Article: The Structure of Kiranti Languages: Comparative Grammar and Texts.(Book review)

Article: A grammar of Jero; with a historical comparative study of the ...
Reference & Research Book News;  November 1, 2005 ;     517 words ...9004145052 A grammar of Jero; with a historical comparative study of the Kiranti languages. Opgenort, Jean Robert. Brill Academic Publishers 2005 404 pages $142.00 Hardcover Brill's Tibetan studies library; v ...

Article: Semitic Languages: Outline of a Comparative Grammar
Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society;  September 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Semitic Languages: Outline of a Comparative Grammar. By Edward Lipinski. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta ... e.g., S. Moscati's An Introduction to the Comparative Grammar of the Semitic Languages [1980]) will be amazed ...

Article: A comparative grammar of British English dialects; ...
Reference & Research Book News;  November 1, 2005 ;     528 words ...3110182998 A comparative grammar of British English dialects; agreement, gender, relative clauses. Ed. by by Bernd Kortmann et al. Mouton de Gruyter 2005 ...

Article: Ethnobotanical notes on Thangmi plant names and their medicinal ...
Contributions to Nepalese Studies;  January 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... language is not the substance of this article, it may interest readers to know that Thangmi shows a certain affinity with the Kiranti languages spoken in eastern Nepal, particularly with regard to the complex and pronominalised verbal agreement system (see Turin ...

Article: A man on the cusp: Sir William Jones's "philology" and "oriental ...
Texas Studies in Literature and Language;  June 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... modern philology usually begins with comparative grammar, a German school of philology which ... nineteenth century. The term "comparative grammar" (vergleichende Grammatik) was ... monumental book of the same title. (4) Comparative grammar differed from the philology of the ...

Article: Blake's Review of "Hebrew Grammar: A New Approach," by A. Sperber
Journal of Biblical Literature;  April 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... languages, "linguistic science and comparative grammar." 4. Blake questions Sperber ... errors. 3. Concerning the use of comparative grammar and cognate languages, it is the ... the text of the Hebrew Bible. A comparative grammar can then be based upon this and ...

Dictionary definition: comparative
The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar;      429 words ... ... discipline made great advances in the nineteenth century. Related terms are comparative grammar , ( comparative ) philology , and historical linguistics . Comparative grammar and comparative linguistics can also refer to the study and comparison ...