本书收入了云南、四川、贵州、广西四省区所有古彝文及其义项，是目前为止最为全面的一本彝文字集。

It is commonly agreed by linguists and anthropologists that the majority of languages spoken now around the globe will likely disappear within our lifetime. The phenomenon known as language death has started to accelerate as the world has grown smaller. This extinction of languages, and the knowledge therein, has no parallel in human history. K. David Harrison's book is the first to focus on the essential question, what is lost when a language dies? What forms of knowledge are embedded in a language's structure and vocabulary? And how harmful is it to humanity that such knowledge is lost forever? Harrison spans the globe from Siberia, to North America, to the Himalayas and elsewhere, to look at the human knowledge that is slowly being lost as the languages that express it fade from sight. He uses fascinating anecdotes and portraits of some of these languages' last remaining speakers, in order to demonstrate that this knowledge about ourselves and the world is inherently precious and once gone, will be lost forever. This knowledge is not only our cultural heritage (oral histories, poetry, stories, etc.) but very useful knowledge about plants, animals, the seasons, and other aspects of the natural world--not to mention our understanding of the capacities of the human mind.Harrison's book is a testament not only to the pressing issue of language death, but to the remarkable span of human knowledge and ingenuity. It will fascinate linguists, anthropologists, and general readers.

Before the first appearance of the "Atlas of the World's Languages" in 1993, all the world's languages had never been accurately and completely mapped. The "Atlas" depicts the location of every known living language, including languages on the point of extinction. This fully revised edition of the "Atlas" offers: up-to-date research, some from fieldwork in early 2006; a general linguistic history of each section; an overview of the genetic relations of the languages in each section; statistical and sociolinguistic information; a large number of new or completely updated maps; further reading and a bibliography for each section; and, a cross-referenced language index of over 6,000 languages. Presenting contributions from international scholars, covering over 6,000 languages and containing over 150 full-colour maps, the "Atlas of the World's Languages" is the definitive reference resource for every linguistic and reference library.

《彝语方言学》为我校“211工程”成果，为我校少数民族语言文学院所用教材。《彝语方言学》对彝语方言进行了全面研究和论述。

Examines the political problems arising from the movement for reform of the Chinese written language

This reference grammar provides, for the first time, a description of the grammar of "Mandarin Chinese", the official spoken language of China's mainland and Taiwan, in functional terms, focusing on the role and meanings of word-level and sentence-level structures in actual conversations.

《到田野去：语言学田野调查的方法与实践》讲述了：在中国广袤的土地上，生活着丰富多彩、文化各异的族群，他们灿烂的思想和珍贵的文明遗产都凝聚于他们的语言之中。异彩纷呈的鲜活语言在中国的山川田野中无处不在。一方面，这些丰富的共时语言矿藏显示着他们在世界语言之林的独特地位；另一方面也与中国数千年汇聚而来的浩瀚文献相映成辉。活生生的语言展示着人类思维表达之精巧，也与数千年的语言传统相衔接。但我们不能不关注的是，中国的语言多样性同样在流失。一些弱势语言在经济、文化的巨大压力下已经开始濒危、消亡，这是一个令人痛心的严峻形势。

《汉语大词典:书证溯源》是作为是一部大型历时性详解语文词典，依照“古今兼收，源流并重”的方针编纂，力图反映出汉语词汇的历史演变。所以在每一词条的书证中，既有溯源，又有探流，以此来反映该词的历时发展过程。而其中的工作，尤以溯源最为重要，因为最早的用例即“最早书证”或“始见书证”标志着一个词语的正式产生。在溯源的基础上，又探究了语词的流变乃至定型，寻求其体式沿革、意义更迭，理清本义、引申义、假借义、比喻义之相互关系与演变规律。