The Palaungic Languages: Classification, Reconstruction and Comparative Lexicon

Australian Languages: Classification and

📁 Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method

✍ Claire Bowern, Harold Koch (Eds.) 📂 Library 📅 2004 🏛 John Benjamins 🌐 English

This book addresses controversial issues in the application of the comparative method to the languages of Australia which have recently come to international prominence. Are these languages 'different' in ways that challenge the fundamental assumptions of historical linguistics? Can subgrouping be s

A Comparative Semitic Lexicon of the Pho

📁 A Comparative Semitic Lexicon of the Phoenician and Punic Languages

✍ Richard S. Tomback 📂 Library 📅 1978 🏛 Scholars Press 🌐 English

Etymological and comparative lexicon of

📁 Etymological and comparative lexicon of the Tamil language. Volume I. Part III

✍ Prakasar Gnana S. 📂 Library

Thirumakai Press, Chunnakam, 1941. — 106 p.<div class="bb-sep"></div>This new comprehensive Tamil-English-Tamil lexicon is compiled on a philological basis. In it all tamil words - and incidentally those of the other Dravidian dialects - together with morphological elements are traced to their roots

Discourse and the Construction of Societ

📁 Discourse and the Construction of Society: Comparative Studies of Myth, Ritual, and Classification

✍ Bruce Lincoln 📂 Library 📅 1989 🏛 Oxford University Press, USA 🌐 English

In this bold theoretical work, Bruce Lincoln explores the ways in which myth, ritual, and classification hold human societies together--and how, in times of crisis, they can be used to take a society apart and reconstruct it. Without overlooking the role of coercive force in the maintenance (or over

Formulaic Language and the Lexicon

📁 Formulaic Language and the Lexicon

✍ Alison Wray 📂 Library 📅 2002 🌐 English

A considerable proportion of our everyday language is "formulaic". It is predictable in form and idiomatic--apparently stored in fixed or semi-fixed chunks. This book explores the nature and purposes of formulaic language, and looks for patterns across the research findings from the fields of discou

Formulaic Language and the Lexicon

📁 Formulaic Language and the Lexicon

✍ Alison Wray 📂 Library 📅 2002 🌐 English

A considerable proportion of our everyday language is "formulaic". It is predictable in form and idiomatic--apparently stored in fixed or semi-fixed chunks. This book explores the nature and purposes of formulaic language, and looks for patterns across the research findings from the fields of discou