Author: Andrew Dalby
Publisher: Columbia University Pre
Keywords: languages, reference, definitive, dictionary
Number of Pages: 800
Published: 2004-03-01
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0231115695
ISBN-13: 9780231115698
This new tome of tongues is one of the most remarkable general reference works of the century. From Abkhaz and Abaza (300,000 speakers in Georgia, Turkey, and Russia) to Zulu (8,800,000 speakers in South Africa and Lesotho), Dalby comprehensively details more than 400 languages (living and dead), arranged A-to-Z for easy access, and delving into the political, social, and historical background of each. In addition, more than 200 maps indicate where the languages are spoken today, while sidebars show alphabets, numerals, and anecdotes. If you’ve got even a passing interest in linguistics,
Author: Andrew Dalby
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: languages, reference, definitive, dictionary
Number of Pages: 800
Published: 1999-02-15
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0231115687
ISBN-13: 9780231115681
Approximately how many languages compose the Bantu language group of central and southern Africa? What is the name of the language spoken in Hawaii by an estimated two thousand people? What Western European language is not known to be related to any other language family in the world -and is considered by linguists to be one of the most difficult to learn? These are only a few of the questions language lovers, linguists, and lay readers will be able to answer with the -an easy-to-navigate, authoritative guide to the worlds languages and language groups at the end of the twentieth century. A
Author: K David Harriso
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: languages, knowledge, human, world, extinction, erosion
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2008-07-21
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0195372069
ISBN-13: 9780195372069
It is commonly agreed by linguists and anthropologists that the majority of languages spoken now around the globe will likely disappear within our lifetime. The phenomenon known as language death has started to accelerate as the world has grown smaller. This extinction of languages, and the knowledge therein, has no parallel in human history. K. David Harrison’s book is the first to focus on the essential question, what is lost when a language dies? What forms of knowledge are embedded in a language’s structure and vocabulary? And how harmful is it to humanity that such knowledge i
Languages and Children: Making the Match, New Languages for Young Learners, Grades K-8 (4th Edition)
Authors:Helena Curtain, Carol Ann Dahlberg,
Publisher: Allyn & Baco
Keywords: languages, learners, grades, new, match, children, making
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 2008-03-01
List price: $81.80
ISBN-10: 0205535488
ISBN-13: 9780205535484
the fourth edition of this classic resource has significant new coverage of assessment. Advocating for early language literacy, Curtain and Dahlberg provide the rationale, strategies and activities for developing early language literacy, helping teachers make the connection between first and second language literacy and encouraging them to integrate the written word even at early points in language development. In addition, readers will discover strategies for interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational modes of communication as well as helpful ideas about classroom activities, assessment
Languages and Children--Making the Match: New Languages for Young Learners, Grades K-8 (3rd Edition)
Authors:Helena Curtain, Carol Ann Dahlberg,
Publisher: Allyn & Baco
Keywords: languages, learners, grades, new, match, children, making
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 2003-09-18
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0205366759
ISBN-13: 9780205366750
With a focus on communicative language teaching as it reflects cognitive and second language acquisition theory, this classic in the field provides a wealth of strategies and activities ready to use in the K-8 classroom. Languages and Children: Making the Match, Third Edition, has been thoroughly revised and updated. Standards-based planning and instruction are the guiding principles throughout the book. This long-awaited third edition provides extensive new information that is not easily accessible to the field. Publishing this information in one source is a tremendous service to methods inst
Authors:Heinz Kloss, Grant D. McConnell,
Publisher: Pr De L’universite Laval
Keywords: languages, india, book, constitutional, modes, degree, world, survey, written
Published: 1989-12-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 2763771866
ISBN-13: 9782763771861
Authors:Bernard Comrie, Stephen Matthews, Maria Polinsky,
Publisher: Facts on File
Keywords: languages, library, language, series, file, literature, world, origin, development, throughout, atlas, facts
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-04-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0816051232
ISBN-13: 9780816051236
The origins of language have long been the subject of myth and conjecture. Today, scientists and scholars are rendering these origins less obscure with clues from linguistic and archaeological evidence. Written by a panel of eminent linguists, this book guides the general reader through the mysterious and exciting world of languages and linguistics. In a detailed account of the language families of each region of the world, this comprehensive work identifies and explains interesting and sometimes unique features of vocabulary and grammar. The evolution of more than 200 languages and their deep
