{"title":"Languages Of Asia","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"linguistic-history-of-the-forgotten-islands-book-john-r-bentley-9781905246571","title":"A Linguistic History of the Forgotten Islands","description":"Sakishima comprises a group of islands situated between Okinawa and Taiwan, forming a culturally important bridge between Japan and Taiwan. Studies of the languages of the Ryukyuan islands are valuable for an accurate understanding of the linguistic history of Japan as a whole. This monograph is the first attempt - in any language - at a large-scale reconstruction of the three languages of the southern Ryukyus (Sakishima), viz., Miyako, Yaeyama andYonaguni. An introduction outlines a brief history of the area, with a concise linguistic history, followed by an explanation of the languages studied. Succeeding chapters are devoted to the reconstruction of each of the three proto-languages. The three proto-languages are then compared and proto-Sakishima is reconstructed. This monograph provides data illustrating the importance of the language of Sakishima in understanding the linguistic history of the larger language family of Japonic.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49940697415953,"sku":"GOR013819805","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52150592307473,"sku":"NLS9781905246571","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1905246579.jpg?v=1768559151"},{"product_id":"footprints-of-the-buddha-book-alexander-vovin-9789004449770","title":"The Footprints of the Buddha","description":"“The echo of the stone\/ where I carved the [Buddha’s] honorable footprints\/ reaches the Heaven, […]”.   This book presents the transcription, translation, and analysis of Chinese (753 AD) and Japanese inscriptions (end of the 8th century AD) found on two stones now in the possession of the Yakushiji temple in Nara. All these inscriptions praise the footprints of Buddha, and more exactly their carvings in the stone. The language of the Japanese inscription, which consists of twenty-one poems, reflects the contemporary dialect of Nara. Its writing system shows a quite unique trait, being practically monophonic. The book is richly illustrated by photos of the temple and of the inscriptions.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49955719676177,"sku":"CIN9004449779G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52679113802001,"sku":"NLS9789004449770","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9004449779.jpg?v=1768561140"},{"product_id":"descriptive-grammar-and-diachrony-of-kurima-book-aleksandra-jarosz-9789004680531","title":"Descriptive Grammar and Diachrony of Kurima","description":"Spoken on Kurima, a miniscule island in the Miyakojima municipality in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, Kurima-Miyako is a South Ryukyuan topolect, a regional variant of the Miyako language. With most fluent speakers aged 80 or older and the island’s depopulation progressing, the topolect of Kurima faces imminent extinction, a reflection of a common pattern in the Ryukyus, whereupon the vernaculars of small islands and isolated remote areas have been facing multifold minorization for decades on the part of the dominant variety\/varieties of the area (Shimoji and Hirara in the case of Kurima), Okinawan, and standard Japanese. Responding to the urgent task of producing a comprehensive description while it still has native speakers, the present volume is the first ever attempt at a systemic presentation of the Kurima topolect in any language. It also uses comparative evidence from Ryukyuan and Mainland Japonic languages to provide new proto-language reconstructions and offer insights into the history of Japonic languages.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51066191708433,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51066193838353,"sku":"NIN9789004680531","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52677861245201,"sku":"NLS9789004680531","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9004680535.jpg?v=1768559684"},{"product_id":"philology-of-the-grasslands-book-bela-kempf-9789004351950","title":"Philology of the Grasslands","description":"Professor Gy rgy Kara, an outstanding member of academia, celebrated his 80th birthday recently. His students and colleagues commemorate this occasion with papers on a wide range of topics in Altaic Studies, with a focus on the literacy, culture and languages of the steppe civilizations.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52135377895697,"sku":"NLS9789004351950","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9789004351950.jpg?v=1768562161"},{"product_id":"phonological-reconstruction-of-proto-hlai-book-peter-norquest-9789004300163","title":"A Phonological Reconstruction of Proto-Hlai","description":"In A Phonological Reconstruction of Proto-Hlai, Norquest presents a reconstruction of Proto-Hlai based on data from twelve Hlai languages spoken on Hainan, China. This reconstruction includes chapters on both the Proto-Hlai initials and rimes, and original sesquisyllabic forms are shown to be necessary to account for the reflexes between the daughter languages. A comparison is made between Proto-Hlai and Proto-Tai, and a preliminary reconstruction of Proto Southern Kra-Dai (the immediate ancestor of Proto-Hlai) is performed. When this is compared with Proto-Hlai, it is shown that several important sound changes occurred between Pre-Hlai and Proto-Hlai. The aberrant Jiamao language is also examined, focusing on its complex contact relationships with other Hlai languages.