Saci Edizioni, 2006. — 304 p. Una guida che offre un panorama completo sull’epigrafia etrusca utile soprattutto al lettore non specialista, ma anche allo studioso che si avvicina per la prima volta alla materia. Il percorso che il lettore è chiamato a compiere si svolge in senso inverso rispetto ai manuali di impostazione linguistica, mettendo al centro il particolare (le...
Coral Gables: University of Miami Press, 1973. — 581 p. — (Miami linguistics series 12). — ISBN 0-87024-250-4. This work belongs in a bountiful tradition. Less than a decade after Devoto’s Origini indeuropee, Benveniste, leaving aside most apparatus but ever so supremely in control of the data, has produced a classic. We may see it as a collection of monographs or as the...
Thames and Hudson, 2007. — 257 p. A gloriously illustrated and comprehensive survey of the most famous ancient site in the world. The dramatic story of Pompeii's destruction has been handed down to us by Roman writers, its paintings and mosaics have astonished visitors since their discovery in the eighteenth century, and its houses and public buildings to this day present a...
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1969. — 142 p. A brief, structurally oriented reference grammar of Russian for use by advanced students, Slavicists, and linguists, Bidwell's guide can also be used as a text for courses on the linguistic structure and grammar of the Russian language. Bidwell offers an original phonemic analysis and, breaking with traditional grammars, treats the...
Harry N. Abrams, 1972. — 466 p. The miniaturist art of gem engraving is the least familiar of the major arts of ancient Greece, yet we know it to have been practiced by the greatest artists. This book presents a comprehensive account of the art in Greek lands from the early Bronze Age down to the Hellenistic period. The gems are related to history and to the artistic...
Lincom Europa, 2001. — 441 p. — (Languages of the world: Materials 155). An acrolect of the Central Asian Turks from the fifteenth to the late nineteenth century, the Chagatay language was a multilayered literary idiom employed in Transoxiana, Khorasan Fergana and East Turkistan, especially in cultural centers such as Samarkand, Bukhara, Herat, Khiva, Kokand and Kashghar....
Flammarion, 2001. — 273 p. Fiercely competitive, Matisse and Picasso engaged in one of the most formidable artistic dialogues of this century. The intense beginning of the relationship between the two artists - from the time they met in 1906 until 1917, when Matisse left for Nice - has already been amply studied, but their continuous exchange during the second part of their...
4th edition. — Florence, SC, 2021. — 857 p. Revised 2 January 2023. The latest in-depth treatment by Allan R. Bomhard of the Nostratic Hypothesis. All aspects (phonology, morphology, vocabulary, homelands, etc.) of Nostratic are covered. Voluminous references are given to the relevant literature.
Slawistyczny Ośrodek Wydawniczy, 1998. — 377 s. Słownik etymologiczny kaszubszczyzny jest słownikiem dyferencjalnym w stosunku do języka ogólnopolskiego. Zawiera więc przede wszystkim tak zwane kaszubizmy leksykalne, na które składają się liczne archaizmy (niejednokrotnie zresztą znane również staropolszczyźnie), równie liczne twory innowacyjne, a także wybrane zapożyczenia...
Slawistyczny Ośrodek Wydawniczy, 2002. — 389 s. Słownik etymologiczny kaszubszczyzny jest słownikiem dyferencjalnym w stosunku do języka ogólnopolskiego. Zawiera więc przede wszystkim tak zwane kaszubizmy leksykalne, na które składają się liczne archaizmy (niejednokrotnie zresztą znane również staropolszczyźnie), równie liczne twory innowacyjne, a także wybrane zapożyczenia...
Yale University Press, 2014. — 353 p. In this elegant book Richard Bosworth explores Venice—not the glorious Venice of the Venetian Republic, but from the fall of the Republic in 1797 and the Risorgimento up through the present day. Bosworth looks at the glamour and squalor of the belle époque and the dark underbelly of modernization, the two world wars, and the far-reaching...
Peace Corps Morocco, 2011. — 199 p. Even under the best conditions, learning a new language can be challenging. Add to this challenge the rigors of Peace Corps training, and you‘re faced with what will be one of the most demanding—and rewarding—aspects of your Peace Corps experience: learning to communicate to Moroccans in their own language. But it can be done. And rest...
