The first volume of Holm's major survey of pidgins and creoles provide an up-to-date and readable introduction to a field of study that has become established only in the past few decades. Written for both students and general readers with a basic... Zobraziť viac
This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the linguistics of Korean. It presents essential facts about the language: its speakers, its relation to other languages of the world, historical development, dialects (including the differences between... Zobraziť viac
This general introduction to the study of the Chinese language traces its history from its beginnings in the second millennium BC to present day and provides a clear picture of the contemporary language and its sociolinguistic status. Zobraziť viac
This second volume of John Holm's Pidgins and Creoles provides an overview of the social-historical development of each of some one hundred known pidgins and creoles. Each variety is grouped according to the language from which it drew its lexicon --... Zobraziť viac
