2. Auflage — Reise Know-How Verlag Peter Rump, 2017. — 163 S. — (Kauderwelsch 165). Korsika gehört zwar zu Frankreich, dennoch haben die Korsen einen ganz eigenständigen Charakter und eine unabhängige Kultur, die sich nur durch die korsische Sprache erfahren lässt. Wer also wirklich mit den Menschen in Kontakt treten und das wahre Korsika erfahren will, sollte diesen...
Routledge, 2020. — 517 p. In Ebla , Paolo Matthiae presents the results of 47 years of excavations at this fascinating site, providing a detailed account of Ebla’s history and archaeology. Ebla grew from a small Early Bronze Age settlement into an important trading and political centre, which endured until its final destruction in c. 1600 BC . The destruction of its royal...
The University of Texas Press, 1967. — 426 p. This volume, the fifth in the Handbook of Middle American Indians, presents a summary of work accomplished since the Spanish conquest in the contemporary description and historical reconstruction of the indigenous languages and language families of Mexico and Central America. The essays include the following: “Inventory of...
University of Alabama Press, 1964. — 536 p. — (Alabama Linguistic and Philological Series 3). La revision de cet ouvrage, en vue de la huitieme edition, a consiste en corrections purement materielles et n'impliquant aucun changement dans les vues de l'auteur. Mais si le texte est reste identique a celui que A. Meillet avait etabli pour Ia septieme edition, la bibliographie a...
L'Harmattan, 2007. — 230 p. Ce livre présente cette langue de Guinée-Bissau, des éléments de conversation courante, quelques textes bilingues, des données sur la culture du peuple manjak ainsi que deux lexiques, manjak-français et français-manjak. C'est le premier ouvrage aussi complet sur la langue et la culture de ce peuple.
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 1962. — 249 S. Über ein Vierteljahrhundert ist vergangen, seitdem der erste Versuch einer lexikalischen Erfassung des hieroglyphischen Hethitischen, mein „Glossar“, als Anhang zu einer Behandlung der „längsten Bauinschriften in heth. Hieroglyphen“ in den MVAeG XXXIX 1 (1934) erschienen ist. Der inzwischen eingetretene Zuwachs an Material, worunter an...
Parkstone International, 2012. — 256 p. Pieter Brueghel was the first important member of a family of artists who were active for four generations. Firstly a drawer before becoming a painter later, he painted religious themes, such as Babel Tower, with very bright colours. Influenced by Hieronymus Bosch, he painted large, complex scenes of peasant life and scripture or...
Clarendon Press, 1985. — 1080 p. Aims to chart the whole realm of the syntax of Old English. The difficulties inherent in the study of old English syntax make a prescriptive analysis virtually impossible at this point. For this reason, the books do not lay down rules but rather make suggestions, demonstrate, where appropriate, the possibility of different interpretation,...
Rüdiger Köppe, 2009. — 364 p. — (Berber studies 26). This volume contains a survey devoted to the Berber language of the town Zuara on the west coast of Libya. Little was known about this language when T.F. Mitchell (1919–2007) started to study it in the late forties. The data given in this volume concerning language contact and related subject areas are as relevant as when...
The Research Institute of Cultural Heritage and Tourism, 2019. — 209 p. Antigoni Zournatzi: “Travels in the East with Herodotus and the Persians: Herodotus (4.36.2-45) on the Geography of Asia” Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis: “From Mithradat I (c. 171-138 BCE) to Mithradat II (c. 122/1-91 BCE): the Formation of Arsacid Parthian Iconography” D.T. Potts and R.P. Adams: “The Elymaean...
Wydawnictwo Wyższej Szkoły, 2017. — 316 s. Powstanie niniejszej książki zainspirowały wykłady z historii języka prowadzone od lat dla studentów niderlandystyki. Pomyślana jest ona przede wszystkim jako pomoc naukowa towarzysząca zajęciom dydaktycznym z tego przedmiotu. Skorzystać z niej mogą oczywiście także wszyscy zainteresowani historią języka niderlandzkiego. W ujęciu...
