The World's major languages / edited by Bernard Comrie

"For the 1989 [sic] number of minor errors have been corrected and bibliographical material has been updated." --Pref

Includes bibliographies and index

Introduction / Bernard Comrie --Indo-European languages / Philip Baldi --Germanic languages / John A. Hawkins --English / Edward Finegan --German / John A. Hawkins --Dutch / Jan G. Kooij --Danish, Norwegian and Swedish / Einar Haugen --Latin and the Italic languages / R.G.G. Coleman --Romance languages / John N. Green --French / Martin Harris --Spanish / John N. Green --Portuguese / Stephen Parkinson --Italian / Nigel Vincent --Rumanian / Graham Mallinson --Slavonic languages / Bernard Comrie --Russian / Bernard Comrie --Polish / Gerald Stone --Czech and Slovak --David Short --Serbo-Croat / Greville Corbett --Greek / Brian D. Joseph --Indo-Aryan languages / George Cardona --Sanskrit / George Cardona --Hindi-Urdu / Yamuna Kachru -- Bengali / M.H. Klaiman --Iranian languages / J.R. Payne --Persian / Gernot L. Windfuhr --Pashto / D.N. Mackenzie --Uralic languages / Robert Austerlitz --Hungarian / Daniel Abondolo --Finnish / Michael Branch --Turkish and the Turkic languages / Jaklin Kornfilt -- Afroasiatic languages / Robert Hetzron --Semitic languages / Robert Hetzron --Arabic / Alan S. Kaye --Hebrew / Robert Hetzron --Hausa and the Chadic languages / Paul Newman --Tamil and the Dravidian languages / Sanford B. Steever --Tai languages / David Strecker --Thai / Thomas John Hudak --Vietnamese / ����nh-Ho�� Nguy����n --Sino-Tibetan languages / Scott Delancey --Chinese / Charles N. Li and Sandra A. Thompson --Burmese / Julian K. Wheatley --Japanese / Masayoshi Shibatani --Korean / Nam-Kil Kim --Austronesian languages / Ross Clark --Malay (Indonesian and Malaysian) / D.J. Prentice --Tagalog / Paul Schachter --Niger-Kordofanian languages / Douglas Pulleyblank --Yoruba / Douglas Pulleyblank --Swahili and the Bantu languages / Benji Wald