SELAF, 1978. — 555 p. — (Langues et civilisations à tradition orale 29). Le sango, dont il est question dans cet ouvrage essentiellement pratique, est avec le français la langue véhiculaire et nationale de Centrafrique. L'usage en a été répandu au temps de la colonisation française, d'une part par les turugus - soldats africains supplétifs employés par l'armée française - et...
Autrement, 2006. — 99 p. Le récit de l'histoire du territoire, depuis la création de la Francie occidentale au traité de Verdun en 843 jusqu'à l'époque contemporaine où l'Hexagone devient une part de l'Europe du XXIe siècle. Une véritable "géographie rétrospective de la France"! La France moderne - XVIe-xixe siècle. Ce volume de l'Atlas de l'histoire de France consacré à la...
The Teaching Company, 2016. — 278 p. — (The Great Courses). In Decoding the Secrets of Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Professor Brier offers you the key to unlocking the mysteries of this amazing ancient language. Making this seemingly complex code accessible to anyone with a willingness to learn, his 24 lectures cover the basics of reading and writing hieroglyphs, including vocabulary...
Thames & Hudson, 2013. — 264 p. Islamic geometric designs are admired worldwide for their beauty and marvellous intricacy, yet in truth they are seldom understood. Indeed, their complexity and artistry can seem almost beyond the powers of human ingenuity. In this handsomely illustrated volume, artist and teacher Eric Broug analyses and explains these complex designs in their...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2022. — 739 p. — (Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics 12). The volume is aimed at preserving invaluable knowledge about Ainu, a language-isolate previously spoken in Hokkaido, Sakhalin, and Kurils, which is now on the verge of extinction. Ainu was not a written language, but it possesses a huge documented stock of oral literature, yet is...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 1999. — 336 S. Das Osmanische war die offizielle Sprache des Osmanischen Reiches (1299-1918). Seine Basis ist das Anatolisch-Türkische, in das arabische und persische Elemente aufgenommen wurden. Es wird deshalb auch als Mischsprache bezeichnet. Hierbei ist besonders, daß die arabischen und persischen Wörter nicht nur als einzelne Entlehnungen in die...
University of Hawaii Press, 1971. — 743 p. The Cebuano language. The Cebuano language, also called Sugbuhanon, Cinibuhano and Binisaya, belongs to the Malayo-Polynesian (Austronesian) language family. It is spoken by some seven million native speakers, which is approximately twentyfour per cent of the total Philippine population estimated at thirty-two million. It is spoken in...
Studio Publications/Thomas Y. Crowell, 1953. — 392 p. There has been a great need for a wellillustrated and comprehensive text on every phase of Chinese art with complete and up-to-the minute factual knowledge. This is such a book, and it is written by two famous authorities with sympathy, insight, humor, and deep understanding. This partial list of subjects covered will give...
CNRS Editions, 2016. — 329 p. Phénicien, araméen, hébreu, grec, latin, étrusque, berbère, arabe, turc, espagnol, italien, français : ces langues du pourtour méditerranéen nous parlent de l'histoire de ce continent liquide. Elles sont d'abord la trace des empires et puissances qui se sont succédé en Méditerranée, mais aussi celle du commerce des hommes, des idées et des denrées,...
Hippocrene Books, 2001. — 484 p. — (Hippocrene Beginner's Series). This introduction to French teaches the basic structures of the language, presenting grammar, vocabulary, vocabulary, and review exercises in twenty lessons. Each lesson includes a lively dialogue that focuses on a situation of interest to the visitor, such as dining in a restaurant or sight-seeing. Historical...
Oxford University Press, 1957. — 198 p. This edition presents the original texts and hieroglyphic transliteration of the ostraca written in hieratic and placed in the Oxford Museum. This work is connected with the names of great egyptologists Jaroslav Černý and Alan Gardiner.
Fifth Edition. — John Wiley & Sons, 2023. — 499 p. ARCHITECTURE THE GOLD STANDARD IN INTRODUCTORY ARCHITECTURE TEXTS, FULLY UPDATED TO REFLECT THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN THE FIELD For more than forty years, the beautifully illustrated Architecture: Form, Space, and Order has served as the classic introduction to the basic vocabulary of architectural design. In this fifth...
Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona, 2020. — 180 p. — (Barcino Monographica Orientalia 14). Miquel Civil (Sabadell, 1926 - Chicago, 2019) va escriure aquest Esbós de gramàtica sumèria en una estada a Barcelona i el va utilitzar a les classes de llengua sumèria que va impartir a l’Institut del Pròxim Orient Antic de la Universitat de Barcelona durant el curs 2002-2003....
University of California Press, 1965. — 181 p. Explanation of The Transcription Introduction The Structure of The Uralic Languages Etymological Phonology Etymological Morphology Etymologies
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 232 p. The awe-inspiring mosaics covering the walls, vaults, and domes of Byzantine churches of the medieval period still remain a mystery to modern viewers. Saints and Spectacle ventures into the world of ninth- and tenth-century Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, to recapture the spirit of Byzantine thought and expression...
Thames & Hudson, 2020. — 264 p. — (World of Art). In the 21st century photography has come of age as a contemporary art form. Almost two centuries after photographic technology was first invented, the art world has fully embraced it as a legitimate medium, equal in status to painting and sculpture. This book provides an introduction to the extraordinary range of contemporary...
Cambridge University Press, 1975. — 444 p. The first comprehensive study in over 100 years, cataloging the issues of each coiner in the period 280-31 B. C. and describing and dating them as accurately as the evidence permits.
Rüdiger Köppe, 1998. — 84 p. — (Grammatische Analysen afrikanischer Sprachen 9). Kanuri belongs to the Saharan language family and is spoken by more than 5.5 million people as a mother tongue in the area surrounding Lake Chad in Nigeria, Niger and Chad, partly in the Fezzan region of Libya. In 1854, Sigismund Wilhelm Koelle wrote the first full grammar of Kanuri and published a...
Dietrich Reimer, 1995. — 1672 p. — (Sprache und Oralität in Afrika 16). This multidialectal English-Fulani dictionary has a double function. First of all,it wants to meet the needs of Fulani speakers trying to understand and to interpreted English texts better. This understandig function includes reading comprehension in English and therefore we want to provide an English...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 1989. — 216 S. From the linguistic point of view the Yemen is one of the least documented areas of the Arab world. This is especially true in the field of lexicography. The present work should be understood as the first step toward a lexicon of the Yemeni dialects. By and large it treats only the dialects of North Yemen, although a few South Yemeni...
Stanford University Press, 1990. — 764 p. This is a collection of 37 of the most important, enduring, and influential essays by one of the great linguists of this century, gathered from a wide range of journals and books spanning four decades. Typology and Language Universals A Quantitative Approach to the Morphological Typology of Language (1954) The Nature and Uses of...
Philipp von Zabern, 1998. - 129 S. — (Archäologische Veröffentlichungen 86). Im Jahr 1988 entdeckten die Archäologen Werner Kaiser und Günter Dreyer vom DAI Abteilung Kairo auf dem Teil der Grabungsstätte von Abydos (Umm el-Qaab), der die Bezeichnung Friedhof U trägt, das Grab des Königs (U-j), das in die Naqada-Kultur IIIa2 datiert wurde. Das Grab umfasst zwölf Kammern, es...
Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, 1955-1964. — 723 S. — (Analecta Orientalia 34/39). Ausführliche Grammatik der altägyptischen Sprache des deutschen Ägyptologen Elmar Edel (1914-1997).
Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1982. — 135 p. — (Veröffentlichungen, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften Iranische Kommission 12). The purpose and general format of Studies in the Vocabulary of Khotanese are already familiar from the first volume published in 1982. In his introduction to Studies I Emmerick describes the series as "a kind of...
Ejnar Muksgaard, 1954. — 715 S. Das Wörterbuch des demotischen Altägyptischen (Spätägyptisch) des dänischen Linguisten Wolja Erichsen (1890-1966) ist eines der besten Lehrbücher seines Fachs und derzeit eine bibliografische Rarität.
