3005, 2013

Open-access book on the Eblaite language

By Mary Fisk|May 30, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Linguistics|0 comments

SOAS Library has just ordered Maria Tonietti’s new monograph Aspetti del sistema preposizionale dell’eblaita (which looks at prepositions in the Eblaite language through the medium of the Chancery and Ritual Texts from the Ebla Archives) However, the publishers have also made  the book available on open-access .Click on the following link to view or download the text: http://edizionicf.unive.it/index.php/Ant/article/view/477/243 Clay tablet from the Ebla Archives Image from: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ebla_clay_tablet.jpg  

1912, 2012

Linguistics – June to November 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 19, 2012|Linguistics|0 comments

e-journals Pragmatics and Society Volume 1(2010) onwards. System Volume 26(1998) onwards. Books Parametric variation : null subjects in minimalist theory / Theresa Biberauer … [et al.]. [Available as an e-book from Cambridge Books Online] The biolinguistic enterprise : new perspectives on the evolution and nature of the human language faculty / edited by Anna Maria Di Sciullo and Cedric Boeckx. The limits of syntactic variation / edited by Theresa Biberauer. Language, Saussure,

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2908, 2012

Linguistics – August 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 29, 2012|Linguistics|0 comments

Applied cultural linguistics : implications for second language learning and intercultural communication; [… theme session … which was part of the 8th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference held at the University of Logroño, La Rioja, Spain, July 20 – 25, 2003] / ed. by Farzad Sharifian … The anthropology of language : an introduction to linguistic anthropology / Harriet Joseph Ottenheimer. 3rd Edition. The Blackwell guide to research methods in bilingualism

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1608, 2012

South Asia – June to August 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 16, 2012|South Asia|0 comments

Indian and Persian prosody and recitation / Hiroko Nagasaki ; English editing by Ronald I. Kim. Partition of India : why 1947? / edited by Kaushik Roy. Beyond crisis : re-evaluating Pakistan / editor, Naveeda Khan.

0608, 2012

Korea – July 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 6, 2012|Korea|0 comments

Divided nations and transitional justice : what Germany, Japan and South Korea can teach the world / edited by Sang Jin-Han : with contributions from Kim Dae-jung and Richard von Weizsäcker Social forces and states : poverty and distributional outcomes in South Korea, Chile, and Mexico Political systems of East Asia : China, Korea, and Japan / Louis D. Hayes Trilateralism and beyond : great power politics and the Korean

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0608, 2012

Japan – July 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 6, 2012|Japan|0 comments

Public opinion, propaganda, ideology : theories on the press and its social function in interwar Japan, 1918-1937 / by Fabian Schäfer Japanese religions / edited by Lucia Dolce Celebrity gods : new religions, media, and authority in occupied Japan / Benjamin Dorman Pop culture and the everyday in Japan : sociological perspectives / edited by Katsuya Minamida and Izumi Tsuji translated by Leonie R. Stickland Understanding Japanese society / Joy

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1806, 2012

Linguistics – May 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 18, 2012|Linguistics|0 comments

Language mixing and code-switching in writing : approaches to mixed-language written discourse / edited by Mark Sebba, Shahrzad Mahootian, Carla Jonsson. Code-switching in conversation : language, interaction and identity / edited by Peter Auer. Language change in contact languages : grammatical and prosodic considerations / edited by J. Clancy Clements, Shelome Gooden. A grammar of Comanche / Jean Ormsbee Charney. A grammar of Crow = Apsáalooke Aliláau / Randolph Graczyk.

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2305, 2012

Linguistics – Jan to May 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 23, 2012|Linguistics|0 comments

Books Eish, but is it English? : celebrating the South African variety / Rajend Mesthrie with Jeanne Hromnik. Paradigm shift in language planning and policy : game-theoretic solutions / by Ettien Koffi. Theories of case / Miriam Butt. Prototypical transitivity / Åshild Næss. Differential subject marking / ed. by Helen de Hoop and Peter de Swart. Can these bones live? : translation, survival, and cultural memory / Bella Brodzki. Varieties

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3004, 2012

Linguistics – April 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 30, 2012|Linguistics|0 comments

Meaning and relevance / Deirdre Wilson and Dan Sperber. Middle Arabic and mixed Arabic : diachrony and synchrony / edited by Liesbeth Zack and Arie Schippers.  Linguistic universals and language variation / edited by Peter Siemund. Language : the cultural tool / Daniel Everett.  [a.k.a “Cognitive fire” possibly US title] Minority languages in the linguistic landscape / ed. by Durk Gorter, Heiko F. Marten and Luk Van Mensel. Reciprocals and

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3004, 2012

Korea – April 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 30, 2012|Korea|0 comments

Women and Confucianism in Chosŏn Korea : new perspectives / edited by Youngmin Kim and Michael J. Pettid. IT development in Korea : a broadband nirvana? / Kwang-Suk Lee. The quest for statehood : Korean immigrant nationalism and U.S. sovereignty, 1905-1945 / Richard S. Kim. Militants or partisans : labor unions and democratic politics in Korea and Taiwan / Yoonkyung Lee. Korean unification and the positions and roles of the

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