Leiden: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, 1999. — 449 p.<div class="bb-sep"></div>From a spoken to a written language: The introduction and development of literary Urmia Aramaic in the nineteenth century.<div class="bb-sep"></div>Описание развития литературного урмийского ("ассирийского")
Spoken and Written Language
✍ Scribed by M. A. K. Halliday
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Year
- 1989
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 63
- Edition
- 2nd
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
This books identifies the important differences between speaking and writing. Halliday leads the reader from the development of speech in infancy, through an account of writing systems, to a comparative treatment of spoken and written language, contrasting the prosodic features and grammatical intricacy of speech with the high lexical density and grammatical metaphor or writing.
✦ Subjects
Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Общее языкознание;
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