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Format: 1 online resource (319 p.)

ISBN: 9781463244965 , 9783111178042

Series Statement: Harvard Oriental Series - Opera Minora ; 14

Content: This book, The Origin of Language: Tracing the Evolution of the Mother Tongue, originally published in 1994 by John Wiley & Sons, was written in a more popular style, accessible to an educated general audience, than the more scholarly and academic tome of a similar title, On the Origin of Languages: Studies in Linguistic Taxonomy, published the same year. In The Origin of Language Ruhlen laid out the principles of linguistic genetic classification, i.e., classifying languages into families according to common origins rather than typological features. Ruhlen showed how simple this can be, especially for languages that have diverged for a few millennia, by juxtaposing short lists of basic (non-cultural) words like eye, fire, and tongue. He also showed that the same methods can be used to postulate older and deeper families, often called "macro-families" or "macrophyla," by comparing reconstructed forms from lower-level families. Such deeper families (e.g., Nostratic, Dene-Caucasian, Nilo-Saharan, Austric) are generally more controversial than lower-level families, but Ruhlen did not shy from discussing them if he thought the evidence supported them. Ruhlen was also interested in other fields of anthropology, such as archaeology and human genetics, and brought these fields into play.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Preface 2010 -- , Preface 1994 -- , Contents -- , Prologue: What Do We Mean by the Origin of Language? -- , 1 Language and History: Voices from the Past -- , 2 Language Families: What is Known -- , 3 Controversy: What is Debated -- , 4 Native Americans: Language in the New World -- , 5 The Origin of Language: Are There Global Cognates? -- , 6 A Window on the World: What Has Been Resolved -- , 7 Genes: Biology and Language -- , 8 The Emerging Synthesis: On the Origin of Modern Humans -- , Epilogue: Reconstruction, Sound Correspondences, and Homelands -- , An Annotated Bibliography -- , Appendices -- , Index , Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English.

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DOI: 10.31826/9781463244965

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Format: 1 online resource (227 p.)

ISBN: 9781463244903 , 9783111178042

Series Statement: Gorgias Handbooks ; 57

Content: The purpose of this modest volume is to aid beginning students of Syriac in acquiring facility in reading the language. It contains thirty stories taken from the Book of Entertaining Stories of Gregory Bar ʿEbrāyā (1226-1286 AD). Each story includes an analysis of its grammar and vocabulary. There is also a discussion of cognates to the Syriac vocabulary in Arabic and Hebrew.

Note: Frontmatter -- , PREFACE -- , TABLE OF CONTENTS -- , INTRODUCTION -- , Part 1 -- , Text 1 Wisdom from the mouth of Socrates -- , Text 2 The Persian ruler Khusraw bad-mouths the Kurds -- , Text 3 A lunatic body-shames a noble -- , Text 4 Men make all the rules -- , Text 5 A good day for a thief -- , Review Lesson One -- , Part 2 -- , Text 6 Another thief -- , Text 7 Words of wisdom from a teacher -- , Text 8 A philosopher makes a profound statement -- , Text 9 Never boast about killing a prophet -- , Text 10 Another philosopher makes a sexist comment -- , Review Lesson Two -- , Part 3 -- , Text 11 Frying up some dung -- , Text 12 A goat taunts a wolf -- , Text 13 No more teachers, no more books -- , Text 14 Saint Ammon rejects marriage -- , Text 15 A Byzantine king threatens an Arab king -- , Review Lesson Three -- , Part 4 -- , Text 16 Be careful what you advise the king -- , Text 17 How many lunatics are there in Emesa? -- , Text 18 Can a child be born to a 70-year-old man? -- , Text 19 The King of Farters gives a boast -- , Text 20 Don't make fun of a woman with disheveled hair -- , Review Lesson Four -- , Part 5 -- , Text 21 Be careful who you throw stones at -- , Text 22 A traveler narrates a coincidence -- , Text 23 A royal councilor interprets a dream wisely -- , Text 24 Short people have rights, too -- , Text 25 Weavers have a bad press -- , Review Lesson Five -- , Part 6 -- , Text 26 An Abbess struggles against fornication -- , Text 27 A merchant travels to China -- , Text 28 When your number is up, your number is up -- , Text 29 Listen carefully to your doctor -- , Text 30 Watch out for ravens! -- , TRANSLATIONS -- , VOCABULARY -- , CONCORDANCE , Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English.

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DOI: 10.31826/9781463244903

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