
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The Linguistics of Sitting, Standing, and Lying

By: Newman, John (editor)

Price: NZ$168.75

Publisher: Amsterdam, John Benjamins Publishing Company: 1999

Seller ID: 22315

ISBN: 9027229570

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

No signatures.; xii, 407, [2], [3 (blank)] pages. Brown boads with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 220 x 145mm. Papers by various contributors. "The volume was envisaged as being a continuation, in some ways, of the approach adopted in an earlier volume 'The Linguistics of Giving' (Newman 1997)." - from the Preface, page vii. Series: Typological Studies in Language (TSL), Volume 51.
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Amele

By: Roberts, John R.

Price: NZ$120.00

Publisher: London, Croom Helm: (1987)

Seller ID: 22312

ISBN: 0709942546

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

[6], 393, [1 (blank)] pages. Red boards with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 215 x 136mm. A grammar of the Amele language. "The Amele people inhabit an area of approximately 120 square kilometers between the Gum and Gogol rivers just south of th town of Madang in Papua New Guinea. The area extends from the coast to about 14 kilometres inland." - page 8. Series: Croom Helm Descriptive Grammars.
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Clitics in the Languages of Europe

By: van Riemsdijk, Henk (editor)

Price: NZ$337.00

Publisher: Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter: 1999

Seller ID: 22314

ISBN: 3110157519

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

No signatures.; xxii, 1026 pages + [2] pages advertisements. Blue-green cloth boards with black panel and white rule on spine, white lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 230 x 151mm. Papers by various contributors. "When I was first approached with the suggestion that I coordinate one of the groups in the EUROTYP project, I was surprised on two counts." - from the Preface, page ix. Series: Empirical Approaches to Language Typlology, Eurotyp 20-5.
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Category: Linguistics