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52137087172881,"sku":"NLS9789004300163","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9789004300163.jpg?v=1768561105"},{"product_id":"endangered-languages-of-the-caucasus-and-beyond-book-ramazan-korkmaz-9789004325647","title":"Endangered Languages of the Caucasus and Beyond","description":"According to UNESCO, it is believed that at least half of the nearly 7,000 languages spoken around the world will cease to be used within the next 100 years. If this issue is neglected, people will lose not only their cultural heritage but also invaluable understandings about the history of all humankind. Endangered Languages of the Caucasus and Beyond includes the manuscripts of 19 papers that were presented at the 1st International CUA Conference on Endangered Languages, organized by the Caucasus University Association (CUA), at Ardahan, Turkey, on 13 to 16 October 2014. The articles address issues such as the state of the field of documentation, conservation and revitalization of endangered languages with special reference to the endangered languages in the Caucasus region and beyond.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52141868187921,"sku":"NLS9789004325647","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9789004325647.jpg?v=1768560806"},{"product_id":"new-materials-on-the-khitan-small-script-book-yingzhe-wu-9781906876500","title":"New Materials on the Khitan Small Script","description":"This volume contains a state-of-the-art survey of Khitan Small Script studies, accompanied by a critical analysis of two recently discovered and previously unpublished epigraphic documents. The texts are reproduced in the original script, in transcription as well as in facsimile, and are supported by a preliminary translation, linguistic comments and index. This is the first ever critical edition of Khitan texts, and the two epigraphic documents analysed in the volume constitute a substantial addition to the extant corpus of Khitan Small Script materials.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52434497274129,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52434497995025,"sku":"NLS9781906876500","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781906876500.jpg?v=1768558314"},{"product_id":"translation-chapter-of-the-late-ming-lulongsai-lue-book-apatczky-9789004302808","title":"The Translation Chapter of the Late Ming Lulongsai Lüe","description":"In this book, Ákos Bertalan Apatóczky offers a complete reconstruction of the Chinese-Mongol vocabulary of the 17th century comprehensive Chinese military work called Lulongsai lüe (盧龍塞略, LLSL), a document of key importance containing one of the last Sino-Mongol glossaries without proper critical reconstruction until now. The work has resulted in a clarification of the earlier sources the compilers of LLSL used in the bilingual part. The author argues that contrary to what scholars have thought of it until now, the linguistic corpus of  the glossary is not homogeneous and does not represent a single linguistic status; it does, however, shed some light on chronological and philological questions concerning the earlier works incorporated in it.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52591320531217,"sku":"NLS9789004302808","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9789004302808.jpg?v=1768559902"},{"product_id":"historical-linguistics-and-philology-of-central-asia-book-bayarma-khabtagaeva-9789004499959","title":"Historical Linguistics and Philology of Central Asia","description":"András Róna-Tas, distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Szeged, Hungary, winner of several international prestigious prizes, has devoted his long academic career to the study of Chuvash, Turkic elements in Hungarian, Mongolic-Tibetan linguistic contacts, the Para-Mongolic language Khitan and other Central Asian languages and cultures.  This book, presented to him in the occasion of his 90th birthday, contains a collection of papers in Turkic and Mongolic Studies, with a focus on the literacy, culture, and languages of the steppe civilizations. It is organized in three sections: Turkic Studies, Mongolic Studies, and Linguistic and cultural contacts of Altaic languages. It contains papers by some of most renowned experts in Central Asia Studies.   Contributors are Klára Agyagási, Ákos Bertalan Apatóczky, Ágnes Birtalan, Uwe Bläsing, Éva Csáki, Éva Ágnes Csató, Edina Dallos, Marcel Erdal, Stefan Georg, Peter Golden, Mária Ivanics, Juha Janhunen, Lars Johanson, György Kara, Bayarma Khabtagaeva, Jens Peter Laut, Raushangul Mukusheva, Olach Zsuzsanna, Benedek Péri, Elisabetta Ragagnin, Pavel Rykin, Uli Schamiloglu, János Sipos, István Vásáry, Alexander Vovin, Michael Weiers, Jens Wilkens, Wu Yingzhe, Emine Yilmaz, and Peter Zieme.