Walter de Gruyter, 2015. — 824 p. — (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft 40.1). This handbook comprises an in-depth presentation of the state of the art in word-formation. The five volumes contain 207 articles written by leading international scholars. The XVI chapters of the handbook provide the reader, in both general articles and individual studies, with a...
Tuttle Publishing, 2012. — 332 p. This art history text examines the various influences that have shaped the course of Japanese art history in the fields of painting, sculpture, architecture, and handicrafts. Discussed with challenging insight are the impact of the various Indian and Chinese schools, the pervasive influence of Zen philosophy, and the many other artistic...
Brown University Press/Lund Humphries, 1969. — 283 p. In this magnificent series of three volumes the authors published with the objective of bringing out a critical and definitive publication of the Egyptian astronomical texts.
Routledge, 2016. — 316 p. The touchstones of Gothic monumental art in France - the abbey church of Saint-Denis and the cathedrals of Chartres, Reims, and Bourges - form the core of this collection dedicated to the memory of Anne Prache. The essays reflect the impact of Prache’s career, both as a scholar of wide-ranging interests and as a builder of bridges between the French...
Hippocrene Books, 2016. — 241 p. Kinyarwanda, also known as Rwandan, is a national language of Rwanda (along with French and English) and spoken by almost all of the 11 million inhabitants of the country. Kinyarwanda is the second most widely spoken Bantu language after Kiswahili. It is a sister dialect of Kirundi, the national language of Burundi, so Burundians can understand...
Faber & Faber, 1988. — 382 p. — (The Great Languages). In this book, one of a series not primarily addressed to specialists, I have tried to summarize for classical students, for fellow scholars working in other fields, and for the interested laity the results reached by research into the history of Latin from the Bronze Age down to the break-up of the Roman Empire. No previous...
Ministerio de Educación de Chile, 2019. — 177 p. El producto que presentamos es un diccionario quechua – español, de la variante Cusco Collao con un grafemario y fonemario que consta de veinticinco consonantes y tres vocales. De las veinticinco consonantes, sólo quince son compatibles con el alfabeto castellano, las diez restantes son particulares del idioma quechua. Asimismo,...
Ta-Ha Publishers, 1998. — 131 p. Basic Quranic Arabic Grammar Dr. Jamal-un-Nisa bint Rafai This well researched, scholarly yet easy-to-read text provides a helpful step-by-step approach towards acquiring the basic Arabic grammar skills which will prove invaluable in learning to understand the Qurʼan.
Frederick A. Praeger, 1965. — 292 p. Nomadic, virtually forgotten tribes once flourished in the vast Central Asian plains stretching from the Black Sea to the Himalayas. Here, surrounded by three imposing civilizations of antiquity—the Mediterranean world, India, and the Far East— they created a distinctive art that is often the only remaining evidence o f their existence....
Hippocrene Books, 2008. — 322 p. — (Hippocrene Beginner's Series). This beginner's guide gives you the basics to start speaking Finnish today. Finnish is the language spoken by the majority of Finns and by ethnic Finns in other countries. It is also the official minority language in some parts of Sweden and Norway. Ideal for students, tourists, and business people, this...
Harry N. Abrams, 2001. — 550 p. People have shaped the landscape around them since prehistoric times, creating places as diverse in form and meaning as Stonehenge, the Forbidden City of Beijing, Versailles, and New York's Central Park. Overflowing with hundreds of plans, drawings, and photographs, many created specially for this book, this engrossing volume spans the history of...
University of California Press, 1967. — 556 p. — (California studies in the history of art 6). An important in depth reference on history, religion and arts, from apparel to architecture, with a strong emphasis on seals and coins. Several long chapters on coins, including 16 large, sharp coin plates.
McGraw-Hill, 1961. — 522 p. For the first time, a complete history of Jewish art is presented in a many-sided account ranging from the second millennium before the Christian era to the present day. Jewish Art, in refuting the widespread impression that traditional religious restrictions prevented the Jews from developing a representational art of their own, shows how the...
