This book offers an in-depth exploration of linguistic features, highlighting the variations across different languages and their functional mechanisms. It delves into the intricacies of language structure, providing insights into how diverse linguistic elements operate and interact, making it a valuable resource for linguists and language enthusiasts alike.
Exploring the complexities of grammatical gender, this comprehensive study examines over 200 languages, revealing both their diversity and common patterns. Greville Corbett delves into various gender systems, including noun class systems, and offers detailed analyses of specific languages such as English, Russian, Archi, and Chichewa. Through these discussions, the book provides clear illustrations that enhance understanding of the unique aspects of gender in language.
In this scholarly volume, each of the living Slavonic languages are analysed and described in depth, together with the two extinct languages - Old Church Slavonic and Polabian. In addition, the various alphabets of the Slavonic languages - particularly Roman, Cyrillic and Glagolitic - are discussed, and the relationships of the Slavonic languages to other Indo-European languages and to one another, are explored. The last chapter provides an account of those Slavonic languages in exile , for example, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Czech and Slovak in the USA.Each language-chapter is written by an expert in the field, in a format designed for comparative study. Information on each language an introductory description of social context and development (where appropriate); a discussion of phonology; a detailed presentation of synchronic morphology, noting major historical developments; comprehensive treatment of syntactic properties; a discussion of vocabulary; an outline of main dialects; and an extensive bibliography, listing English and other sources.