Hmong secret languages : themes and variations / Martha Ratliff -- Variegated tonal developments in Tibetan / Jackson T.-S. Sun -- Some case studies on linguistic variation and their implications / ...
Human languages differ widely, yet they share systematic regularities in the underlying semantic representations being expressed. How such similarities and differences arise remains unclear, in part ...
In November 2021 during its 41st Session in Paris, UNESCO Member States declared July 7th World Kiswahili Language Day. Kiswahili — also known as Swahili — is a Bantu language native to Eastern and ...
The impact of human beings on the environment and the impact of environmental and climate changes on the future of humanity are two of the most pressing challenges for our current scholarly pursuits.
He laid the foundation for sociolinguistics, and he showed that structures like class and race shaped speech as much as where someone lives. By Clay Risen William Labov, whose innovative research into ...
Preface -- Nathalie Dajko and Shana Walton -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Connie Eble -- Indigenous languages -- The Chitimacha language: a history -- Daniel W. Hieber -- Kowassaaton Ilhaalos: ...
African languages should be promoted at a national rather than provincial level. Higher education institutions should develop ...