Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. — xviii + 278 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107-00278-4; ISBN: 978-0-521-17577-7. This very readable book about the languages of the world written by Asya Pereltsvaig (Stanford University, California) is presented with a list of questions: What do all human languages have in common and in what ways are they different? How can language be used to...
Ann Arbor - New York: Beech Stave Press, 2004. — xviii + 138 p. — ISBN: 0-9747927-0-5. A Dictionary of the Lycian Language by H. Craig Melchert is the first and only comprehensive dictionary in English of the Anatolian language Lycian, and represents the author’s thoroughgoing revision of his originally self-published and limitedly available Lycian Lexicon . A Dictionary of the...
Berlin-New York: Mouton de Gruyter. — 247 p. А reference etymological dictionary of the Hittite language with a lot of textual data, Vol. 1 (words beginning with A), first part of a single book containing vol. 1 (A) and vol. 2 (E-I). The Hittite Etymological Dictionary is a comprehensive compendium of the vocabulary of Hittite, one of the great languages of the Ancient Near East,...
Berlin; New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2005. — x + 496 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Documentation [TiLDOC] 23). This volume is the first comprehensive comparative dictionary to cover the whole of the Chukotko-Kamchatkan family. The genealogical status of this family (whether from a common source or due to convergence) has long been controversial, but its coherence as a family can...
Puhvel, Jaan (2001), Hittite Etymological Dictionary , vol. 5, Berlin-New York: Mouton de Gruyter. The fifth volume of this reference work contains the Hittite words beginning with L (pp. 1-131), Corrections and Additions to volumes 1, 2, 3 and 4 (pp. 133-145) and an Index to volumes 1-5 (pp. 147-187).
Puhvel, Jaan (2004), Hittite Etymological Dictionary , vol. 6, Berlin-New York: Mouton de Gruyter. The sixth volume of this reference work contains the Hittite words beginning with M (pp. 1-200), Corrections and Additions to volumes 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 (pp. 201-214) and "An Eye on the Second Half", from - nu(t) to zakkar (pp. 215-216).
Йошкар-Ола: СТРИНГ, 2009. — 115 с. The fourth volume of Valerij Ivanovič Veršenin’s etymological dictionary of the Mordvin(ian) languages extends from p. 366 (starting from Moksha пиледемс = Russian обмануть ‘to deceive, to cheat, to trick, to defraud, to fool’) up to p. 467 (the last word being Erzya and Moksha уштомс = Russian (за)топить (печь) ‘to light (a stove), to kindle the...
Puhvel, Jaan (1984), Hittite Etymological Dictionary , vol. 1 & 2, Berlin-New York: Mouton de Gruyter, is a reference etymological dictionary of the Hittite language with a lot of textual data, Vol. 2 (words beginning with E and I), second part of a single book containing vol. 1 (A) and vol. 2 (E-I), is a 256 page long volume (pp. 249-504).
Puhvel, Jaan (2007), Hittite Etymological Dictionary , vol. 7, Berlin-New York: Mouton de Gruyter. The seventh volume of this reference work contains the Hittite words beginning with N (pp. 1-135), Corrections and Additions to volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 5 (pp. 137-156) and "An eye on the second half".
Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2006 ‒ xviii + 472 pp. ‒ ISBN: 0-415-11104-8 (hbk) First published in 1997 this handbook of the Romance dialects of Italy (Corsica included) is the outcome of the collective work of a lot of expert (mainly Italian) linguists. The editors, Martin Maiden (university of Oxford) and Mair Parry (now Professor Emerita of Bristol University), have organized...
Puhvel, Jaan (1991), Hittite Etymological Dictionary , vol. 3, Berlin-New York: Mouton de Gruyter. The third volume of this reference work in Hittite etymology deals with Hittite words beginning with H. This 461 page long volume contains also Corrections and Additions to volumes 1 and 2 (pp. 443-461).
Translated from Spanish by Francisca Rojas del Canto. — Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2005 — xx + 345 p. — ISBN: 90-04-12835-2. English version of Adrados’ Historia de la lengua griega , Madrid: Editorial Gredos, 1999. As the author writes: “My aim is to write a balanced history of the Greek language, leaning neither towards ancient nor medieval or Modern Greek. Also, I will explore...
PhD thesis. — Canberra: Australian National University, 1999. — xxiv + 386 p. The aim of this work is to produce the first fieldwork-based, typologically informed reference grammar of Chukchi, an indigenous language of the north-eastern corner of the Russian Federation. The theoretical approach is low-key and eclectic; linguistic phenomena are described in a manner which is, in...
