Book Read Free

Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World

Page 75

by Nicholas Ostler


  Norman, Jerry (1988), Chinese, Cambridge University Press.

  Oded, Bustenay (1979), Mass Deportation and Deportees in the Neo-Assyrian Empire, Wiesbaden: Dr Ludwig Reichert Verlag.

  Oliveira Marques, A. H. de (1912), History of Portugal—volume I: from Lusitania to Empire, New York: Columbia University Press.

  Ostler, Nicholas (ed.) (1999), Endangered Languages and Education, Bath: Foundation for Endangered Languages.

  Ostler, Nicholas (2004), ‘The Social Roots of Missionary Linguistics’, in Hovdhaugen and Zwartjes (eds), Proceedings of the First International Conference on Missionary Linguistics, Oslo, 13-16 March 2003, pp. 33-46.

  Packard, Jerome L. (ed.) (1998), New Approaches to Chinese Word Formation, Berlin: De Gruyter.

  Parpola, Simo (1999), ‘Assyrians after Assyria’, Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies xiii(2).

  Pedersen, Holger (1972), The Discovery of Language (5th edn), Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

  Pennycook, A. (1994), The Cultural Politics of English as an International Language, Harlow: Longman.

  Peremans, Willy (1964), ‘Über die Zweisprachigkeit im Ptolemäischen Ägypten’, in Studien zur Papyrologie und antiken Wirtschaftsgeschichte. Friedrich Oertel zum achtigsten Geburtstag gewidmet, Bonn, pp. 49-60.

  Pertusi, A. (1952), Constantine Porphyrogenitus: de thematibus, Vatican.

  Petro, Pamela (1997), Travels in an Old Tongue, London: HarperCollins Flamingo.

  Phillipson, Robert (1992), Linguistic Imperialism, Oxford University Press.

  Picoche, Jacqueline and Christiane Marchello-Nizia (1989), Histoire de la langue française, Paris: Nathan.

  Planhol, Xavier de (1968), Les fondements géographiques de l’histoire de l’Islam, Paris: Flammarion.

  Polier, Antoine-Louis Henri (2001), A European Experience of the Mughal Orient: the I’jāzi Arsalānī (Persian Letters, 1773-1779) (trans. Muzaffar Alam and Seema Alavi), New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

  Polotsky, Hans Jacob (1971), ‘Aramäisch prš und das “Huzvaresch"’, in E. Y. Kutscher (ed.), Collected Papers, Jerusalem: Magna Press, Hebrew University, pp. 631-43.

  Price, Glanville (ed.) (2000), Languages in Britain and Ireland, Oxford: Blackwell.

  Pritchard, James B. (ed.) (1969), Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament (3rd edn with supplement), Princeton University Press.

  Prokosch, E. (1938), A Comparative Germanic Grammar, Baltimore, MD: Linguistic Society of America.

  Pym, Dora and Nancy Silver (1952), Alive on Men’s Lips, Slough: Centaur.

  Quilis, Antonio (1992), La lengua espaõola en cuatro mundos, Madrid : Editorial Mapfre.

  Ramsey, S. Robert (1987), The Languages of China, Princeton University Press.

  Rangarajan, L. N. (ed. and trans.) (1992), Kautilya: the Arthashastra, New Delhi: Penguin, India.

  Reynolds, L. D. and N. G. Wilson (1968), Scribes and Scholars, Oxford University Press.

  Ricard, Robert (1933), The Spiritual Conquest of Mexico (trans. Lesley Bird Simpson, 1966), Berkeley: University of California Press.

  Robinson, F. N. (ed.) (1957), The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin.

  Rosenblat, Angel (1964), ‘La Hispanización de América: el castellano y las lenguas indígenas desde 1492’, in Presente y futuro de la lengua espanola : Actas de la Asamblea de Filología del I Congreso de Instituciones Hispánicas, Madrid, pp. 189-216.

  Roux, Georges (1992), Ancient Iraq (3rd edn), Harmondsworth: Penguin.

  Roy, Olivier (2000), The New Central Asia: the Creation of Nations, London and New York: I. B. Tauris.

