The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures

The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures
Author: Susanne Maria Michaelis
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 572
Release: 2013-09-05
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0199691398

The Atlas presents commentaries and colour maps showing how 130 linguistic features - phonological, syntactic, morphological, and lexical - are distributed among the world's pidgins and creoles. Designed and written by the world's leading experts, it is a unique resource of outstanding value for linguists of all persuasions throughout the world.

Historical and Critical Dictionary

Historical and Critical Dictionary
Author: Pierre Bayle
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Total Pages: 496
Release: 1991-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780872201033

Richard Popkin's meticulous translation--the most complete since the eighteenth century--contains selections from thirty-nine articles, as well as from Bayle's four Clarifications. The bulk of the major articles of philosophical and theological interest--those that influenced Leibniz, Berkeley, Hume, and Voltaire and formed the basis for so many eighteenth-century discussions--are present, including David, Manicheans, Paulicians, Pyrrho, Rorarius, Simonides, Spinoza, and Zeno of Elea.

Atlas of the world's languages in danger of disappearing

Atlas of the world's languages in danger of disappearing
Author: Wurm, Stephen A.
Publisher: UNESCO
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2001-07-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9231037986

Close to half of the 6,000 languges spoken in the world are doomed or likely to disappear in the foreseeable future. The disappearance of any language is an irreparable loss for the heritage of all humankind. This new edition of the Atlas, first published in 1996, is intended to give a graphic picture of the magnitude of the problem and a comprehensive list of languages in danger.

Geometry

Geometry
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 993
Release: 2011
Genre: Geometry
ISBN: 9780133688986