Oxford University Press, 2004. — 210 p. There is without question immense general and academic interest in the Islamic world at present. After the attacks on New York and Washington in September 2001 and the wars on Afghanistan and Iraq, 'Islamic Fundamentalism' has come to be seen by many people in the West as the primary threat to world peace. Although not all scholars would...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2002. — 337 p. — (Semitica Viva 28). Based on Old and New Manuscripts, Oral and Written Bible Translations, Folkloric Texts, and Diverse Spoken Registers, with an Introduction to Grammar and Semantics, and an Index of Talmudic Words which Have Reflexes in Jewish Neo-Aramaic. This dictionary is based on old and recent manuscripts, printed texts,...
Gorgias Press, 2020. — 167 p. Based on Sabar's 2002 Jewish Neo-Aramaic dictionary, this dictionary serves a functional purpose for readers and scholars who would like to know the Neo-Aramaic vocabulary. It does not include grammatical or semantic details but does include the origin of the words, be it native Old Aramaic, and, in the case of loanwords, the original lending...
2-nd Edition. — University of Texas Press, 1994. — 440 p. The key to the study of the language and history of the Classic Maya (A.D. 293-900) is the verb. Maya Glyphs: The Verbs is a comprehensive study of the verb morphology and syntax of the Maya writing system. Linda Schele's summary of methodology makes available in a single place many important discoveries and approaches...
4. Auflage — J.B. Metzler, 2024. — 430 S. Diese Einführung bietet einen Überblick über die Entwicklung der deutschen Sprache vom Althochdeutschen bis zum Frühneuhochdeutschen mit Ausblicken auf die jüngere Sprachgeschichte und die Gegenwartssprache. Soweit es für das Verständnis heutiger oder historischer Sprachformen notwendig ist, wird auch das Germanische und Indogermanische...
Harry N. Abrams, 2002. — 388 p. From Chartres to the cathedral of Florence, this volume covers the major Romanesque and Gothic cathedrals in France, England, Germany, Italy and Spain. Over 300 photographs showing the cathedrals inside and out, including close-up architectural and sculptural details and an authoritative text, combine to produce a survey of these buildings.
Carl Winter, 1966. — 492 S. Die vorliegende Grammatik soll in erster Linie eine Darstellung der litauischen Schriftsprache des 20. Jh.s sein. Sie beruht auf den gleichen Materialsammlungen, die von mir in den zwanziger Jahren für das Wörterbuch der litauischen Schriftsprache (Abk. Wb.) begonnen und bis auf den heutigen Tag unaufhörlich weitergeführt worden sind. Das gesamte...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2014. — 347 p. — (Turcologica 99). The Abhidharmakosabha?ya, preserved at the Ethnographic Museum in Stockholm, is the second longest Abhidharma text in Uighur. The important Buddhist text was written in Sanskrit by Vasubandhu and translated into Chinese by Zhen Dì (499–569 AD) and Xuán Zàng (602–664 AD). Later during the Yuan Dynasty the text was...
Penguin Books, 1988. — 530 p. With almost 4,000 years of artistic evolution--from the Shang Dynasty to the end of the Ch'ing in this century--the Chinese boast a longer span of cultural history than any other race. The abiding influence of tradition is stressed by both authors. Confucian restraint and Taoist escapism, among other religious and philosophical ideals, are...
Griffith Institute: Ashmolean Museum, 1996. — 302 p. Studies on the grammar of the ancient Egyptian language, written in a demotic letter in the time of the Ptolemies. The study is based on the decrees of Memphis (192 BC), Canopus (238 BC), Rafia (217 BC) and Phile Island. 186 and 184 BC).
Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2018. — 149 p. — (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Iranistik 83). More than 150 documents in Bactrian, the chief administrative language of pre-Islamic Afghanistan, have come to light during the last twenty-five years. These documents include letters, legal contracts, economic documents and a few Buddhist texts; many...