Phaidon Press, 1994. — 344 p. Antique Maps is now firmly established as a definitive reference work. With extensive information on the general historical background, details of all the major map-makers and practical advice on collecting old maps, it provides an excellent introduction for the beginner as well as a mass of precise and clearly organized information for the expert...
Dover Publications, 1975. — 356 p. — (Dover books on the ancient world). The present book is both the summation of Morley's researches and much the best introduction for the student for reading Maya hieroglyphs. Exlremely full in interpretation, including speculation legitimate at the time; very thorough in the exposition of variants and unusual features, with reproductions of...
Charles Scribners Sons, 1983. — 304 p. Traces the development of the Chinese garden tradition, describes famous gardens in China, and discusses the design principles of Chinese gardens
University of California Press, 1974. — 143 p. The Pomo, or Pomoan, family of seven related languages is located in northern California, primarily on Clear Lake, the Russian River, and adjacent sections of the coast. The individual languages of the family are usually referred to by terms giving their geographic locations relative to one another, hence South-eastern Pomo and...
Penguin Books, 1984. — 484 p. This dictionary covers the last seven centuries, up to Picasso and Pop Art. Short biographies of over 1,000 painters, sculptors and engravers fill the greater part of it; these contain facts and dates of the artists career, a note of galleries exhibiting his work, and an estimate of his style. The dictionary also defines artistic movements, terms...
Pearson, 2015. — 434 p. Illuminates the rich history of Asian Art from ancient times to the present. Asian Art provides students with an accessible introduction to the history of Asian Art. Students will gain an understanding of the emergence and evolution of Asian art in all its diversity. Using a range of analytical skills, readers will learn to recognize patterns of...
Brill, 2021. — 1507 p. — (Languages of Asia 24). This volume offers the critical edition and an English translation of the oldest translation of the Pentateuch into Western Karaim copied in 1720 by Simcha ben Chananel (died 1723). The manuscript was compared against several other Karaim translations of the Torah as well as with the standard text of the Hebrew Bible. The author...
Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, 1999. — 607 p. — (Asian and African Lexicon 34). For the Beduins, a basically nomadic Arab people in the deserts, tribal genealogis have long been important for establishing identities and socio-political relationships. Respect remains for their tribal genealogis, even while most Arab people enjoy modern urban...
ElectaRizzoli, 1986. — 250 p. The History of World Architecture is one of Electas history series, a milestone in the evolution of architecture books, owing to the make-up of each individual volume and especially to its international scope. The presence of authoritative scholars, the combination of texts and illustrations and the careful use of accurate yet accessible terms,...
J. Paul Getty Museum, 2008. — 216 p. This is a superbly illustrated exploration of the finest ancient frescos found in Pompeii, Herculaneum, Oplontis, and Rome. Visitors to the residences of ancient Rome cannot help but be astonished by their grand architecture and enchanting wall paintings, still vibrant with cinnabar reds, golden yellows, and deep greens. "The Splendor of...
Phaidon Press, 1977. — 72 p. The great age of Flemish painting lasted from 1420 to 1640, beginning in Bruges and Ghent, and then in the rising commercial centres of Brussels and Antwerp. The early artists, van Eyck and Van der Weyden, were instrumental in perfecting the techniques of oil painting and exploiting its potential, especially in portraiture. In this book from the...
Gorgias Press, 2011. — 111 p. — (Gorgias Handbooks 21). The book is designed for students who wish to learn the principles of Latin phonetics as well as for more advanced students who wish to review or reevaluate these principles in the light of further philological and linguistic evidence. The body of the book comprises an extensive discussion of the various historical changes...
Institute for the Study of Man, 1991-92. — 512 p. — (Journal of Indo-European Studies. Monograph 7 and 9). Volume I Mohammad Ali Jazayery - Edgar C. Polomé: A Biographical Sketch Homer Thomas - Indo-European: From the Paleolithic to the Neolithic Emily Lyle - Markedness and Encompassment in Relation to Indo-European Cosmogony V.N. Toporov - Indo-European *eg’h-om (*He-g’h-om):...
Museum Tours Press, 2013. — 140 p. This paperback version of the Hieroglyphic Sign List was developed as an outgrowth of our popular, pocket-sized Sign List book. By increasing its size we were able to overcome most of the limitations of the smaller book. It is not just a larger version of the spiral bound book. It has been completely re-edited and updated. Definitions are more...
