Is there continuity between persian and caspian?

This book studies the south-central Alborz as a language transition zone. This is a mountainous area, also known as Qasran, separated from both Tehran and Mazandaran by mountain chains. There are dozens of villages in the area with vanishing dialects that show various degrees of affinity with the...

Visamapadavyakhya

Over two millennia scholars produced a huge literature of commentaries to explain how the rules of Sanskrit grammar work. Alternative schools developed, to provide easier access to the classical language and to create authoritative texts for groups with distinct religious or social identities.

Asher and -she in the book of ecclesiastes

Reading by right

This book focuses on the importance of reading for pleasure and the difference that it can make to a person’s life chances, with a focus upon how libraries and librarians help reluctant and struggling readers.

A reader of classical arabic literature

A Reader of Classical Arabic Literature is one of a very small group of resources in English for the teaching of intermediate and advanced level classical Arabic. Based on his lecture notes, the late Seeger Bonebakker designed a superb teaching text, which he then asked his UCLA colleague, Michae...

Classical books: scholarship & publishing in britain since 1800 (bics supplement 101)

The truth about confident presenting, 3rd edition

More than four dozen basic truths about successful, confident public speaking are explained in accessible, brief chapters by a master of the art.

A social history of literacy in japan

Despite the great interest in and the availability of enormous literature about education in Japan, this book is a translation of the first work written in Japanese on the history of literacy in Japan. The authors are each accomplished scholars of Japanese educational history, and each provides s...

Seeing sense

Foreword by Sir Philip Pullman, CBE, FRSL Illustrated foreword by Chris Riddell, OBEThe burgeoning field of visual literacy can be universally understood across a wide variety of cultural backgrounds, regardless of traditional literacy levels. A key tool for navigating digital devices, there is ...

Logos: rational argument in classical rhetoric (bics supplement 96)

The u.s. military in the print news media

This book analyses the history of the popular discourse in the United States concerned with the U.S. military and its engagement in foreign wars from the Spanish-American War through to the U.S. invasions of Iraqand the War on Terror.

Kuśiññe kantwo

This first-ever textbook of the Tocharian B language makes it readily accessible to a broad audience. Tocharian B, an Indo-European language spoken in the first millennium C.E. in western China, is of great importance to numerous disciplines, from Indo-European historical linguistics to the study...

Neurocomputational poetics

This book introduces a new thrilling field: Neurocomputational Poetics, the scientific ‘marriage’ between cognitive poetics, data science and neuroscience. Its goal is to uncover the secrets of verbal art reception and to explain how readers come to understand and like literary texts. For centuri...

Notes on chasta costa phonology and morphology

A preliminary analysis of this dialect of Athabascan spoken by North American tribes living in southwestern Oregon and northwestern California. The Chasta Costa formerly occupied part of the lower Rouge River valley.

Warring states papers (volume 1)

Warring States Papers seeks to apply standard philological methods to major unsolved textual problems

Language and nature

This book includes thirty contributions - twenty-nine papers and one artistic contribution - by John's colleagues, former students, and friends, on a variety of topics that represent John's versatility and many interests, including philology, history, natural history, and art.

Julius caesar

This new edition offers the intermediate/advanced Latin student everything needed to be able to read Caesar's Gallic War: complete Latin text of Books 1-5 and 6.11-24, grammatical commentary, Latin-English vocabulary, Latin grammar cross-referenced to the usage of Caesar and twelve colour maps il...

Qazzu warrai

Dedicated to Kazuhiko Yoshida, the distinguished scholar of Anatolian and Indo-European linguistics, this volume contains contributions to the linguistic study of Greek, Vedic Sanskrit, Avestan, Tocharian, Old Persian, Armenian, Latin, Icelandic, with papers on the Anatolian languages themselves....

Signless signification in ancient india and beyond

The collection of interdisciplinary essays in this book examines the speculative, linguistic, literary and artistic theories on signless ways of expressing meanings in the context of traditional Indian language and culture. 

The damascus psalm fragment

The Damascus Palm Fragment investigates Arabic's transformative historical phase, the passage from the pre-Islamic to the Islamic period, through a new approach. It presents a scenario for the emergence of standard Classical Arabic as the literary language of the late eighth century and beyond. 

Ex anatolia lux

Nearly forty internationally recognized researchers celebrate the work of the famous Anatolianist and Indo-Europeanist H. Craig Melchert. The topics range widely, covering not only the grammar and lexicon of Anatolian languages but also Tocharian, Latin, Phrygian, and many others. Contributions i...

Seen not heard

Contributors from the fields of Egyptology, Sinology, Hittitology, and Assyriology, together with Mesoamericanists, art historians and a sign language specialist, interrogate writing as a medium that is not simply a handmaiden to oral and aural exchange but a communication system that is richly l...

Vina diem celebrent

Scholars from across the world celebrate the work of Brent Vine. Contributions include numerous studies of the Classical languages and texts, and work on more far-flung corners of the family, including Lithuanian, Lydian, Gothic and Tocharian. Contributions in English, German and French.

Britannia latina: latin in the culture of great britain from the middle ages to the twentieth century.

Studies in semitic and afroasiatic linguistics presented to gene b gragg

Professor Gene B Gragg's intellectual curiosity and rigorous linguistic method served as a bridge between the often disparate fields of Semitic philology and linguistics, between the various sub-disciplines that study the ancient Near East, and more. Essays presented at a symposium at the Orienta...