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52666337624337,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52666338476305,"sku":"NLS9789004499959","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9789004499959.jpg?v=1768559432"},{"product_id":"studies-in-japanese-and-korean-historical-and-theoretical-linguistics-and-beyond-book-alexander-vovin-9789004350854","title":"Studies in Japanese and Korean Historical and Theoretical Linguistics and Beyond","description":"The Studies in Japanese and Korean Historical and Theoretical Linguistics and Beyond presented in honour of Prof. John B. Whitman includes contributions by a range of mid-generation to senior scholars among his closest colleagues and collaborators representing the front line of contemporary research in the areas of historical and theoretical linguistics of Japanese and Korean as well of Chinese, Turkish, and Russian. Particularly, in all these areas it deals with still ongoing debates about the important issues in historical and theoretical linguistics concerning these languages that are reflected in articles often representing opposing points of view. This book can serve as a good introduction to the current state-of-art and the most essential problems in the fields it covers.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52668264055057,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52668264612113,"sku":"NLS9789004350854","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9789004350854.jpg?v=1768563416"},{"product_id":"language-endangerment-and-obsolescence-in-east-asia-book-elia-dal-corso-9789004519046","title":"Language Endangerment and Obsolescence in East Asia","description":"What shapes and magnitude can language loss have in East Asian endangered languages? How does it differ with regards to the languages' historical development and sociolinguistic environment? This book surveys a number of minority and, in most cases, endangered languages spoken in China, Japan, Taiwan, and Russia which all face, or have faced in their recent history, loss of language features. The contributions in this publication present you with different cases of obsolescence attested throughout East Asia and highlight how this process, though often leading back to common causes, is in fact a multifaceted reality with diverse repercussions on grammar and linguistic vitality.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52678377570577,"sku":"NLS9789004519046","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9789004519046.jpg?v=1768559509"},{"product_id":"endangered-languages-of-northeast-asia-book-elisabetta-ragagnin-9789004503427","title":"Endangered Languages of Northeast Asia","description":"Have you ever wondered what is really happening to minority languages of Northeast Asia and which efforts are being taken both by “westerners” and local people to preserve and promote them?  Would you like to discover, uncover, and tackle deep linguistic questions of such small but highly important languages such as Khamnigan Mongol, Wutun, Sartul-Buryat, Tofan and Sakhalin Ainu, just to mention a few? Would you like to know how simple smart phone apps can help communities to preserve, love and use their native language?  This book, containing a rich selection of contributions on various aspects of language endangerment, emic and etic approaches at language preservation, and contact-linguistics, is an important contribution to the Unesco's Indigenous Languages Decade, which has right now started (2022-2032).","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52679413989649,"sku":"NLS9789004503427","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9789004503427.jpg?v=1768563429"},{"product_id":"old-japanese-complement-system-book-janick-wrona-9781901903195","title":"The Old Japanese Complement System","description":"The present study is the first large-scale investigation of the syntax of Old Japanese (mainly eighth-century Japanese). It gives a detailed account of complement clauses and related constructions in Old Japanese, based on an exhaustive investigation of the extant text corpus. The aim is twofold: first, to give a synchronic description of the types of complementation which are found in this period and of the system they are part of. Second, to address the diachronic issues of the origin of the Old Japanese complement system and more widely the pre-history of complementation in Japanese. Janick Wrona's study will be of interest to historical linguists and Japanologists alike.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52680745320721,"sku":"NLS9781901903195","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781901903195.jpg?v=1768561450"},{"product_id":"russian-yakut-ewenki-trilingual-dictionary-by-n-v-sljunin-book-de-fuente-9789004375628","title":"A Russian-Yakut-Ewenki Trilingual Dictionary by N. V. Sljunin","description":"In “A Russian-Yakut-Ewenki Trilingual Dictionary” by N.V. Sljunin, José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente offers the philological edition of a very early twentieth-century source of two indigenous languages from Siberia.  