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Dictionary of language and linguistics 88Scriven, M. 1976. Reasoning. New York.Toulmin, S. 1958. The uses of argument. Cambridge.——et al. 1979. An introduction to reasoning. New York.Van Eemeren, F. et al. (eds) 1987. Argumentation: proceedings of the first international conferenceon argumentation, 3 vols. Dordrecht.——et al. (eds) 1987. Handbook of argumentation theory: critical survey of classical backgroundsand modern studies. Dordrecht.BibliographyNye, R.A. 1973. Argument and debate: an annotated bibliography. New York.JournalArgumentation: an International Journal of ReasoningArmenianBranch of Indo-European consisting of only one language with numerous dialects andapprox. 5.5 million speakers located in the former Soviet Union, Turkey, Iran, and innumerous other countries. Written documents date from the fifth century AD. Armenianhas its own alphabet which continues to be used today and according to tradition wasdeveloped by bishop Mesrop in AD 406, based on Aramaic and Greek. Armeniancontains numerous loan words, particularly from Persian.Characteristics: articulatory contrast of voiceless/voiceless aspirated/voiced; rich casesystem (seven cases); loss of Indo-European gender system; word order: SVO.ReferencesBardakjian, K.B. and R.W.Thomson, 1977. A text-book of modern western Armenian. Delmar, NY.Diakonoff, I.M. 1984. The pre-history of the Armenian people. Delmar, NY.Godel, R. 1975. An introduction to the study of Classical Armenian. Wiesbaden.Greppin, J.A.C. and A.A.Khachaturian. 1986. A handbook of Armenian dialectology. Delmar, NY.Leroy, M. and F.Mawet. 1986. La place de l’arménien dans les langues indo-européennes. Leuven.Solta, G. 1964. Die armenische Sprache. In B.Spuler (ed.), Handbuch der Orientalistik I, vol. 7:Armenisch und kaukasische Sprachen. Leiden. 80–128.Thomson, R.W. 1975. An introduction to Classical Armenian. Delmar, NY.