Teach Yourself Books, 1986. — 320 p. Functional and fun, this course offers full pronunciation guides, grammar summaries, dialogues, cultural notes, vocabulary charts, and irregular verb tables. Ideal for complete language study from comprehension, to speaking and writing skills, to understanding the culture.
Slavica, 1986. — 369 p. This book is a sequel to and continuation of the author's immensely successful First Year Polish. It is intended for use in the late second through the third year of language study. The text is also suited for independent study. Upon completing this course, the student should have a good control of standard colloquial Polish, a broad knowledge of Polish...
L'Harmattan, 1997. — 371 p. Pour la première fois, un livre concernant la langue et la culture biélorussiennes paraît en français. Une présentation générale et des articles sur l'histoire permettent de faire connaissance avec ce pays méconnu. Cet ouvrage allie à la fois les aspects linguistiques et littéraires de cette culture en proposant guide de conversation, grammaire,...
Hippocrene Books, 2005. — 708 p. — (Hippocrene Practical Dictionary). The 31,000 entries in this dictionary are packed with expressions, illustrative examples and essential phrases. It is the first dictionary of its kind which is based entirely on present-day English and Hungarian usage. The dictionary gives a wide range of practical, colloquial, business, medical and technical...
Archaeopress, 2021. — 136 p. — (Archaeopress Egyptology 32). Representations and inscriptions on tomb and temple walls and individual stelae have provided considerable knowledge of ancient Egyptian daily life, religious custom and military achievements. However, as visual or eulogistic textual evidence they are unable to provide the insight into the people themselves, their...
Türkiye Bilimler Akademisi, 2016. — 685 s. Prof. Tietze’nin ömrünün büyük kısmını verdiği ve metin tarama yöntemiyle 700 yıllık bir döneme ait çok sayıda kitabın incelenmesini içeren titiz bir çalışmanın ürünü olan Lugat; 60 bin civarında maddeyi içeriyor. Çalışma, 14. yüzyıldan başlayarak Eski Anadolu ve Rumeli Türkçesi ve 20. yüzyıl sonuna kadar standart Türkiye Türkçesini...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 411 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). This book presents and analyzes various features of the morpho-syntax of Borgomanerese, a Gallo-Italic dialect spoken in the town of Borgomanero, in the Piedmont region of Northern Italy. The study is comparative, drawing on the literature on numerous other Italian dialects and Romance languages...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2021. — 258 p. — (Dialects of English 21). This book is the first full-scale scientific study of East Anglian English. The author is a native East Anglian sociolinguist and dialectologist who has devoted decades to the study of the speechways of Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Essex. He examines their relationships to other varieties of English in...
2., völlig überarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage — Verlag Otto Sagner, 2014. — 591 S. — (Slavistische Beiträge 494). Die völlig überarbeitete und erweiterte Neuauflage des seit 1998 bewährten zweiten Bandes des Praktischen Lehrbuchs des Kirchenslavischen ist nicht nur typographisch verbessert, hinsichtlich des Wissensstandes aktualisiert und mit der 5., völlig neu bearbeiteten...
Hippocrene Books, 2013. — 244 p. — (Hippocrene Beginner's Series). The native language of about 23 million people, Dutch is spoken in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, and holds official status in the Caribbean nations of Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, and St Maarten. This title includes a short primer on Dutch history and culture as well as twelve practical lessons with...
Museum of Modern Art, 1986. — 272 p. Before World War I, Vienna was not only the governing capital of a vast empire but also the intellectual and artistic huh of Central Europe. In the music of Gustav Mahler and Arnold Schonberg, in Sigmund Freud's psy choanalytic studies, in the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, and in many other areas, this cosmopolitan city became a crucial...
Hippocrene Books, 2012. — 236 p. Over 52 million people speak Tamil in India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Singapore, with an estimated 800,000 speakers elsewhere in the world. Tamil is the official language of the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. With over 6,000 dictionary entries, a comprehensive listing of essential phrases, and a helpful section on pronunciation, this...
