Bernard Comrie Knihy

Graficky přehledně zpracovaný atlas provází bohatstvím světových jazyků, seznamuje s jejich geografickým rozložením a upozorňuje na jejich příbuzenskou provázanost. Úvod výpravné publikace je věnován otázkám vzniku, vývoje a šíření jazyků. Další kapitoly zkoumají jazykové rodiny a jazyky z hlediska zeměpisných oblastí světa, uvádějí jejich základní charakteristiky a příbuzenské vztahy. V závěru se publikace zabývá původem a vývojem písemných systémů a problematikou přežití jazyků a jazykové pestrosti.

Exploring the diversity of tense systems, this book delves into how different languages express time and aspect. Bernard Comrie examines the structural variations and unique features of these systems, offering insights into linguistic patterns and their implications for understanding human communication. Through a comparative approach, readers gain a deeper appreciation of the complexities and nuances in the ways languages handle temporal expressions.

An extremely authoritative writing style, full-color illustrations, and maps combine in this ultimate exploration of the evolution of languages.

A definitive guide to an almost extinct North Andamanese language. Originally spoken across the northern Andamanese Islands in the Bay of Bengal, the Akajeru language is spoken today by only three people. A Grammar of Akajeru  describes this unique grammatical system as it was reported at the turn of the twentieth century. Based primarily on research conducted by Victorian anthropologists Alfred R. Radcliffe-Brown and Edward Horace Man, this book offers a linguistic analysis of all extant Akajeru material as well as the scant documentation of adjacent dialects Akabo and Akakhora. This volume includes a grammatical sketch of Akajeru, an English-Akajeru lexicon, and a comparison between Akajeru and present-day Andamanese. 

In this paper we will take data from four areas of grammatical structure: argument marking (coded by Birchall), subordination (coded by Van Gijn), the noun phrase (coded by Krasnoukhova), and tame marking (tense/aspect/mood/evidentiality, coded by Müller). These data are compared for 22 lan-guages, thirteen from the Guaporé-Mamoré region in a broad sense, and nine from outside of the region. The key question we were originally asking our-selves is: do the thirteen languages from the region pattern more closely together than the overall set of languages as a whole, including the nine outsiders? It turned out that a somewhat different formulation was better, but we return to this below.

This book describes the most interesting features of over 50 of the world's major languages and language groups.

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