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’ The World s Major Languages ’ The World s Major Languages Second Edition Edited by Bernard Comrie Firsteditionpublishedin 1987byCroomHelm Reprintedwithrevisions andadditionsin1989byRoutledge Secondeditionpublishedin2009byRoutledge 2ParkSquare,MiltonPark, Abingdon,OxonOX144RN www.routledge.co.uk Simultaneouslypublished intheUSAandCanada byRoutledge 270Madison Avenue,NewYorkNY10016 www.routledge.com Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor and Francis Group, an informa business This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2008. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” ©2009BernardComrie Allrightsreserved. Nopartofthisbookmaybereprintedorreproduced or utilizedinanyformorbyanyelectronic,mechanical,orothermeans,nowknown orhereafterinvented,includingphotocopyingandrecording,orinanyinformation storage orretrievalsystem, withoutpermissioninwriting fromthepublishers. BritishLibrary CataloguinginPublication Data Acatalogue recordfor thisbookisavailable fromtheBritishLibrary Library ofCongressCataloguing-in-Publication Data Acatalogrecordfor thisbookhasbeenrequested ISBN 0-203-30152-8 Master e-book ISBN ISBN978-0-415-35339-7(hbk) ISBN978-0-203-30152-4(ebk) Contents List of Contributors ix Preface xi List of Abbreviations xiii Introduction 1 1 Indo-European Languages 23 Philip Baldi 2 Germanic Languages 51 John A. Hawkins 3 English 59 Edward Finegan 4 German 86 John A. Hawkins 5 Dutch 110 Jan G. Kooij 6 Danish, Norwegian and Swedish 125 Einar Haugen 7 Latin and the Italic Languages 145 R.G.G. Coleman 8 Romance Languages 164 John N. Green 9 French 171 Linda R. Waugh and Monique Monville-Burston v CONTENTS 10 Spanish 197 John N. Green 11 Portuguese 217 Stephen Parkinson 12 Italian 233 Nigel Vincent 13 Rumanian 253 Graham Mallinson 14 Slavonic Languages 269 Bernard Comrie 15 Russian 274 Bernard Comrie 16 Polish 289 Gerald Stone 17 Czech and Slovak 305 David Short 18 Serbo-Croat: Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian 330 Greville Corbett and Wayles Browne 19 Greek 347 Brian D. Joseph 20 Indo-Aryan Languages 373 George Cardona and Silvia Luraghi 21 Sanskrit 380 George Cardona and Silvia Luraghi 22 Hindi-Urdu 399 Yamuna Kachru 23 Bengali 417 M.H. Klaiman 24 Iranian Languages 437 J.R. Payne and Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari 25 Persian 445 Gernot L. Windfuhr 26 Pashto 460 D.N. MacKenzie vi CONTENTS 27 Uralic Languages 477 Robert Austerlitz 28 Hungarian 484 Daniel Abondolo 29 Finnish 497 Michael Branch 30 Turkish and the Turkic Languages 519 Jaklin Kornﬁlt 31 Afroasiatic Languages 545 Robert Hetzron 32 Semitic Languages 551 Robert Hetzron and Alan S. Kaye 33 Arabic 560 Alan S. Kaye 34 Hebrew 578 Robert Hetzron and Alan S. Kaye 35 Amharic 594 Grover Hudson 36 Hausa and the Chadic Languages 618 Paul Newman 37 Tamil and the Dravidian Languages 635 Sanford B. Steever 38 Tai Languages 653 David Strecker 39 Thai 660 Thomas John Hudak 40 Vietnamese 677 Ðình-Hoà Nguyễn vii CONTENTS 41 Sino-Tibetan Languages 693 Scott DeLancey 42 Chinese 703 Charles N. Li and Sandra A. Thompson 43 Burmese 724 Julian K. Wheatley 44 Japanese 741 Masayoshi Shibatani 45 Korean 765 Nam-Kil Kim 46 Austronesian Languages 781 Ross Clark 47 Malay-Indonesian 791 Uri Tadmor 48 Javanese 819 Michael P. Oakes 49 Tagalog 833 Paul Schachter and Lawrence A. Reid 50 Niger-Kordofanian Languages 857 Douglas Pulleyblank 51 Yoruba 866 Douglas Pulleyblank and O.lanike. O.la Orie 52 Swahili and the Bantu Languages 883 Benji Wald Language index 903 viii Contributors Daniel Abondolo Scott DeLancey University of London University of Oregon Robert Austerlitz Edward Finegan Columbia University, University of Southern California deceased John N. Green Philip Baldi University of Bradford Pennsylvania State University Einar Haugen Michael Branch Harvard University, deceased University of London John A. Hawkins Wayles Browne University of California Davis; Cornell University University of Cambridge George Cardona Robert Hetzron University of Pennsylvania University of California Santa Barbara, deceased Ross Clark University of Auckland Thomas John Hudak Arizona State University R.G.G. Coleman University of Cambridge, deceased Grover Hudson Michigan State University Bernard Comrie Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Brian D. Joseph Anthropology and University of Ohio State University California Santa Barbara Yamuna Kachru Greville Corbett University of Illinois at University of Surrey Urbana-Champaign ix

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