The Slavonic Languages (Routledge Language Family Series)

Professor Greville Corbett,Professor Bernard Comrie

ISBN 10: 0415047552 / ISBN 13: 9780415047555

Published by Routledge 1993-12-02, 1993

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Slavonic Languages (Routledge Language Family Series)
• Publisher: Routledge 1993-12-02
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415047552
• ISBN 13: 9780415047555
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

In this scholarly volume, each of the living Slavonic languages are analysed and described in depth, together with the two extinct languages - Old Church Slavonic and Polabian. In addition, the various alphabets of the Slavonic languages - particularly Roman, Cyrillic and Glagolitic - are discussed, and the relationships of the Slavonic languages to other Indo-European languages and to one another, are explored. The last chapter provides an account of those Slavonic languages in exile, for example, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Czech and Slovak in the USA.
Each language-chapter is written by an expert in the field, in a format designed for comparative study. Information on each language includes: an introductory description of social context and development (where appropriate); a discussion of phonology; a detailed presentation of synchronic morphology, noting major historical developments; comprehensive treatment of syntactic properties; a discussion of vocabulary; an outline of main dialects; and an extensive bibliography, listing English and other sources.

About the Author

Bernard Comrie is Director at the Department of Linguistics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and also Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Greville G. Corbett is Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at the University of Surrey.