Bøger af James A. Matisoff
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- Psycho-Ostensive Expressions in Yiddish
233,95 - 1.061,95 kr. In this delightful book, the author enumerates and classifies the formulas Yiddish speakers use to express their emotions-from blessings and thanks to lamentations and curses. A rarity among scholarly books, it brings joy while it teaches; it makes us smile, sometimes roar with laughter, while it develops the most rigorous linguistic argumentation.
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- 233,95 kr.
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- Toward an Etymological Thesaurus
378,95 kr. Presents the prototype of the etymological thesaurus that has been the goal of the Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus project (STEDT) since 1987. This book provides nearly 170 Proto-Tibeto-Burman etymologies in the semantic area of the reproductive system, along with discussions of possible Chinese cognates.
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- 378,95 kr.
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- System and Philosophy of Sino-Tibetan Reconstruction
943,95 kr. Presents research on the history of the Tibeto-Burman (TB) language family, a typologically diverse group of over 250 languages spoken in Southern China, the Himalayas, NE India, and peninsular Southeast Asia.
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- 943,95 kr.