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The World's Major Languages

Product Description: This volume features over fifty of the world's languages and language families. The featured languages have been chosen based on the number of speakers, their role as official languages and their cultural and historical importance...read more

By Bernard Comrie (editor)

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9781138169937 | Routledge, November 24, 2015, cover price $165.00 | About this edition: This volume features over fifty of the world's languages and language families.

9780415353397 | 2 edition (Routledge, January 15, 2009), cover price $240.00

9780195205213 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 28, 1987, cover price $89.00 | About this edition: Ranging from English, French, Spanish, and Russian, to Pashto, Tagalog, and Swahili, this comprehensive reference work provides a detailed guide to the world's forty major languages.

9780415045162 | 1 new edition (Routledge, March 26, 1987), cover price $500.00 | About this edition: This now classic description of the world's major languages and language families covers historical development, grammar, sound system, writing system and sociological factors.

Paperback:

9780415860147 | 2 revised edition (Routledge, May 22, 2013), cover price $44.95

9780415513258 | Reprint edition (Routledge, June 20, 2012), cover price $46.00

9780415609029 | 2 edition (Routledge, February 18, 2011), cover price $92.95

9780195065114 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, June 28, 1990), cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Ranging from English, French, Spanish, and Russian, to Pashto, Tagalog, and Swahili, this comprehensive reference work provides a detailed guide to the world's forty major languages.

Miscellaneous:

9780203301524 | 2 edition (Routledge, November 28, 2008), cover price $200.00

9780203214961 | Routledge, September 1, 2003, cover price $225.00

Valency Classes in the World's Languages: Case Studies from Austronesia, the Pacific, the Americas, and Theoretical Outlook

Product Description: The two volumes deal with cross-linguistic variation in valency classes in terms of argument coding and argument alternations. The first systematic typological attempt to uncover the universal and the language-particular in this area, the work includes synoptic introductory articles, 30 in-depth questionnaire-based studies of valency classes in languages from across the world, and featured articles by leading scholars who helped shape the field...read more

By Bernard Comrie (editor)

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9783110438444 | Mouton De Gruyter, August 28, 2015, cover price $280.00 | About this edition: The two volumes deal with cross-linguistic variation in valency classes in terms of argument coding and argument alternations.

Valency Classes in the World's Languages: Introducing the Framework, and Case Studies from Africa and Eurasia

By Bernard Comrie (editor)

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9783110332940 | Mouton De Gruyter, August 28, 2015, cover price $280.00

Language Contact and Documentation/ Contacto Linguistico Y Documentacion

By Bernard Comrie (editor) and Lucia Golluscio (editor)

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9783110317060 | Mul edition (Mouton De Gruyter, January 1, 2015), cover price $140.00

Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia: The State of the Art

Product Description: The studies in this book represent the rich, diverse and substantial research being conducted today in the linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia. Written by leading researchers in the field, and with an overview of current knowledge and new directions by the volume editors N J Enfield and Bernard Comrie, this book will serve as an authoritative source on where the linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia is at, and where it is heading...read more

By Bernard Comrie (editor)

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9781501508431 | Mouton De Gruyter, March 13, 2015, cover price $182.00 | About this edition: The studies in this book represent the rich, diverse and substantial research being conducted today in the linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia.

The Major Languages of Western Europe

Product Description: Based on Bernard Comrie's The World's Major Languages, this is a key guide to one of the major language families. The areas covered include Germanic languages, English, and Romance languages.

By Bernard Comrie (editor)

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9781138834361 | Reprint edition (Routledge, July 17, 2015), cover price $145.00 | About this edition: Based on Bernard Comrie's The World's Major Languages, this is a key guide to one of the major language families.

Paperback:

9780415047388 | Routledge, January 1, 1989, cover price $103.95

The Major Languages of East and South-east Asia

By Bernard Comrie (editor)

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9781138834354 | Reprint edition (Routledge, June 12, 2015), cover price $145.00

Paperback:

9780415047395 | 1 edition (Routledge, January 25, 1990), cover price $113.95

Studies in Ditransitive Constructions: A Comparative Handbook

Product Description: This rich volume explores the cross-linguistic variation in ditransitive constructions, syntactic patterns of 'give'-like verbs taking Agent, Theme and Recipient arguments. The volume includes a typological overview of ditransitive constructions, the editors' questionnaire, as well as 23 in-depth studies of ditransitive constructions in languages from all over the world, written by leading experts...read more

By Bernard Comrie (editor)

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9783110220360 | Mouton De Gruyter, December 30, 2010, cover price $349.00 | About this edition: This rich volume explores the cross-linguistic variation in ditransitive constructions, syntactic patterns of 'give'-like verbs taking Agent, Theme and Recipient arguments.