  Rubin, Joan (1985), ‘The Special Relation of Guarani and Spanish in Paraguay’, in Wolfson and Manes (1985: 111-20).

  Russell, J. C. (1958), ‘Late Ancient and Medieval Population’, Philadelphia, PA: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series 48(3).

  Saeki, P. Y. (1937), The Nestorian Documents and Relics in China, Tokyo: Maruzen.

  Sale, Kirkpatrick (1990), The Conquest of Paradise, New York: Knopf.

  Salomon, Richard (1998), Indian Epigraphy, New York: Oxford University Press.

  Santarém, Visconde de (1958 [1841]). Memória sobre a prioridade dos descobrimentos Portugueses na Costa da África Ocidental, Paris; reissued Lisbon: Comissáo Executiva das Comemoracões do Quinto Centenário da Morte do Infante D. Henrique, 1958.

  Sawyer, John F. A. (1999), Sacred Languages and Sacred Texts, London: Routledge.

  Schlumberger, Daniel, Louis Robert and André Dupont-Sommer (1958), ‘Une bilingue gréco-araméenne d’Asoka’, Journal asiatique ccxlvi.

  Schoff, W. H. (1912), The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea: Travel and Trade in the Indian Ocean by a Merchant of the First Century, London, Bombay and Calcutta.

  Schmandt-Besserat, Denise (1997), How Writing Came About, Austin: University of Texas.

  Shaw, Stanford J. (1976), History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey, vol. 1, Cambridge University Press.

  Sherzer, Joel (1993), ‘A Richness of Voices’, in Alvin M. Josephy (ed.), America in 1492, New York: Random House, pp. 251-75.

  Silver, Shirley and Wick R. Miller (1997), American Indian Languages: Cultural and Social Contexts, Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

  Sinha, Surendra Prasad (1978), English in India, Patna: Janaki Prakashan.

  Sinor, Denis (ed.) (1990), The Cambridge History of Early Inner Asia, Cambridge University Press.

  Sircar, D. C. (1971), Studies in the Geography of Ancient and Medieval India, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass.

  Slate, Clay (2001), ‘Promoting Advanced Navajo Language Scholarship’, in Hinton and Hale (eds), The Green Book of Language Revitalization in Practice, San Diego, CA: Academic Press, pp. 389-410.

  Smith, Colin (1983), ‘Vulgar Latin in Roman Britain: epigraphic and other evidence’, in Temporini and Haase (1983: 893-948).

  Smith, Jeremy J. (2000), ‘Scots’, in Price (2000: 159-70).

  Soothill, William Edward (1910), Confucius: the Analects, Edinburgh: Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier (reissued: Dover, 1995).

  Spear, Percival (1965), A History of India, vol. 2, Harmondsworth: Penguin.

  Stephens, Susan A. and John J. Winkler (1995), Ancient Greek Novels: The Fragments, Princeton University Press.

  Strange, John (1980), ‘Caphtor/Keftiu; a new investigation’, Acta Theologica Danica 14, Leiden: E. J. Brill.

  Studer, Paul and E. G. R. Waters (1924), Historical French Reader: Medieval period, Oxford University Press.

  Sykes, Bryan (2001), The Seven Daughters of Eve, London: Bantam.

  Sznycer, Maurice (1967), Les passages puniques en transcription latine dans le ‘Poenulus’ de Plaute, Paris: C. Klincksieck.

  Sznycer, Maurice (1996), ‘Le bilinguisme en Afrique du Nord à l’époque romaine’, in Briquel-Chatonnet (1996).

  Tadmor, Hayyim (1982), ‘The Aramaization of Assyria: Aspects of the Western Impact’, in Nissen and Renger (1982: 449-70).

  Tarling, Nicholas (ed.) (1999), Cambridge History of Southeast Asia, volume 1, part 1. From early times to c.1500, Cambridge University Press.

  Tarracha Ferreira, Maria Ema (1992), Literatura dos Descobrimentos e da expansáo portuguesa, Lisbon : Biblioteca Ulisseia.

  Temporini, H. and W. Haase (eds) (1983), Aufstieg und Niedergang der Römischen Welt, 2, Berlin and New York: Principat.

