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Comparative Arawakan histories rethinking language family and culture area in Amazonia /

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Inside dazzling mountains Southwest native verbal arts /

Table of Contents: “…Language isolates -- pt. 2. Yuman language family -- pt. 3. Nad�ine (Apachean) language family -- pt. 4. …”
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Comparative semitic linguistics a manual / by Bennett, Patrick R.

Table of Contents: “…A general introduction to the semitic language family -- pt. 3. An outline of comparative linguistics -- pt. 4. …”
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Etymological dictionary of the Hittite inherited lexicon by Kloekhorst, Alwin

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Abbreviations and symbols -- General introduction -- Aim of this work -- The study of Hittite -- Dating of texts -- Methods of transcription --Anatolian language family -- The place of the Anatolian branch within PIE -- Towards a Hittite historical grammar -- Historical phonology -- Proto-Indo-European phoneme inventory -- Proto-Anatolian phoneme inventory -- Hittite phoneme inventory -- Cuneiform script -- Stops -- Glottal stop -- Affricate -- Fricatives -- Resonants -- Syllabic resonants -- Semi-vowels -- Vowels -- Plene spelling -- Ambiguity --Plene spelling of E and I -- The signs U and U -- Word-initially before vowels -- Word-initially before --Consonants -- Word-internally between consonant and vowel -- Word-internally between vowels -- Word-internally between vowel and consonant -- Word-internally between consonants -- overview of interconsonantal reflexes -- Word-finally after --Consonants -- Word-finally after vowels -- Conclusions -- Regarding U and U -- Epenthetic vowels -- Overview of the Hittite phoneme -- Inventory -- Changes from PIE to Hittite -- Lenition -- Fortition -- Stops.…”
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Origins and migrations in the extended eastern Himalayas

Table of Contents: “…Post -- Glimpses of the Ethnolinguistic Prehistory of Northeastern India / George van Driem -- Origin and Migration Myths in the Rhetoric of Naga Independence and Collective Identity / Marion Wettstein -- Oral Histories and the "Origins" of Current Peoples : Dynamic Ethnogenesis, with Remarks upon the Limitations of Language-Family Subgrouping / F.K.L. Chit Hlaing -- Cords and Connections : Ritual and Spatial Integration in the Jinghpaw Cultural Zone / Mandy Sadan -- Origin and Return : Genesis and the Souls of the Dead in Naxi Myth and Ritual / Charles F. …”
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Theoretical analyses on Romance languages selected papers from the 26th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL XXVI), Mexico City, 28-30 March 1996 /

Table of Contents: “…Liceras, Biana Laguardia, Zara Fernindez, -- Raquel Fernandez & Lourdes Diaz -- Licensing and identification of null categories in Spanish -- non-native grammars263 -- Fernando Martinez-Gil -- On the spelling distinction b vs. u/v and the status of -- spirantization in Old Spanish283 -- Francisco Ocampo -- PPs without Ps in spoken Rioplatense Spanish317 -- Francisco Ord6iez -- The inversion construction in interrogatives in Spanish -- and Catalan329 -- Sylvia Zetterstrand -- Scalar effects in Italian metaphony351 -- Index of Authors367 -- Index of Terms & Concepts373 -- Index of Languages & Language Families378.…”
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The languages of East and Southeast Asia an introduction / by Goddard, Cliff

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