Introducing Maltese Linguistics: Selected Papers from the 1st International Conference on Maltese Linguistics, Bremen, 18-20 October, 2007

Product Description: This collection of articles highlights a selection of on-going research projects. Phonological, morphological, and syntactic issues are addressed by international experts on Maltese. The diachronic development of Maltese, its age-long contact with Italo-Romance, and the present diglossic situation with co-official English are the topics of a variety of contributions to this volume...read more

By Bernard Comrie (editor), Ray Fabri (editor), Elizabeth Hume (editor), Manwel Mifsud (editor) and Thomas Stolz (editor)

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9789027205803 | John Benjamins Pub Co, May 15, 2009, cover price $158.00 | About this edition: This collection of articles highlights a selection of on-going research projects.

The World Atlas Of Language Structures

Product Description: 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...read more

By Bernard Comrie, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil and Martin Haspelmath (editor)

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9780199255917 | Hardcover with CD edition (Oxford Univ Pr, October 6, 2005), cover price $855.00 | About this edition: The World Atlas of Language Structures is a book and CD combination displaying the structural properties of the world's languages.

The Major Languages of South Asia, the Middle East and Africa

By Bernard Comrie (editor)

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9780415057721 | 1 edition (Routledge, October 18, 1990), cover price $115.95

Miscellaneous:

9780203412336 | Routledge, October 4, 2003, cover price $100.00

The Slavonic Languages

By Bernard Comrie (editor) and Greville G. Corbett (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780415047555 | Routledge, November 1, 1993, cover price $440.00

Paperback:

9780415280785 | Routledge, July 26, 2002, cover price $99.95

Miscellaneous:

9780203213209 | Routledge, September 1, 2003, cover price $85.00

The Major Languages of Eastern Europe

By Bernard Comrie (editor)

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9780415057714 | 1 edition (Routledge, November 15, 1990), cover price $115.95

Miscellaneous:

9780203216149 | Routledge, September 1, 2003, cover price $100.00

The Atlas of Languages: The Origin and Development of Languages Throughout the World

Presents an introduction to languages and linguistics, including the evolution of over 200 languages, explanations of writing systems, language trees, and maps illustrating various aspects of all the language families. (view table of contents)

By Bernard Comrie (editor), Stephen Matthews (editor) and Maria Polinsky (editor)

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9780816051236 | Revised edition (Checkmark Books, May 1, 2003), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Presents an introduction to languages and linguistics, including the evolution of over 200 languages, explanations of writing systems, language trees, and maps illustrating various aspects of all the language families.

9780816033881 | Checkmark Books, December 1, 1996, cover price $35.00

Linguistic Borrowing in Bilingual Contexts

Product Description: A number of previous approaches to linguistic borrowing and contact phenomena in general have concluded that there are no formal boundaries whatsoever to the kinds of material that can pass from one language into another. At the same time, various hierarchies illustrate that some things are indeed more likely to be borrowed than others...read more

By Bernard Comrie (foreword by) and Fredric W. Field

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9781588112859 | John Benjamins Pub Co, January 1, 2003, cover price $165.00 | About this edition: A number of previous approaches to linguistic borrowing and contact phenomena in general have concluded that there are no formal boundaries whatsoever to the kinds of material that can pass from one language into another.

9780070565531, titled "Engineering Mechanics: Dynamics" | McGraw-Hill College, February 1, 1980, cover price $62.45 | also contains Engineering Mechanics: Dynamics, Linguistic Borrowing in Bilingual Contexts

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9780205274772, titled "Social Dance: From Dance a While" | Allyn & Bacon, December 1, 1997, cover price $32.60 | also contains Linguistic Borrowing in Bilingual Contexts, Social Dance: From Dance a While | About this edition: Drawing upon the success of Allyn and Bacon's Dance A While, this book concentrates on popular social dances in a comprehensive, affordable book.

Linguistic Borrowing in Bilingual Contexts

By Bernard Comrie (foreword by) and Fredric Field

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9789027230652 | John Benjamins Pub Co, December 13, 2002, cover price $165.00 | About this edition: A number of previous approaches to linguistic borrowing and contact phenomena in general have concluded that there are no formal boundaries whatsoever to the kinds of material that can pass from one language into another.