Akademie-Verlag, 1971. — 604 S. Das größte und am häufigsten zitierte Projekt zur Erstellung eines vollständigen Wörterbuchs der altägyptischen Sprache. Die Autoren sind die deutschen Ägyptologen Adolf Erman (1854-1937) und Hermann Grapow (1885-1967).
Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 2021. — 570 p. En esta obra colectiva encontramos una completa descripción gramatical de la lengua aragonesa, como sistema lingüístico autónomo del que forman parte las variedades dialectales que hoy sobreviven en el Alto Aragón. Los hablantes de aragonés encontrarán en ella una herramienta que permita identificar y ubicar su habla como...
E.J. Brill, 1995. — 690 S. — (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1. The Near and Middle East 24). Das Wörterbuch bietet eine vollständige Zusammenstellung und historisch-vergleichende Reflexion der erblichen Lexik der kartwelischen (südkaukasischen) Sprachfamilie. Es stellt den neuesten Stand der etymologischen Forschung dar, enthält eine Fülle lexikalischer Neueinträge,...
Hippocrene Books, 2003. — 684 p. This unique bilingual dictionary gives English speakers and other non-Yoruba a tool with which to learn one of the national languages of Nigeria, while simultaneously giving Yoruba scholars, students, and educators a voice to reach each other and the rest of the world in their native language. Includes: a comprehensive review of the Yoruba...
Folkuniversitetets förlag, 2016. — 122 s. Goda grunder – vardagssvenska för nyanlända är ett uppdaterat urval ur det klassiska läromedlet Goda grunder. Läromedlet är utvecklat för de kurser i svenska för nyanlända som bland annat anordnas av studieförbund och folkhögskolor under asyltiden. Goda grunder – vardagssvenska för nyanlända är en kombinerad läro- och övningsbok....
Thames & Hudson, 1997. — 228 p. Tibet has produced some of the most distinctive and creative art in the world. From a bleak and often inaccessible landscape arose an artistic tradition so vibrant and sophisticated that even China's emperors commissioned works. With the spread of Buddhism in the West, inspired by the leadership of the exiled Dalai Lama, and the controversy over...
Publishing House of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1981. — 427 p. This book is an expanded version of the lectures I delivered during the autumn of 1956 at the Philological Faculty of Moscow University. The separate chapters are linked to each other by an intrinsic interrelation. My aim is to present the most recent achievements and the major problems in...
Pennsylvania State University Press, 2017. — 273 p. The cross-cultural exchange of ideas that flourished in the Mediterranean during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries profoundly affected European and Islamic society.Gardens of Renaissance Europe and the Islamic Empiresconsiders the role and place of gardens and landscapes in the broader context of the information sharing...
Otto Harrassowitz, 2002. — 225 S. The book's central proposition is that the prominent feature of the hiero-glyphic script which Egyptologists call "determinatives" makes up an elabo-rate system of classifiers. All items of the lexicon take motivated pictorial classifiers. By this device, the script reflects the map of knowledgeorganization of ancient Egyptian culture. The book...
Shangri-La Publications, 1999. — 240 p. This work provides an easy-to-follow reference for studying Egyptian scribal styles. While we have no clear evidence that ancient Egyptians themselves organized or taught writing in this way, this fresh new system assists modern scholars and is rooted in a more organic approach to the rules of calligraphy than existing methods. It allows...
Editions d'Art Albert Skira, 1953. - 210 p. — (Great centuries of painting). In this volume the reader will find the treasure trove of prolonged travels in Turkey, Greece, Italy and Jugoslavia as well as visits to the great European museums and libraries. In the course of these expeditions which often took them to faraway, all but inaccessible villages and monasteries, our...
Stanford University Press, 2000. — 346 p. The basic thesis of this book is that the well known and extensively studied Indo-European family of languages is but a branch of a much larger Eurasiatic family that extends from northern Asia to North America. Eurasiatic is seen to consist of Indo-European, Uralic-Yukaghir, Altaic (Turkic, Mongolian, and Tungus-Manchu),...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 1976. — 118 p. The present work proposes to afford a brief and practical introduction to classical and literary Mongolian, paying special heed to the requirements of those who may pursue their study otherwise unaided. For the student of contemporary Mongolia, there is a special section on the important Khalkha dialect, outlining the transition to the...