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Bernard Comrie

Klappentext

Based on Comrie's much-praised The World's Major Languages , this is the first comprehensive guide in paperback to descibe in detail the language families of Eastern Europe, and includes an introduction which surveys the field.

Zusammenfassung
Part of a linguistic series covering all major world languages, this volume contains essays that describe the languages of Eastern Europe, including Russian, Greek, Serbo-Croat, Czech and Slovak, Hungarian, Finnish, Turkish, and other Indo-European, Uralic and Slavonic tongues.

Inhalt

Introduction Bernard Comrie 1. Indo-European Languages Philip Baldi, Pennsylvania State University 2. Slavonic Languages Bernard Comrie 3. Russian Bernard Comrie 4. Polish Gerald Stone, University of Oxford 5. Czech and Slovak David Short, University of London 6. Serbo-Croat Greville Corbett, University of Surrey 7. Greek Brian D. Joseph, Ohio State University 8. Uralic Languages Robert Austerlitz, Columbia University 9. Hungarian Daniel Abondolo, University of London 10. Finnish Michael Branch, University of London 11. Turkish and the Turkic Languages Jaklin Kornfilt, Syracuse University Language Index