  Thomason, Sarah and Terrence Kaufman (1988), Language Contact, Creolization, and Genetic Linguistics, University of California Press.

  Thomsen, Marie-Louise (1984), The Sumerian Language: an Introduction to its History and Grammatical Structure, Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag.

  Tomlin, R. S. O. (1987), ‘Was ancient British Celtic ever a written language? Two texts from Roman Bath’, Cardiff: Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies 34: 18-25.

  Torero, Alfredo (1974), El quechua y la historia social andina, Lima: Universidad Ricardo Palmá.

  Tovar, Antonio (1964), ‘Espaõol y lenguas indígenas. Algunos ejem
plos’, in Presente y futuro de la lengua espaõola: Actas de la Asamblea de Filología del I Congreso de Instituciones Hispánicas, Madrid, pp. 245-57.

  Triana y Antorveza, H. (1987), Las lenguas indígenas en la historia social del Nuevo Reino de Granada, Bogotá: Instituto Caro y Cuervo.

  Tsereteli, Mikheil (1959 [1912]), ‘Das Sumerische und das Georgische’, Paris: Revue de Kartvelologie, nos. 32-33. Original in Georgian (’Sumerian and Georgian’) in Tbilisi Collection ‘Gvirgvini’ (’Crown’).

  Tsurumi, E. Patricia (1984), ‘Colonial Education in Korea and Taiwan’, in Myers and Peattie (1984: 275-311).

  Van Leur, Jacob Cornelis (1955), Indonesian Trade and Society, The Hague: W. van Hoeve.

  Vanaya, Marta (1986), Mitos y Leyendas Guaraníes, Buenos Aires: Jamkana Libros.

  Vásquez Cuesta, Pilar and Maria Albertina Mendes da Luz (1971), Grámatica da Língua Portuguesa, Lisbon: Edições 70.

  Viõaza, Conde de la (1892), Bibliografía de Lenguas Indígenas de América, Madrid : Ediciones Atlas.

  Voutyras, E. (1994), ‘Bulletin épigraphique’, in Revue d’ Études Grecques 413.

  Wang Gungwu (1992), Community and Nation: China, Southeast Asia and Australia (2nd edn), ch. 2, ‘A Short History of the Nanyang Chinese, St Leonards’, Kensington, NSW: Asian Studies Association of Australia in association with Allen and Unwin.

  Warner, Sam L. No’eau (1999), ’Kuleana: The Right, Responsibility, and Authority of Indigenous People to Speak and Make Decisions for Themselves in Language and Cultural Revitalization’, Anthropology and Education Quarterly 30(1): 68-93.

  Weale, Michael E., Deborah A. Weiss, Rolf F. Jager, Neil Bradman and Mark G. Thomas (2002), ‘Y chromosome evidence for Anglo-Saxon mass migration’, Molecular Biology & Evolution 19(7): 1008-21.

  Welling, George M. (2001), The United States of America and the Netherlands, University of Groningen: Dept Alfa-informatica, .

  Whitelock, Dorothy (1967), Sweet’s Anglo-Saxon Reader, Oxford University Press.

  Whitfield, Susan (1999), Life along the Silk Road, London: John Murray.

  Wiesehöfer, Josef (2001), Ancient Persia, London: I. B. Tauris.

  Wilkinson, Endymion (2000), Chinese History: a Manual Revised and Enlarged, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center.

  Williams, Roger (1643), A Key into the Language of America, London: Gregory Dexter.

  Woodcock, George (1966), The Greeks in India, London: Faber.

  Wolfson, Nessa and Joan Manes (1985), Language of Inequality, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.

  World Almanac and Book of Facts (1995), Mahwah, NJ: Funk & Wagnalls.

  Wright, John W. (ed.) (2000, 2001), New York Times Almanac, Harmondsworth: Penguin.

  Wright, Roger (1982), Late Latin and Early Romance in Spain and Carolingian France, Liverpool: Francis Cairns.

  Young, G. M. (ed.) (1957), Macaulay, Prose and Poetry, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

  Yule, Henry and Arthur Burnell (1986 [1903]), Hobson-Jobson: a glossary of colloquial Anglo-Indian words and phrases, New Delhi: Rupa & Co.