Peeters, 2008. — 693 p. — (Collection Linguistique publiée par la Société de Linguistique de Paris 95). Le nom de tokharien a été donné à la langue de manuscrits découverts au nord du désert du Taklamakan, dans l'actuel Xinjiang, a l'ouest de la Chine, depuis 1892. Ces documents peuvent être situés largement entre le Ve et le Xe siècle de notre ère, et plusieurs peuvent être...
Leuven; Paris; Bristol: Peeters, 2021. — x, 281 p. — (Acta Iranica 57). — ISBN 978-90-429-3264-7. Dans le présent volume 57 d'Acta Iranica, Éric Pirart (Université de Liège, Sociedad de Estudios Iranios y Turanios) joint, a l’édition d'une contribution posthume de Xavier Tremblay (Universitat zu Köln), divers exposes de linguistique iranienne avec lesquels plusieurs amis...
Praha: Libri, 2007. — 390 s. — ISBN: 978-80-7277-333-6.
Dvojice autorů specialistů-kastellologů (jeden z Moravy, jeden ze Slovenska) přináší vůbec první ucelený výčet a podrobný popis hradů na Slovensku. Kniha koncepčně navazuje na svazky Libri o českých, respektive moravských hradech, přináší úvodní stať o vývoji hradní architektury, abecedně řazený lexikon, je vybavena...
Hippocrene Books, 2001. — 212 p. — (Hippocrene Beginner's Series). The essential rules of Italian grammar are clearly explained in a series of ten lessons, each composed of a conversational dialogue, vocabulary, and exercises to accompany the grammar explanations. In addition, a chapter focusing on the Italian verb system, an Italian-English vocabulary, and a key to the...
Institut d'Etudes Slaves, 2010. — 342 p. — (Documents pédagogiques de l'Institut d'Etudes Slaves 43). Comme celui de toutes les langues slaves, l'apprentissage du tchèque par un locuteur natif romanophone réserve bien des joies, en particulier la découverte d'un système verbal pour le moins déconcertant. A priori moins riche en nuances temporelles que celui des langues romanes,...
Hippocrene Books, 1995. — 548 p. — (Beginner's Guides). Up-to-date language instruction guide for students with little or no background in Vietnamese. This book also teaches about the country's history and culture, including social customs, dining out and other daily issues. Also provided are basic language skills, vocabulary, grammar and phrases to move about freely in the...
Impr. Luthérienne Antsahamanitra, 1966. — 96 p. Parler malgache: méthode pour apprendre le malgache usuel en quarante leçons avec un Précis de Grammaire et des Exercices de Traduction.
J.J. Augustin, 1952. — 423 S. Die dreibändige Monographie von Hermann Ranke (1878-1953), Professor an der Universität Heidelberg und Direktor des Instituts für Ägyptologie, untersucht seine Personennamen im alten Ägypten. Dies ist eine der groß angelegten Studien zur altägyptischen Onomastik, gefüllt mit typisch deutscher punktueller Präzision. Das Profil jedes Namens umfasst...
Walter de Gruyter, 2019. — 1118 p. The modern history of Egypt and Sudan has radically intervened in the Nubian world several times and continues to do so to this day: After the great dam construction of the 20th century, new dam, construction and prospecting projects are also the reason for the 21st century enormous time pressure to explore large-scale Nubian terrain. As a...
Peeters, Departement Oosterse Studies, 2010. — 841 p. — (Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta 195). This palaeographic study analyses the development of sign forms during the Early Dynastic period. It presents a series of tables of all published inscriptions, and discusses their chronology and distribution. Further chapters analyse the palaeographic developments contextually within...
SBL Press, 2018. — 355 p. — (Resources for Biblical Study 89). This grammar is intended for students of Hebrew who wish to learn more about the history of the Hebrew language, specifically its phonology and morphology. Reymond focuses on aspects of Hebrew that will encourage a student to better remember the words and their inflection as well as those that will reinforce general...