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Approaches to the Typology of Word Classes

Product Description: This book approaches word classes and their categorial manifestations from the perspective of typology and language universals research. The authors in this volume discuss word class categorization in general (Part I) as well as word classes and word class systems of individual languages (Part II) from a typological-universal viewpoint and from diachronic and cross-linguistic perspectives...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Bernard Comrie (editor) and Petra Maria Vogel (editor)

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9783110161021 | Mouton De Gruyter, July 1, 1999, cover price $252.00 | About this edition: The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field.

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9783110167832 | Mouton De Gruyter, June 1, 2000, cover price $56.00 | About this edition: This book approaches word classes and their categorial manifestations from the perspective of typology and language universals research.

Clitics in the Languages of Europe

Product Description: The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data...read more

By George Bosong (editor), Bernard Comrie (editor) and Henk C. Van Riemsdijk (editor)

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9783110157512 | Mouton De Gruyter, July 1, 1999, cover price $433.00 | About this edition: The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field.

The Russian Language in the Twentieth Century

By Bernard Comrie, Maria Polinsky and Gerald Stone

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9780198240662 | 2 sub edition (Clarendon Pr, May 23, 1996), cover price $215.00

Causatives And Transitivity

Product Description: This volume brings together 18 typological studies of causative and related constructions (transitivity, voice, other expressions of cause) by 19 scholars from North America, Western Europe, and Russia. The inspirations for the volume is the pioneering work on causative constructions by the Leningrad Typology Group; several of the contributors have close connections to the charter members of that group, others have appreciated this work from a distance...read more

By Bernard Comrie (editor) and Maria Polinsky (editor)

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9789027230263 | John Benjamins Pub Co, September 30, 2000, cover price $169.00 | About this edition: This volume brings together 18 typological studies of causative and related constructions (transitivity, voice, other expressions of cause) by 19 scholars from North America, Western Europe, and Russia.

9781556193750 | John Benjamins Pub Co, September 1, 1993, cover price $188.00

9780028703909, titled "Music Reference and Research Materials: An Annotated Bibliography" | 4th edition (Schirmer Books, December 1, 1988), cover price $39.95 | also contains Music Reference and Research Materials: An Annotated Bibliography | About this edition: Lists dictionaries, encyclopedias, histories, bibliographies, catalogs, and discographies essential to music research

Tense and Aspect in Eight Languages of Cameroon

By Stephen C. Anderson (editor) and Bernard Comrie (editor)

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9780883128084 | Summer Inst of Linguistics, August 1, 1991, cover price $20.00

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics III: Papers from the Third Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics

Product Description: This is the third in a continuing series of papers presented at the annual meetings of the Arabic Linguistic Society whose primary purpose is to provide a forum for the study of Arabic within current approaches in linguistics. The volume includes a section on Arabic in relation to other languages, with papers ranging from the importance of Arabic to general linguistic theory, and guttural phonology to Arabic loanwords in Acehnese, verbless sentences in Arabic and Hebrew, and a contrastive study of middle and unaccusative constructions in Arabic and English...read more

By Bernard Comrie and Mushira Eid (editor)

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9781556191350 | John Benjamins Pub Co, August 1, 1991, cover price $165.00 | About this edition: This is the third in a continuing series of papers presented at the annual meetings of the Arabic Linguistic Society whose primary purpose is to provide a forum for the study of Arabic within current approaches in linguistics.

The Fortunes of Liberalism: Essays on Austrian Economics and the Ideal of Freedom

By Bernard Comrie (editor)

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9780415406499 | 1 edition (Routledge, December 21, 1990), cover price $43.95

Language Universals and Linguistic Typology: Syntax and Morphology

By Bernard Comrie

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9780226114330 | 2 sub edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, July 15, 1989), cover price $32.00

Language Universals Linguistic Typology: Syntax and Morphology

Product Description: Adopting an approach to the subject pioneered by Greenberg and others, Professor Comrie is particularly concerned with syntactico-semantic universals. The book has chapters on word order, case marking, relative clauses and causative contruction and is informed throughout by the conviction that an explanatory account of universal properties of human language cannot restrict itself to purely formal aspects...read more

By Bernard Comrie

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9780631162568 | 2 edition (Blackwell Pub, March 1, 1989), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Adopting an approach to the subject pioneered by Greenberg and others, Professor Comrie is particularly concerned with syntactico-semantic universals.

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