LINGUIST List 14.471

Mon Feb 17 2003

Books: Lang Desc, Slavonic: Comrie, Corbett (eds)

Editor for this issue: Marisa Ferrara <marisalinguistlist.org>

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1. jleppig, The Slavonic Languages: Comrie, Corbett (eds.)

			
Title: The Slavonic Languages
Series Title: Routledge Languge Family Descriptions
			
Publication Year: 2003
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis) 
 http://www.routledge.com/		 
			
Editor: Bernard Comrie
Editor: Greville G. Corbett				

Paperback: ISBN: 0415280788, Pages: 1072, Price: 39.95
			
Abstract:

New in paperback, The Slavonic Languages provides chapter-length
descriptions of each of the modern Slavonic languages and the attested
extinct Slavonic languages. Individual chapters discuss the various
alphabets that have been used to write Slavonic languages, in
particular, Roman, Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabets, the relationship
to one another through their common ancestor, Proto Slavonic, and the
extent to which various Slavonic languages have survived in
emigration.

Contributors include P. Cubberley, University of
Melbourne,A. Schenker, Yale University, D. Short, University of
London, G. Stone, University of Oxford, and A. Rothstein, University
of Massachusetts.

Lingfield(s): Language Description
			 
Language Family(ies): Slavic Subgroup 

Areal Regions:
Balkans
Western Europe

Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)