This edition includes the facsimile of the original handwritten document.  Whereas specialists have known about the existence of Sljunin’s Yakut data by indirect references to it in at least one standard dictionary, there was no available information regarding Sljunin’s Ewenki data.   Furthermore, careful linguistic analysis reveals that the Ewenki variety reflected in Sljunin’s dictionary may have already dissapeared.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52681233006865,"sku":"NLS9789004375628","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9789004375628.jpg?v=1768560236"},{"product_id":"tangut-language-and-manuscripts-an-introduction-book-hansong-li-9789004414532","title":"Tangut Language and Manuscripts: An Introduction","description":"In Tangut Language and Manuscripts, Shi Jinbo offers by far the fullest introduction to the Tangut script, grammar and manuscripts, which lay the foundation of historical narratives of Western Xia.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52681332490513,"sku":"NLS9789004414532","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9789004414532.jpg?v=1768562598"},{"product_id":"middle-western-karaim-book-nmeth-9789004414228","title":"Middle Western Karaim","description":"This volume offers the first comprehensive study on the history of Middle Western Karaim dialects. The author provides a systematic description of sound changes dating from the 17th–19th-centuries and reconstructs their absolute- and relative chronologies. In addition, the main morphological peculiarities are presented in juxtaposition to Modern Western Karaim data.  The textual basis for this historical-linguistic investigation is a critical edition of pre-1800 Western Karaim interpretations of Hebrew religious songs called piyyutim (149 texts altogether). The reason behind this choice is that some of these texts are among the oldest known Western Karaim texts in general, and that until now no study has brought the Karaim translation tradition in this genre closer to the reader.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52681382232337,"sku":"NLS9789004414228","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9789004414228.jpg?v=1768557646"},{"product_id":"austroasiatic-syntax-in-areal-and-diachronic-perspective-book-mathias-jenny-9789004396951","title":"Austroasiatic Syntax in Areal and Diachronic Perspective","description":"Austroasiatic Syntax in Areal and Diachronic Perspective elevates historical morpho-syntax to a research priority in the field of Southeast Asian language history, transcending the traditional focus on phonology and lexicon. The volume contains eleven chapters covering a wide range of aspects of diachronic Austroasiatic syntax, most of which contain new hypotheses, and several address topics that have never been dealt with before in print, such as clause structure and word order in the proto-language, and reconstruction of Munda morphology successfully integrating it into Austroasiatic language history. Also included is a list of proto-AA grammatical words with evaluative and contextualizing comments.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52681860743441,"sku":"NLS9789004396951","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9789004396951.jpg?v=1768562504"},{"product_id":"descriptive-and-comparative-grammar-of-western-old-japanese-book-alexander-vovin-9781905246823","title":"A Descriptive and Comparative Grammar of Western Old Japanese","description":"Together with Part 1 of the same grammar (Sources, Script and Phonology, Lexicon and Nominals), this two-volume set represents the most detailed and exhaustive description ever done of any language, including Japanese of the Old Japanese language of the Yamato region during the Asuka Nara period. It presents hundreds of examples drawn not only from the major Old Japanese texts such as the Man’yoshu, the Senmyo, the Kojiki kayo and the Nihonshoki kayo but also from all minor extant texts such as the Fudoky kayo, the Bussoku seki ka, and others. It also includes comparative material from Eastern Old Japanese once spoken in the area roughly corresponding to present-day southern Chubu and Kanto regions, as well as from Ryukyuan and occasionally from other surrounding languages. Part 2 is accompanied by exhaustive and cumulative indexes to both volumes, including separate indexes on all grammatical forms described, linguistic forms, personal names, as well as an index of all Old Japanese texts that are used as examples in the description.