Puhvel, Jaan (1997), Hittite Etymological Dictionary , vol. 4, Berlin-New York: Mouton de Gruyter. The fourth volume of this reference work contains the Hittite words beginning with K (pp. 1-315) and Corrections and Additions to volumes 1, 2 and 3 (pp. 317-333).
Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 — xvi + 260 p. — ISBN: 978–1–4039–4316–3 hardback. The field of emotions in multiple languages is by nature highly interdisciplinary including neurobiology, psycho-evolutionary theory, cognitive psychology, social and cultural psychology, anthropology, cognitive linguistics and various areas of applied linguistics and...
Йошкар-Ола: СТРИНГ, 2011. — 83 с. The fifth volume of Valerij Ivanovič Veršenin’s etymological dictionary of the Mordvin(ian) languages extends from p. 474 (starting from Moksha фала = Russian хвастун ‘blowhard, hotshot, braggart, boaster’) up to p. 527 (the last word being Moksha яштерь = Russian яловая; голодный, неурожайный ‘dry cow, barren cow; hungry, with poor harvest’),...
Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016 — xxi + 561 p. — ISBN: 978-1-349-57703-3, ISBN: 978-1-137-34839-5 (eBook), ISBN: 978–1–137–34838–8 (hardback). Languages are artefacts of culture, meaning they are created by people. They are often used for identity building and maintenance, but in Central and Eastern Europe they became the basis of nation building and...
Berlin-New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2011. — 232 p.
The eighth volume contains the words beginning with pa - (pp. 1-208), plus corrections and additions to volumes 1-7 (pp. 209-221).
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2006. — XLIV + 599 (643) p. — (Pacific Linguistics 579). Main editor Paul Sidwell, Assisting editors Doug Cooper and Christian Bauer. Harry Leonard Shorto (1919-1995) was a British philologist and linguist who specialized on the Mon language and Mon-Khmer studies. Shorto was the author of two...
Bern; München, Francke Verlag, 1959. — 360 (1183) p.
Pokorny's etymological dictionary (IEW) is a landmark in Proto-Indo-European lexicography. After more than half a century it is a very useful tool of reference even though the Hittite and Tocharian citations are scanty and notwithstanding the author's refusal of accepting the laryngeal interpretation of Proto-Indo-European...
Berlin-New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2005. — xviii + 745 p. — (Mouton Grammar Library 35). — ISBN: 3-11-018484-2. The varieties covered in this volume are those of Tamashek in the narrow sense, excluding Tawellemett of Menaka but including the other Malian varieties (Goundam, Timbuktu, Gao, Ansongo, Kidal, and the Gourma area south of the Niger River including Gosi and the...
Trivandrum, India, Dravidian Languages Association, 1979. — 456 p.
Kuvi is a Dravidian language spoken by the southern branch of the Kondh tribes in the Koraput district of Orissa and adjoining regions of Andhra Pradesh. It is closely related to Kui, spoken by the northern Kondhs. In a more analytical classification of Dravidian, Kuvi is considered member of Gondi-Kui,...
Calcutta, Anthropological Survey of India, Government of India, 1982. — 76 p. Onge (Öñge) is a south-western Andamanese language. In 2002 there were 94 speakers left in Little Andaman. A Handbook of the Onge Language (the cover title contains typos) is the best source for knowing an endangered language such as Onge (see Abbi 2006 at page 74). Topics taken into account are...
Chur: Verlag Lia Rumantscha / Ligia Romontscha, 1982. — xxii + 234 (256) p.
Romansh is a Romance language spoken in the Swiss canton of Grisons (Graubünden in German). It has been the fourth national language of Switzerland since 1938. Speakers aged 15 and above were 36.622 in 2012, i.e. 0.9% of Switzerland’s 7,7 million inhabitants. Romansh is divided in five main dialects....
Bern; München: Francke Verlag, 1959. — 430 (1183) p.
Pokorny's etymological dictionary (IEW) is a landmark in Proto-Indo-European lexicography. After more than half a century it is a very useful tool of reference even though the Hittite and Tocharian citations are scanty and notwithstanding the author's refusal of accepting the laryngeal interpretation of Proto-Indo-European...
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018. — xxiv + 656 p. — ISBN: 9789462982703, E-ISBN: 978-90-4853-274-2. This is the first volume of a series of books (the first two devoted to nouns and noun phrases) which aim to present a synthesis of the currently available syntactic knowledge of the Hungarian language. The structure of the project, that is, the eight areas in which...
Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2016. — xix + 366 p. — ISBN: 9780198744733. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the history and development of the Latin New Testament and a user’s guide to the resources available for research and further study. The first five chapters offer a new historical synthesis, bringing together evidence from Christian authors and...
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018. — viii + 597 p. —‒ ISBN: 9789462982710, E-ISBN: 978-90-4853-275-9. This is the second volume of a series of books (the first two devoted to nouns and noun phrases) which aim to present a synthesis of the currently available syntactic knowledge of the Hungarian language. The structure of the project, that is, the eight areas in which...
Bern; München: Francke Verlag, 1959. — 426 (1183) p.
Pokorny's etymological dictionary (IEW) is a landmark in Proto-Indo-European lexicography. After more than half a century it is a very useful tool of reference even though the Hittite and Tocharian citations are scanty and notwithstanding the author’s refusal of accepting the laryngeal interpretation of Proto-Indo-European...
München: LINCOM, 2009. — 166 p. The Austroasiatic (Austro-Asiatic) phylum (macro-family) spans South and Southeast Asia, with more than 150 languages over a dozen branches. Speaker communities vary from villages of just a few dozens up to national languages such as Cambodian and Vietnamese with millions of speakers. Much of the territory has been divided and overlain by...
Ternopil', Aston, 2011. — 371 p. An Ukrainian-Subkarpathian Rusyn (here called Lemko, Ukrainian lemkivs'kyj) dictionary. It contains 10.760 Ukrainian entries with 26.000 equivalent Rusyn lexical items. There is an historical introduction about the Rusyn population and its diaspora in Europe and beyond. Some pages are devoted to the orthographic rules: in the dictionary every...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014 ‒ xxiv + 349 pp. — (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 8). ‒ ISBN: 978-0-19-870178-1 This volume is devoted to the diachronic study of Italian dialects and dedicated to Mair Parry, Professor Emerita of Bristol University (see the Preface by Anna Laura and Giulio Lepschy). The book consists in two parts: Verbal...
Firenze: LoGisma, 2008. — X + 180 pp. First volume of a large dictionary devoted to the Hurrian language of the ancient Mittani (Mitanni) Kingdom. The first part contains an alphabetical list of Hurrian roots beginning with A. The second part (Lemmata) deals with the same roots, inflected forms, derived words, meanings, Hittite, Sumerian and Accadian correspondences. References...
Hamburg: Buske, 2008. — 379 p. — ISBN: 978-3-87548-518-9. This comparative introduction to the Romance languages was written by the well-known German linguist Georg Bossong (born in 1948). The Romance languages are classified according to 16 criteria, 3 of external nature and 13 internal features. Specific chapters are devoted to 9 Romance languages (or linguistic groups), i.e....
Edizione italiana tradotta e curata da Anna Maria Di Tolla, Napoli: Unior, 2017. — 173 p. — (Studi Africanistici Quaderni di Studi Berberi e Libico-berberi 6) ‒ ISBN: 978–88–6719–148–2. Il tachelhit è una delle varietà linguistiche berbere più importanti del Nord Africa che, parlato da diversi milioni di persone in Marocco, possiede, oggi, un vasto corpus di testi letterari. Il...
Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2012. — xvi + 256 p. — ISBN: 978-1-934078-61-7, e-ISBN: 978-1-934078-63-1. The original edition of this book appeared in German ( Sprachen aus der Welt des Alten Testaments ) in 2009. Scholarship increasingly emphasizes the considerable linguistic and cultural diversity of the environment in which the biblical texts originated over time. Both the...
Heidelberg: Carl Winter - Universitätsverlag, 1967. — 288 S. Das vorliegende Buch bildet die schon lange geplante Fortsetzung meiner 1963 erschienenen „Russischen historischen Grammatik I". Als äußeres Zeichen der Zusammengehörigkeit sind in das Abkürzungsverzeichnis nur solche Werke aufgenommen, die im I. Bande nicht vorkommen. Außerdem wird im Text ausgiebig auf den ersten...
Revised and Expanded Edition. — Toronto-Buffalo-London: University of Toronto Press, 2005. — 597 p. The Carpatho-Rusyns are central European people, numbering approximately 1.2 million, who live within the borders of five states: Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, and Hungary. They have never had a state of their own. Disregarded and suppressed by most governments that ruled...
Columbia, University of South Carolina, 1994. — 232 p.