Native Child Dinétah, 2014. — 71 p. First published in 1958, this is a simple and concise Navajo–English only dictionary. It has over 9000 entries and contains many useful every day expressions. It was originally intended for the native Navajo speaker to learn English and for non–Navajos who want to acquire some knowledge of the Navajo language.
Lincom Europa, 2007. — 96 p. — (Languages of the world: Materials 371). This book provides a grammatical description of the Sabellic languages of ancient Italy, focusing on Oscan, Umbrian, and South Picene. These languages are attested through written documents (inscriptions incised on stone, metal, and ceramic) that date from the 7th century BCE to the 1st century AD. As a...
Laurence King Publishing, 2005. — 718 p. In this highly acclaimed survey David Watkin traces the history of western architecture from the earliest times in Mesopotamia to Egypt to the dramatic impact of CAD (computer-aided esign) on architectural practice at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Adopting an approach that sees architectural history as a living continuity...
Helmut Buske, 2021. — 212 S. Der Band gibt erstmals in deutscher Sprache einen Überblick über das Arabische in seinem kulturellen und historischen Kontext. Er berücksichtigt sowohl das enge Verhältnis zwischen arabischer Sprache und muslimischer Religion als auch die Einbettung des Arabischen in die semitische Sprachfamilie. Im Kontrast zur modernen westlichen Sichtweise wird...
Royal Collection, 2007. — 433 p. This book celebrates one of the most exciting periods in European art bringing together 93 paintings and 90 drawings from the Royal Collection. The earliest paintings in the book date from the beginning of the sixteenth century and include Giovanni Bellini’s 'Portrait of a Young Man', Lorenzo Costa’s 'Portrait of a Lady with a Lapdog', and the...
Oxford University Press, 1970. — 946 p. A comprehensive dictionary of proverbs in all their variant forms from the earliest recorded use, with generous cross-referencing and precise identification of sources.
Press, 1977. — 214 p. I wrote the following grammar about four years ago. Since then, I have had little time to revise it. In the spring semester of 1967, I hastily mimeographed it for use with several students who were beginning their study of Coptic here at Duke University. This grammar is designed to be used before setting the student adrift in Till. In one semester, we...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2023. — 507 p. — (Studien zu den Bogazköy-Texten 72.2). The Luwian language belongs to the Anatolian group of the Indo-European language family and thus constitutes a close relative of Hittite. As a rule, the Luwian cuneiform passages represent incantations embedded in Hittite religious texts. Although their full corpus was published in the twentieth...
Clarendon Press, 1967. — 568 p. While it cannot be said that the study of Icelandic has been neglected in Britain, there can be no doubt that it might with advantage become much more general than it has been. There are several good reasons why it should be so. The Scandinavian influence was the earliest, and one of the strongest, of those outward forces which have gone to the...
М.: Рудомино, 2005. — 213 с. Монография А.А.Крола затрагивает вопросы становления государства в древнем Египте. Период, который автор исследует - это время проявления самых характерных основ египетской цивилизации, которые оказали влияние на историю Средиземноморья и живы по сей день, прежде всего, в духовности современной европейской цивилизации. Как писал выдающийся...
Tankönyvkiadó, 1984. — 151 с. Настоящая работа предназначена в первую очередь для советских преподавателей-филологов, обучающих венгерских студентов, однако актуальные вопросы, связанные с изучением венгерского и русского языков, дают возможность расширить круг читателей. Цель настоящей работы дать возможность советским преподавателям познакомиться с основами системы...
Москва. Наука-Восточная литература, 2015. — 570 с. Учебник ориентирован на студентов, уже владеющих основами арабского языка и изучающих этот язык как основной в пределах академического уровня «Бакалавриат» на 2-м и 3-м годах обучения. Учебник создавался в рамках образовательных стандартов нового поколения и впервые в российской учебной литературе охватывает в столь полном...