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52692860961041,"sku":"NLS9781905246823","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781905246823.jpg?v=1768563090"},{"product_id":"yiyu-an-indexed-critical-edition-of-a-sixteenth-century-sino-mongolian-glossary-book-apatczky-9781905246021","title":"Yiyu - An Indexed Critical Edition of a Sixteenth Century Sino-Mongolian Glossary","description":"The Yiyu (Beilu yiyu) - a Chinese-Middle Mongol glossary included in the Dengtan Bijiu (a military handbook for generals compiled during the Wanli period of the Ming dynasty) - is an important source regarding the history of the Mongolian language. The manuscript version of Yiyu is a copy made for Louis Ligeti on his first expedition to China (1928-31) and is now conserved by the Oriental Collection of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In his edition the author reconstructs the often chaotic material of the Yiyu with the help of other available Yiyu texts. Next to its contribution in transcription and reconstruction, this work is indispensable in terms of linguistic analysis, dealing with much investigated issues of Middle Mongol (e.g. suffixes, unstable -n nouns, representation of the initial h-, loanwords in the lexicon, lack or presence of intervocalic velar fricatives etc.). A full word index, a classical Mongolian reference wordlist and four other indexes are included in this edition as well as the facsimile photocopies of both the manuscript and a block print version of the glossary.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53349823414545,"sku":"NLS9781905246021","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781905246021.jpg?v=1774656183"},{"product_id":"esquisse-de-phonologie-et-de-morphologie-historique-du-tangoute-book-guillaume-jacques-9789004264847","title":"Esquisse de phonologie et de morphologie historique du tangoute","description":"Drawing from Tangut philological sources and from the author's personal fieldwork on the closely related Rgyalrong languages, this book is the first application of the comparative method to the study of Tangut. It contains a detailed account of Tangut historical phonology within the proposed Macro-Rgyalrongic group, and over twenty new sound laws are proposed. It also discusses the issue of language classification and the position of Tangut in the Sino-Tibetan family.  Basé sur la philologie tangoute et sur les études de terrain de l'auteur sur les langues rgyalrongs, qui y sont prochement apparentées, ce livre est la première application de la méthode comparative à l'étude du tangoute. Il contient une analyse détaillée de la phonologie historique du tangoute au sein du groupe macro-rgyalronguique proposé par l'auteur. Plus de vingt nouvelles lois phonétiques sont exposées pour la première fois. Il discute aussi de la question de la classification des langues et de la position du tangoute au sein de la famille sino-tibétaine.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53349862015249,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53349862244625,"sku":"NLS9789004264847","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9789004264847.jpg?v=1774657289"},{"product_id":"language-contact-in-northern-china-book-redouane-djamouri-9789004750036","title":"Language Contact in Northern China","description":"What happens when Chinese is shaped by centuries of contact with Mongolic, Tungusic, Turkic, and Tibetic languages? This volume explores this question through striking case studies of lects like Tangwang and Wutun, where Chinese exhibits unexpected features such as OV word order, case suffixes, and restructured verbal morphology. Drawing on rare fieldwork data, this volume reveals how deep multilingual interaction transforms grammatical systems. It offers a unique contribution to the study of language change, typology, and contact linguistics--essential reading for anyone interested in how languages evolve in complex sociolinguistic environments.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53352868446481,"sku":"NIN9789004750036","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9789004750036.jpg?v=1774755731"},{"product_id":"old-literary-tibetan-book-joanna-bialek-9789004736269","title":"Old Literary Tibetan","description":"Old Literary Tibetan: A Comprehensive Grammatical Description Based on the \"Old Tibetan Annals\" is a pioneering work in the field of Tibetan written languages, offering unprecedented insights into the earliest documented Tibetic language and one of the earliest written Trans-Himalayan languages. Opening the gate to the oldest preserved Tibetan literature, the book is of great value not only for Tibetologists, but also for linguists thanks to its immense contributions to Trans-Himalayan lingusitics. Bialek’s landmark description of Old Literary Tibetan will be highly valuable in future descriptive and analytical work of other Trans-Himalayan languages, the study of which will undoubtedly substantially benefit from the publication of the grammar.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53352868839697,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53352869036305,"sku":"NIN9789004736269","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9789004736269.jpg?v=1774755739"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/collections\/languages-of-asia-book-series.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}