"Designed for students with no prior experience in linguistics, this is an engaging guide to the rich variety and typology of world languages. This fourth edition has been revised with new problem sets, an updated glossary and index, and new sections, including one on the languages of the Caribbean"--
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Prologue; 1. Introduction; 2. Languages of Europe; 3. Languages of Iran and South Asia; 4. Languages of Northern Eurasia; 5. Languages of the Caucasus; 6. Languages of the greater Middle East; 7. Languages of sub-Saharan Africa; 8. Languages of eastern Asia; 9. Languages of the Pacific; 10. Aboriginal languages of New Guinea and Australia; 11. Indigenous languages of Canada and the US; 12. Indigenous languages of Latin America; Epilogue; Glossary; Bibliography; Index of Languages; Index of Terms.