Munus amicitiae

Over thirty internationally recognized scholars contribute studies in honour of noted Anatolianist and Indo-Europeanist Norbert Oettinger. Munus Amicitiae ranges widely, with essays treating diverse topics in Anatolian linguistics, general Indo-European, Germanic, Indic, Celtic, and even Aegean a...

Essays on three iranian language groups

This volume studies three West Iranian language groups that are either undefined or have been scantly analysed. Published by American Oriental Society in association with Lockwood Press

Grammatica et verba--glamor and verve

The contributions in this collection of essays in honour of the distinguished linguist Hans Henrich Hock include studies on the structure of Andamanese, agreement in Tibeto-Burman, the pre-Indo-European linguistic landscape of Europe, nasals in Sanskrit, Albanian dialectology, and the syntax of E...

Literacy in the persianate world

Traces Persian's rich written history from the 6th century B.C.. Covering script transformations and a vast geographical reach from the Balkans to Central China, chapters explore key stages, including the Arab-Islamic conquest and British imperial adoption. Comparative analyses with Chinese and L...

Verba docenti

This festschrift, in honour of the renowned Indo-Europeanist Jay Jasanoff, presents studies on topics ranging from Indo-European verbal morphology to Australian paleo linguistics. It contains contributions by such distinguished colleagues as Ives Goddard, Martin Peters, Georges-Jean Pinault, P. O...

Iberia protohistory of the far west of europe

An innovative view of the last six millennia BCE in the Iberian Peninsula, the last land in Eurasia and the Far West of the Old World. Divided into three parts: the Neolithic and Chalcolithic; the Bronze Age on Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts; the Iron Age as an affirmation of the urban life th...

Spellbound

Asserting that written language is on the verge of its greatest change since the advent of the printing press, visual artist Craig McDaniel and art historian Jean Robertson bring us Spellbound – a collection of heavily illustrated essays that interrogate assumptions about language and typography....

Multi nominis grammaticus

Thirty internationally recognized scholars celebrate the work of the famous Indo-Europeanist Alan J. Nussbaum. The topics range from Indo-European nominal morphology, especially in the Classical languages, to the historical grammars of Tocharian, the stylistics of the Rigveda and Aristophanean ph...

Farnah

Over thirty specialists in Indo-European linguistics have contributed this elegant volume in honour of Professor Sasha Lubotsky of Leiden University. Farnah contains contributions from well-known scholars across the world covering topics in Tocharian, Germanic, Slavic, Indo-Iranian, and Anatolian...

Tavet tat satyam

This volume honours the Indologist and Indo-Europeanist Jared S. Klein with almost three dozen essays ranging over a wealth of Indo-Iranian and other Indo-European topics. Contributions in English and German.

Russian language studies in north america

This collection provides a comprehensive overview of Russian language research in Canada and Russia, with a focus on elements of structure, as well as on language dynamics and change.

The textual criticism of sumerian literature

Drawing from a detailed analysis of the different types of textual variants that occur in the numerous duplicates of a group of ten compositions known collectively as the Decad, this book aims to provide a much needed critical methodology for interpreting textual variation in the Sumerian literar...

Sibawayhi's principles

Sibawayhi, a non-Arab, was the first to write on Arabic grammar and the first to explain Arabic grammar from a non-Arab perspective.  Both Sibawayhi and his teacher al-Farahidi made the earliest and most significant formal recording of the Arabic language.

Lyuke wmer ra

This collection of articles contains not only historical and synchronic linguistic studies of numerous ancient languages---especially Tocharian, Sanskrit, Greek, and Uyghur---but also editions of several recently discovered texts from Central Asia that contribute to the burgeoning fields of Buddh...

Systematic searching

In resource poor, cost saving times, this book advises information professionals on how to search more efficiently.

The networked librarian

Effective communication is key for school librarians to build strong and successful teams. This book considers how school librarians can build great teams whether you are a solo librarian or a line manager. Including multiple examples of best practice, all underpinned by robust theory and research.

Cilip guidelines for secondary school libraries

This fully updated version of the CILIP-endorsed guidelines for secondary school libraries addresses the changing schools’ landscape and impact of technological changes of recent years.

Library services from birth to five

Practical guidance on setting up and running pre-school library services and understanding about early language and literacy development.

Reader development in practice

Who is the reader? How do we reach them, and why? To what extent are readers determining what libraries offer? How has that changed since the birth of reader development? This collection covers various aspects of literature in relation to readership, exploring the chain of events connecting autho...

Delivering the best start

Drawing on the authors' research, this book covers: the background and context of early years literacy; the role of the early years professional, interdisciplinary team work, and how to involve parents and carers; buildings and space; managing resources and collection development; planning projec...

Know it all, find it fast for youth librarians and teachers

Suitable for those working with children and young people in schools, public libraries and at home, this title includes a general introduction covering useful information about education and the curriculum, and topics covering school subjects from science and maths to reading and literacy.

The innovative school librarian

This book takes a strategic approach to the leadership of school libraries, examining notions of professionalism, their effect on identity and models of library practice.

Playing games in the school library

'Required reading for anyone with an interest in school libraries or any facet of education. Everyone should have a copy of this wonderful book.'- Christopher Evans

School libraries supporting literacy and wellbeing

Drawing on recent research, this book explores the connection between libraries, literacy, reading engagement and wellbeing, providing powerful advocacy support for school library professionals seeking to illustrate the role they play in supporting students’ literacy learning and wellbeing.