The World's Major LanguagesBernard Comrie From English, French, Spanish and Russian to Pashto, Tagalog, and Swahili, this is the first comprehensive reference work to provide detailed information about the world's forty major languages. Written by acknowledged specialists in the field, the volume begins with a general introduction to language and language families, followed by language-family sections that provide an informative essay about that language, and individual chapters that discuss the history, distribution, syntax, grammar and punctuation, writing and spelling systems, standards of usage, and other important aspects of each language. |
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Contents | 24 |
IndoEuropean Languages | 33 |
Germanic Languages | 72 |
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accent accusative adjectives adverbs alternation aorist Arabic Bengali century clauses clitic Common Slavonic compound conjugation consonant Czech dative declension derived dialects diphthongs distinction Dutch example feminine final forms French fricative function gender genitive Germanic languages grammar Greek Hausa Hebrew High German imperfect indicative Indo-Aryan Indo-European Indo-European languages infinitive inflectional Iranian language Latin lexical lexicon linguistic loanwords locative marked marker masculine Middle Modern English morpheme morphology nasal nominative noun phrase object occur Old English Oscan palatalisation paradigms participle particle Pashto passive past perfect Persian person singular phonemic phonology plural Portuguese position prepositions present pronouns pronunciation Proto-Indo-European Romance Rumanian Russian Sanskrit semantic sentence Slavonic Slovak Spanish speakers spoken standard stem stress structure subjunctive suffix syllable syntactic syntax Tai languages Tamil tense third person variation velar verbal vocabulary voiced voiceless vowel Vulgar Latin word order