BIBLIO is the largest independent book marketplace in the world, with over 100 million books.

Skip to content

Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance Problems in Comparative Linguistics (Explorations in Linguistic Typology)

Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance Problems in Comparative Linguistics (Explorations in Linguistic Typology)

Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance Problems in Comparative Linguistics
Stock photo: cover may vary

Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance Problems in Comparative Linguistics (Explorations in Linguistic Typology) Paperback - 2006

by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (Editor); R. M. Dixon (Editor)

Add to wish list
  • Used
New

Description

like new.
Ask the seller a question Add to wish list
A$205.62
A$5.78 Delivery within USA
Standard delivery: 2 to 14 days
More delivery options
Ships from GreatBookPrices (Maryland, United States)
The BIBLIO Guarantee

Details

  • Title Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance Problems in Comparative Linguistics (Explorations in Linguistic Typology)
  • Author Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (Editor); R. M. Dixon (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 470
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, Oxford
  • Publication date 2006-04-27
  • Features Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 4236230
  • ISBN 9780199283088 / 0199283087
  • Weight 1.44 lbs (0.65 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.95 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 2.41 cm)
  • Category Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy
  • Dewey Decimal Code 410
  • Quantity available 5

About GreatBookPrices Maryland, United States

Biblio member since 2024

Since 1991, we have worked every day to serve our customers with state-of-the-art technology and world class service. We are dedicated to providing customers around the world with the widest selection of books, DVDs, and CDs at the absolute lowest price.

Terms of Sale: 30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.

Browse books from GreatBookPrices

Reader reviews for Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance Problems in Comparative Linguistics (Explorations in Linguistic Typology)

Write a review for this book

There are no reviews for this book yet. Be the first to write a review!

Your review will be anonymous unless you login or create an account first.

Overall rating
Remember: You’re rating the book as a work, not the seller or the condition of the specific copy you purchased!

Important Terms and Guidelines

  • Please focus on the book’s content and context. Also, add any personal comments as to how you enjoyed the book. Substantiate your likes and dislikes. You may make comparisons to other books.
  • Reviews must be at least 140 characters in length.
  • Please do not reveal critical plot elements.
  • This is not a help line. Contact customer support if you need help.
Your review must not include:
  • Obscenities, discriminatory language, or other insulting language not suitable for public domain
  • Advertisements, “spam” content, or references to other products, offers or websites.
  • Email addresses, URLs, phone numbers, physical addresses or other contact information.
  • Overly critical comments about other reviews or reviewers
  • Time-sensitive material (i.e. promotional tours, seminars, lectures, etc.)
  • Availability, price, or alternative ordering/shipping information

From the publisher

This book considers how and why forms and meanings of different languages at different times may resemble one another. Its editors and authors aim to explain and identify the relationship between areal diffusion and the genetic development of languages, and to discover the means of distinguishing what may cause one language to share the characteristics of another.

First line

This volume consists of studies of the relationship between areal diffusion and the genetic development of languages from a number of critical parts of the world. In

About the author

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald is Professor of Lingusitics, The Cairns Institute, James Cook University. She worked in the North Africa and Middle East section of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, and was then Professor of Linguistics at the Universidade Federal de Santa Caterina in Brazil before coming to Australia in 1994. She has worked on descriptive and historical aspects of Berber languages and has published, in Russian, grammars of Modern and Biblical Hebrew. She is a major authority on languages of the Arawak family from northern Amazonia, and has written grammars of Bare, Warekena, and Tariana, in addition to essays on various typological and areal features of South American languages. Professor R. M. W. Dixon is Director of the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, La Trobe University. He has written grammars of a number of Australian languages (including Dyirbal and Yidiny), published one survey volume ('The Languages of Australia', 1980), and is currently working on a comprehensive areal study of all 247 languages of the continent. For the past nine years he has been working in the southern Amazonian jungle of Brazil, writing a grammar of Jarawara, and pursuing a comparative study of the Arawa language family.

Please wait a moment while we load the requested page.

tracking-