Royal Asiatic Society, 1985. — 210 p. The principal inscriptions in this collection can be dated between the years 764 and 840 A.D. They are arranged in groups, one for each of the three reigns to which they relate. They have all been published separately over a period of thirty years but by bringing them together in one volume a convenient source of reference will be provided...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2012. — 703 S. Unter den altorientalischen Sprachen nimmt die Anzahl der hurritischen Textquellen nach dem Sumerischen, Akkadischen und Hethitischen vermutlich die vierte Position ein. Jahrzehntelang nur stiefmütterlich behandelt, hat sich durch die systematische Aufarbeitung der einsprachigen Texte seit den 1970er Jahren sowie durch den Fund einer...
Lincom Europa, 2001. — 89 p. — (Languages of the world: Materials 158). The Vogul language (endogenous name: Mansi) is spoken by approximately 3.000 speakers in northwestern Siberia. Together with Ostyak, it forms the Ob-Ugrian branch of the Finno-Ugrian language family and is generally considered to be closest relative of Hungarian. In the introductory section general...
W. Ludwig Buchverlag, 1985. — 306 S. Wissen Sie, was »Föidhendln« sind oder »Sommermirln«? Franz Ringseis beantwortet in seiner überarbeiteten und um rund 300 Wörter erweiterten Neuauflage des »Neuen Bayerischen Wörterbuches« diese und viele andere Fragen zum Bayerischen. Leicht und einfach anwendbar, gibt dieses handliche Nachschlagewerk über mundartliche Eigenheiten und...
Gorgias Press, 2010. — 110 p. — (Gorgias Handbooks 19). With a written history of nearly five thousand years, the Semitic languages comprise one of the world’s earliest and longest attested families. This volume provides an overview of this important language family, including both ancient and modern languages. After a brief introduction to the history of the family and its...
Stanford University Press, 1991. — 496 p. This volume is the first in a projected series of three, which when complete will constitute a general guide to the world's languages: Volume 1: Classification Volume 2: Language Data Volume 3: Language Universals This first volume discusses the history and present status of the genetic classification of the world's languages and offers...
Hippocrene Books, 2001. — 260 p. — (Hippocrene Practical Dictionary). A fully up-to-date, comprehensive and clearly presented bilingual dictionary--the ideal reference for learners and speakers of Irish.
University of Chicago Press, 2015. — 109 p. The product of twelve years of research and eight more of mapmaking, A Historical Atlas of Tibet documents cultural and religious sites across the Tibetan Plateau and its bordering regions from the Paleolithic and Neolithic times all the way up to today. It ranges through the five main periods in Tibetan history, offering introductory...
2nd Edition — Oxford University Press, 2018. — 468 p. This book provides a detailed but accessible introduction to the development of the German language from the earliest reconstructable prehistory to the present day. Joe Salmons explores a range of topics in the history of the language, offering answers to questions such as: How did German come to have so many different...
Dipartimento di scienza della letteratura, Università di Pavia, 1984. — 346 p. La situazione linguistica in Lombardia La tensione nei dialetti lombardi Premana. Note di storia linguistica minore Emigrazione e dialetto La convergenza linguistica: il milanese Le lettere dei soldati nella formazione dell'italiano popolare unitario Il gergo I cordai di Caslelponzone La lingua dei...
Brill, 2022. — 494 p. — (Brill's Studies in South and Southwest Asian Languages 14). This monograph is a contribution to the documentation of the linguistic situation of the Kinnaur district in Himachal Pradesh (Indian Himalayas) which has been so far almost undescribed. The Sino-Tibetan languages Kinnauri and Navakat and the Indo-Aryan language Kinnauri Pahari, all spoken in...
3rd Edition — Oxford University Press, 2008. — 1802 p. The Oxford German Dictionary provides authoritative coverage of German and English with over 320,000 words and phrases, and 520,000 translations. Essential grammatical information and language usage notes are provided for both languages. This edition of the Oxford German Dictionary includes cultural notes, providing...
Dallgow, 2020. — 2397 S. Dieses altägyptische Wörterbuch ist ein Einzelprojekt für einen unabhängigen Forscher. Die Übersetzung der lexikalischen Elemente erfolgt in deutscher Sprache.