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  • Chinese Characters across Asia

    How the Chinese Script Came to Write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese

    by Zev Handel ...
    A fascinating story of writing across cultures and timeWhile other ancient nonalphabetic scripts—Sumerian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and Mayan hieroglyphs—are long extinct, Chinese characters, invented over three thousand years ago, are today used by well over a billion people to write Chinese and Japanese. In medieval East Asia, the written Classical Chinese language knit the region ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • An Introduction to Chinese Linguistics

    by Chan Lü, Zev Handel ...
    Grounded in descriptive linguistics, this textbook introduces the basics of the major subfields of linguistics, as well as the Chinese writing system, for students with no prior linguistic training. It presents the Chinese language from the perspective of both modern linguistics and its longstanding philological legacy, as well as providing historical and sociolinguistic context. Chapters cover ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

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  • The Korean Language

    Structure, Use and Context

    by Jae Jung Song ...
    Suitable for students of all levels, this book provides a general description of the Korean language by highlighting important structural aspects whilst keeping technical details to a minimum. By examining the Korean language in its geographical, historical, social and cultural context the reader is able to gain a good understanding of its speakers and the environment in which it is used. The book ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Basic Mandarin Chinese - Reading & Writing Textbook

    An Introduction to Written Chinese for Beginners (DVD Included)

    by Cornelius C. Kubler ...
    A complete beginning-level course for written Mandarin Chinese designed to teach you to read and write Mandarin quickly and efficiently!The Basic Mandarin Chinese series offers a complete introductory course superior to any other language product for Chinese. These books teach spoken and written Chinese separately, allowing you to focus on the area most important to you, and to learn the spoken ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Introducing Linguistics

    Theoretical and Applied Approaches

    Edited by Joyce Bruhn de Garavito, John W. Schwieter ...
    Everything we do involves language. Assuming no prior knowledge, this book offers students a contemporary introduction to the study of language. Each thought-provoking chapter is accessible to readers from a variety of fields, and is helpfully organized across six parts: sound; structure and meaning; language typologies and change; language and social aspects; language acquisition; and language, ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Cantonese: A Comprehensive Grammar

    by Stephen Matthews, Virginia Yip ...
    Series series Routledge Comprehensive Grammars
    Cantonese: A Comprehensive Grammar is a complete reference guide to Cantonese as spoken by native speakers in Hong Kong. It presents a fresh and accessible description of the language, concentrating on the real patterns of use in current Cantonese. This makes it the ideal reference source for all learners and users of Cantonese, irrespective of level, in schools, colleges, universities and adult ... Read more

    $120.99 USD

  • Basic Written Chinese

    Move From Complete Beginner Level to Basic Proficiency (Downloadable Audio Included)

    by Cornelius C. Kubler ...
    This is a beginning-level course in written Chinese that employs a revolutionary new method designed to have you quickly reading and writing simple, connected Chinese sentences.Along with its sister book Basic Spoken Chinese and their accompanying workbooks, Basic Written Chinese offers a complete introductory course to the written Chinese language. As a native English speaker, working hard to ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Reading and Writing Korean

    A Beginner's Guide to the Hangeul Writing System - A Workbook for Self-Study (Free Online Audio and Printable Flash Cards)

    by Jieun Kiaer, Derek Driggs ...
    The easy way to learn the Korean Hangeul writing system!Fans of K-Pop and Korean dramas as well as beginning students of Korean will love this handy guide to the Korean Hangeul alphabet. Designed for both self-study students and use in a classroom, no prior knowledge of Korean is needed. With this workbook, you'll quickly learn to read, write and pronounce the letters and hundreds of useful Korean ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Understanding Morphology

    by Martin Haspelmath, Andrea Sims ...
    Series series Understanding Language
    This new edition of Understanding Morphology has been fully revised in line with the latest research. It now includes 'big picture' questions to highlight central themes in morphology, as well as research exercises for each chapter.Understanding Morphology presents an introduction to the study of word structure that starts at the very beginning. Assuming no knowledge of the field of morphology on ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Functional Structure(s), Form and Interpretation

    Perspectives from East Asian Languages

    Edited by Andrew Simpson, Audrey-Li Yen-hui ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Asian Linguistics
    The issue of how interpretation results from the form and type of syntactic structures present in language is one which is central and hotly debated in both theoretical and descriptive linguistics. This volume brings together a series of eleven new cutting-edge essays by leading experts in East Asian languages which shows how the study of formal structures and functional morphemes in Chinese, ... Read more

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  • Basic Cantonese

    A Grammar and Workbook

    by Virginia Yip, Stephen Matthews ...
    Series series Routledge Grammar Workbooks
    Basic Cantonese introduces the essentials of Cantonese grammar in a straightforward and systematic way.Each of the 28 units deals with a grammatical topic and provides associated exercises, designed to put grammar into a communicative context. Special attention is paid to topics which differ from English and European language structures.This new edition features:• clear, accessible format• lively ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Japanese Linguistics

    Edited by Yoko Hasegawa ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
    The linguistic study of Japanese, with its rich syntactic and phonological structure, complex writing system, and diverse sociohistorical context, is a rapidly growing research area. This book, designed to serve as a concise reference for researchers interested in the Japanese language and in typological studies of language in general, explores diverse characteristics of Japanese that are ... Read more

    $46.79 USD