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LANGUAGE & LITERATURE
A Short History By George Kiraz Explores the use of the Syriac dot.
The dot is used for everything in Syriac from tense to gender, number, and pronunciation, and unsurprisingly represents one of the biggest obstacles to learning the language. Using inscriptions, early grammars, and experiments with modern scribes, Dr. Kiraz peels back the evolution of the Syriac dot.
Gorgias Press • 9781463241001 • Paperback • 178 x 140mm 232 pages • August 2019 • £35.00
Wuka nya-nganunga li-Yanyuwa li-Anthawirriyarra. Language for Us, The Yanyuwa Saltwater People
A Yanyuwa Encyclopaedia By John Bradley A rich, authoritative repository of the cultural and linguistic knowledge of the Yanyuwa, Northern Australia. This Encyclopaedia is a rich, authoritative repository of the cultural and linguistic knowledge of the Yanyuwa, the Saltwater people of the coastal and island country near Borroloola in the Northern Territory of Australia. Volume 1 will interest linguists and ethnographic researchers, covering the language, recorded texts, translations, songs and Ancestral Dreaming Stories. Volume 2 delves deeper into linguistics to examine Yanyuwa grammar, sounds, dialects, and a Yanyuwa-English dictionary.
Australian Scholarly Publishing • 9781925588682 • Paperback 1410 pages • July 2020 • £75.00
The Poetics of Plants in Latin American Literature
By Lesley Wylie Series: Illuminations Examines the defining role of plants in cultural expression across Latin America.
From the colonial georgic to Pablo Neruda’s Canto general, Lesley Wylie’s close study of botanical imagery demonstrates the fundamental role of the natural world and the relationship between people and plants in the region. The book establishes how vegetal imaginaries are key to Spanish American attempts to renovate European forms and traditions as well as to the reconfiguration of the relationship between humans and nonhumans.
