New Distributed Titles Fall 2009 - Oxbow Books

language � linguistics
The Russian Loanwords in Literary Estonian
by Rogier Blokland
This volume contains a brief history of Estonian-Russian historical and linguistic
contact, an overview of previous studies on the subject, a detailed
etymological treatment of some 1000 Russian loanwords excerpted from
all existing lexicographic sources of Estonian, and a phonological, morphological,
semantic and statistic loanword analysis.
496p, paperback, 9783447057394, $147.00(s), Harrassowitz Verlag,
December 2008, Veröffentlichungen der Societas Uralo-Altaica 78.
Sonority, Optimality, and the Hebrew P “Chet Verbs”
by Silhe Alvestad and Lutz Edzard
This is a detailed study on the insertion of epenthetic vowels in verbal and
nominal forms primae and mediae gutturalis in Biblical Hebrew, as well
as in normative and spoken Modern Hebrew. It aims to demonstrate how
Optimality Theory offers a theoretical framework for arranging an array of
relevant constraints.
120p, paperback, 9783447059107, $54.00(s), Harrassowitz Verlag, October 2009,
Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 66.
Sprachkunst XXXIX / 2008 / 1. Halbband
Beiträge zur Literaturwissenschaft
edited by Herbert Foltinek and Hans Höller
German text, one contribution in English. Contents include:
Entwicklungspsychologie und Elektrizität in Stifters ‘Abdias’, mit Blick auf
das autobiographische Fragment ‘Mein Leben’; Heine and the Realists,
Theodor Fontane and William Dean Howells; Zu Arno Holz’ und Johannes
Schlafs ‘Neue Gleise’ (1892); Meinolf Schumacher, “Da bin ich und das
wars;” Robert Schindels Gedicht ‘Amfortas’; Ian McEwans ‘Saturday’ (2005)
und die Poetik des Traumspiels; León Villanúas ‘La Rusia inquietante’.
138p, paperback, 9783700165675, $35.00(s), Austrian Academy of Sciences,
October 2009.
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Verbal Morphology and the Historical
Comparison of the Transeurasian Languages
edited by Lars Johanson and Martine Robbeets
The term 'Transeurasian' refers to a large group of geographically
adjacent languages stretching from the Pacific in the East to the
Mediterranean in the West. They share a significant amount of
linguistic properties and include five linguistic families: Japanese,
Korean, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic. This volume explores potentially
shared features of verbal morphology among these languages
and search for the best way to explain them.
300p, paperback, 9783447059145, $72.00(s), Harrassowitz Verlag,
December 2009, Turcologica 78.
Das Handbuch der Eurolinguistik
by Uwe Hinrichs
The Handbook of Eurolinguistics introduces this new
discipline in all its variety in 45 essays. Thematic
sections deal with European languages, Europe as
a linguistic area, linguistic levels, language policy
and multilingualism, and the roots of Eurolinguistics.
German text.
852p, hardback, 9783447059282, $147.00(s),
Harrassowitz Verlag, December 2009,
Slavistische Studienbücher 20.
The Neo-Mandaic Dialect of Khorramshahr
by Charles G Häberl
Neo-Mandaic is the only surviving dialect of Aramaic to be recognized
as a direct descendant of any of the classical dialects
of Late Antiquity. This grammar is the first account of a previously
undocumented dialect of Neo-Mandaic, and the most
thorough description of any Neo-Mandaic dialect. In addition
to a description of its phonology, inflectional paradigms, and
morphosyntax, it includes a collection of ten texts, transcribed
and translated, and a concise lexicon of their vocabulary.
409p, hardback, 9783447058742, $117.00(s),
Harrassowitz Verlag, July 2009, Semitica Viva 45.
Wörterbuch zur Sprache und Kultur
der Twareg
by Hans Ritter
This set of volumes containing a simplified trilingual and
an extended bilingual dictionary was developed through
the special synthesis of linguistics, ethnography and
relevant source literature. Topics explored include botanical
and zoological nomenclature, terms of regional
medicine, medicinal plants and agricultural crops, craft
objects and materials, salt trade and caravan economics.
German text.
Band 1: Twareg – Französisch – Deutsch. Elementarwörterbuch mit
einer Einführung in Kultur, Sprache, Schrift und Dialektverteilung
1130p, 419 illus, hardback, 9783447058865, $147.00(s), Harrassowitz Verlag, July 2009.
Band 2: Deutsch – Twareg. Erweitertes Wörterbuch der Twareg-
Hauptdialekte mit einer Darstellung von Phonologie, Grammatik
und Verbalsystem sowie kommentierter Bibliographie
1165p, hardback, 9783447058872, $222.00(s), Harrassowitz Verlag, July 2009.
The David Brown Book Company – Fall 2009