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Author | : William Marshall (Nonconformist ) |
Publisher | : Wentworth Press |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 2019-03-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781010627340 |
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Author | : George Griffith (of Kidderminster.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1864 |
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Author | : Albert J. Schütz |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2020-05-31 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 0824869826 |
With color and black-and-white illustrations throughout, Hawaiian Language: Past, Present, Future presents aspects of Hawaiian and its history that are rarely treated in language classes. The major characters in this book make up a diverse cast: Dutch merchants, Captain Cook’s naturalist and philologist William Anderson, ‘Ōpūkaha‘ia (the inspiration for the Hawaiian Mission), the American lexicographer Noah Webster, philologists in New England, missionary-linguists and their Hawaiian consultants, and many minor players. The account begins in prehistory, placing the probable origins of the ancestor of Polynesian languages in mainland Asia. An evolving family tree reflects the linguistic changes that took place as these people moved east. The current versions are examined from a Hawaiian-centered point of view, comparing the sound system of the language with those of its major relatives in the Polynesian triangle. More recent historical topics begin with the first written samples of a Polynesian language in 1616, which led to the birth of the idea of a widespread language family. The next topic is how the Hawaiian alphabet was developed. The first efforts suffered from having too many letters, a problem that was solved in 1826 through brilliant reasoning by its framers and their Hawaiian consultants. The opposite problem was that the alphabet didn’t have enough letters: analysts either couldn’t hear or misinterpreted the glottal stop and long vowels. The end product of the development of the alphabet—literacy—is more complicated than some statistics would have us believe. As for its success or failure, both points of view, from contemporary observers, are presented. Still, it cannot be denied that literacy had a tremendous and lasting effect on Hawaiian culture. The last part of the book concentrates on the most-used Hawaiian reference works—dictionaries. It describes current projects that combine print and manuscript collections on a searchable website. These projects can include the growing body of manuscript and print material that is being made available through recent and ongoing research. As for the future, a proposed monolingual dictionary would allow users to avoid an English bridge to understanding, and move directly to a definition that includes Hawaiian cultural features and a Hawaiian worldview.
Author | : Catharina Peersman |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2015-07-24 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1501501062 |
This volume revisits the issue of language contact and conflict in the Low Countries across space and time. The contributions deal with important sites of Germanic-Romance contact along the different language borders, covering languages such as French, Dutch, German, and Luxembourgish. This first monograph in English on the topic broadens our understanding of current-day issues by integrating a historical perspective, showing how language contact and conflict operated from the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period, the 18th and 19th centuries, and into the 20th and 21st centuries.
Author | : Kaifan Yang |
Publisher | : utzverlag GmbH |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2020-04-02 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3831646856 |
The book examines the diachronic change of time perception throughout Anglo-Saxon England, with the conversion as a turning point. It draws evidence from a variety of sources, in particular from a close reading of Bede’s historical writings and his treatises on time, from Old English poetry, especially The Dream of the Rood, The Phoenix, The Wanderer, Beowulf, The Ruin, Deor, from the literature of the Alfredian period, and from the lexical and statistical analysis of Old English time words. It offers insights into the complexity of time in the Anglo-Saxon context, and shows how the change of time can help to understand the conceptual system of the Anglo-Saxons.
Author | : John Cunningham Wood |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780415087346 |
Author | : R. H. Coase |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2012-11-16 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 022605134X |
Reflections on two centuries of economic history from a Nobel Prize winner in the field: “An accessible collection by a renowned economist.”—Library Journal How do economists decide what questions to address and how to choose their theories? How do they tackle the problems of the economic system and give advice on public policy? With these broad questions, Nobel laureate R. H. Coase, widely recognized for his seminal work on transaction costs, reflects on some of the most fundamental concerns of economists over the past two centuries. In fifteen essays, Coase evaluates the contributions of a number of outstanding figures, including Adam Smith, Alfred Marshall, Arnold Plant, Duncan Black, and George Stigler, as well as economists at the London School of Economics in the 1930s. “Are you looking for a book by an economist who can really write and has insight after insight on free markets vs. government regulation? Would you like it even better if you could get some good laughs from his clever way of putting things? Then Ronald H. Coase’s Essays on Economics and Economists is the book for you.”—Reason
Author | : Terttu Nevalainen |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 983 |
Release | : 2012-10-10 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0199996385 |
The availability of large electronic corpora has caused major shifts in linguistic research, including the ability to analyze much more data than ever before, and to perform micro-analyses of linguistic structures across languages. This has historical linguists to rethink many standard assumptions about language history, and methods and approaches that are relevant to the study of it. The field is now interested in, and attracts, specialists whose fields range from statistical modeling to acoustic phonetics. These changes have even transformed linguists' perceptions of the very processes of language change, particularly in English, the most studied language in historical linguistics due to the size of available data and its status as a global language. The Oxford Handbook of the History of English takes stock of recent advances in the study of the history of English, broadening and deepening the understanding of the field. It seeks to suggest ways to rethink the relationship of English's past with its present, and make transparent the variety of conditions and processes that have been instrumental in shaping that history. Setting a new standard of cross-theoretical collaboration, it covers the field in an innovative way, providing diachronic accounts of major influences such as language contact, and typological processes that have shaped English and its varieties, as well as highlighting recent and ongoing developments of Englishes--celebrating the vitality of language change over the centuries and the many contexts and processes through which language change occurs.
Author | : Terttu Nevalainen (linguiste) |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 983 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190627883 |
This ambitious handbook takes advantage of recent advances in the study of the history of English to rethink the understanding of the field.
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Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1879 |
Genre | : Literature |
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