This Ph.D. dissertation is a decriptive grammar of Shawnee, a Central Algonkian (Algonquian) language. At present Shawnee is spoken by only two hundred old people in Oklahoma, thus it is a seriously endangered language. Formerly, the Shawnee inhabited the Ohio Valley, i.e. Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia,...
Kadmos. — 2002. — Vol. 41. — p. 1-102. — ISSN: 0022-7498. Les explorations de surface et les fouilles fönt constamment apparaître de nouveaux documents paléo-phrygiens et, près de vingt ans après la parution de notre corpus (Brixhe - Lejeune 1984), une mise à jour m’a semblé nécessaire. Dans ce premier Supplément, je présente deux lots d’inscriptions le plus souvent inédites,...
Washington, D.C., Georgetown University, 1976, 152 p. This Ph.D. dissertation deals with the Libyan Arabic, the Arabic variety spoken in Libya, especially the dialect of Tripoli. The author’s approach is according the traditional grammar but it has the advantage of being very clear.
Chapel Hill, N.C.: self-published, 1993 (2001). — vi + 298 p. — (Lexica Anatolica 2). (From the Forword of 1993 and the Notice of 2001 by the author, Harold Craig Melchert:) Like its predecessor, this lexicon has a very modest aim: to furnish a provisional index, as exhaustive as possible, of all attested Cuneiform Luvian lexemes. It is intended to be complete for the CLuvian...
Kadmos. — 2004. — Vol. 43. — p. 1-130. — ISSN: 0022-7498. Après le Supplément I (Brixhe 2002/2), cette seconde livraison rassemble des textes publiés en ordre dispersé depuis le Corpus de 1984 (Brixhe – Lejeune). Seul W-11 est inédit. On verra que l’intérêt de ces documents, à la différence des précédents, ne réside pas essentiellement dans leur apport à l’histoire de...
Piobesi d’Alba (Cuneo): Sorì Edizioni, 2007. — 232 p. As the long title explains this book is devoted to a variety (Italian langarolo ) of the Piedmontese language as spoken in Alta Langa (Upper Langa), a hill country in south-eastern Piedmont, illustrating history, grammar, tales, nursery rhymes, prayers, proverbs, idioms, songs and curiosities. The author, Giacomo Giamello, is...
Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1981. — 155 p. A famous attempt at demonstrating the genealogical relationship between Elamite (spoken during the first millenium BCE in Elam or Susiana, now Khuzestan in Iran) and the Dravidian language family of (southern) India. After three pathbreaking articles (1974, 1975, 1979) McAlpin thought to have reached his goal with...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. — xviii+ 530 p. — ISBN: 978-019-926662-3. The “Pacific” in this volume, not being coterminous with its geographical or oceanographical concept nor with the Ethnologue , encompasses not only Oceania (Island Pacific together with Australia and New Zealand), but also its bordering Pacific Rim areas (of Asia and the Americas) with the (sea)...
Zagreb, Društvo za ukrajinsku kulturu, 2007, 290 p. A short Rusyn (Lemko)-Ukrainian-Croat and Croat-Ukrainian-Rusyn (Lemko) dictionary with data drawn from the Ukrainian dictionary by Andrij Bihunjak and Oleksandr Hojsak and from the materials collected in Ukraina by Stefanija Panćo. Croatian Rusyns are a tiny minority in Lipovljani (Slavonia), 309 speakers in 2001. Text in Croat,...
Avec la collaboration de Mouloud Mammeri. Ouvrage publié avec le concours du Conseil de la Recherche Scientifique en Algérie. Paris: Arts et Mètiers Graphiques, 1967. — 511 p. — (Institut de Sciences Humaines, Travaux du Centre de Recherches Anthropologiques, Préhistoriques et Ethnographiques, Alger). (From the Preface by Gabriel Camps:) Il y a quinze ans, en novembre 1951,...
Göttingen: Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2010. — xiv + 429 p. — ISBN: 978-3-941875-43-2. In diesem Buch wurden deutsche Rechtsstichwörter in persischen (Farsi) Rechtswörtern zum Ausdruck gebracht. Das Ziel der Veröffentlichung dieses Rechtswörterbuches ist eine spezifische Hilfeleistung für iranische Juristen, die in Deutschland leben, in verschiedenen Rechtsfachgebieten...
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1963. — xvi + 240 p. Harari is the language of the Harari people of Ethiopia. It is spoken only in the city of Harar which is situated about 350 miles (560 km) to the east of Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. It is a member of the Semitic language family belonging to the Ethiosemitic group. According to the 2007...