General Language Reference

Based on Comrie's much-praised The World's Major Languages, this is the first comprehensive guide in paperback to descibe in detail the language families of Eastern Europe, and includes an introduction which surveys the field...

Based on the much-praised The World's Major Languages, this is the first comprehensive guide in paperback to describe the development, grammar sound and writing system, and sociological factors of the major language families in these areas...

Part of a linguistic series covering all major world languages, this volume contains essays that describe the languages of South Asia, the Middle East and Africa, including Sanskrit, Persian, Hindi-Urdu, Arabic, Hebrew, Tamil, Swahili and Bantu, Yoruba and the Semitic languages...

Based on Bernard Comrie's The World's Major Languages, this is a key guide to one of the major language families. The areas covered include Germanic languages, English, and Romance languages...

The Routledge Course in Japanese Translation brings together for the first time material dedicated to the theory and practice of translation to and from Japanese...

The Routledge Course in Japanese Translation brings together for the first time material dedicated to the theory and practice of translation to and from Japanese...

The Routledge Dictionary of Cultural References in Modern French reveals the hidden cultural dimension of contemporary French, as used in the press, going beyond the limited and purely lexical approach of the traditional bilingual dictionary...

An invaluable resource for linguists, learners and users of Macedonia. This is the most definitive dictionary of the language currently available, containing over 50,000 headwords...

The second edition includes over 1500 new entries, as well as more information on first known usages and more ways to find entries.Expressions from Scotland, North America and Australia and other parts of the English-speaking world are included...