  INDEX

  The pagination of this electronic edition does not match the edition from which it was created. To locate a specific passage, please use the search feature of your e-book reader.

  Language, family and dialect names are marked in bold. Literary titles are marked with italics, with the author’s name in parentheses.

  A description of Ceylon (Cordiner) 389

  A Key into the Language of America (Williams) 481, 484

  Aachen 316-317

  ’Abd el Malik, Caliph 97

  ’Abdul Qasim ‘Unsuri, Persian poet 110

  Abu Nawas, Persian poet 98

  Abu Zayd of Siraf 103n

  Académie Française 409

  Acadians 414n

  Acehnese 208

  Achaean dialect of Greek 236

  Achaeans 240

  Achaemenids, ruling house of the Persian empire 98

  Aché Pyvé 361

  Acosta, Joseph de, Spanish historian 337

  Adad-niršri, king of Assyria 64

  Adams, Will, British samurai 388

  Advancement of Learning (Bacon) 328

  Aegean 264, 267

  Aeolic dialect of Greek 236, 237n

  Afghanistan 39, 4748, 85, 96, 99, 101, 108, 212, 245, 257, 269, 536

  Africa 12, 45, 111, 391, 527

  demographics 530

  and English 507

  French empire 417-419, 444, 490

  German colonies 448

  second-language speakers 515

  Afrikaans 399, 444, 507

  Afro-Asiatic languages 36, 90, 97, 102, 122, 554

  Agbatana 43

  Aguilar, Jerónimo de, Spanish interpreter 342

  Ahiqar, Aramaean sage 38, 83

  Ahiram, king of Byblos 72

  Akhetaten 62

  Akkadian

  Amama correspondence 62, 128

  and Assyria 13, 21, 79, 129

  as classical language 68

  as model of literacy 58-68, 512

  bilingualism with Sumerian 51, 53-57, 111, 163

  influence 80, 517

  lingua franca 61-62, 65, 67-68, 128-129

  literature 30-33

  origin of name 60

  range of language 59

  related to Arabic 93, 110, 112

  Semitic language 35, 35n, 36-37, 40-44

  written form 11n, 33, 46, 49-50, 512

  see also writing, cuneiform

  Akhenaten, Pharaoh 125-126

  Al-Jahiz 98

  Al-Muqaddasi, Arab geographer 98

  Alalah 62

  Alans 305, 307, 308, 425

  Alcuin, English scholar 316-318, 328

  Aleksandr I, Tsar 431, 433, 438

  Aleksey, Tsar 431

  Aleppo 41

  Alexander the Great 12, 30, 48, 57, 75-76, 85-86, 131, 165, 191, 219, 239, 243-245, 248, 250, 257, 276, 278

  Alexander VI, Pope 336, 365

  Alexander’s Campaign (Arrian) 272

  Alexandria in Egypt 48, 86, 130, 131, 247-249, 259

  Alexandria of the Arachosians 246

  Alfonso X of Castile, king 384

  Algeria 411-412, 416-418, 444, 520

  Algonquian languages 477n, 483n, 484

  Almoravids 99, 384

  Alopen, Nestorian monk 90

  Alphabet

  abstract tool 46

  Brahmi 85n, 156

  Cyrillic 442, 443n

  first 34, 72n, 110, 155

  Kharoshthi 85n

  Greek 242

  Lugano 284-285

  Roman 242, 476

  runic 106

  Siddha 156

  see also writing

  Altaic languages 138, 145, 146, 150, 151, 170

  characteristics 138, 145

  Altan Khan 179

  Amadís de Gaula 331

  Amama correspondence 62, 128

  Amenophis III, pharaoh 231n

  Americana, world enthusiasm for 179

  Americas

  bilingualism 346, 367, 376

  Council of Lima 373

  English-speaking communities 480-481

  European colonies 482

  Hispanización 373-377

  indigenous languages 347-355, 356-360, 361-364, 366-375, 480-484

  language-learning 345-346

  loss of population 22, 336-338, 365

  missionary linguists 346-347, 364, 368, 371, 373-375, 392-394, 481n, 499n, 509, 519, 537, 540n

  political independence 375

  and Portuguese 391-395

 

‹ Prev