Historical & comparative linguistics books

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Blowing on Yogurt and Other Egyptian Arabic Expressions: Illi in Fifty Idioms

Blowing on Yogurt and Other Egyptian Arabic Expressions:...

Author: Mona Kamel Hassan ,  Nagwa Kassabgy
ISBN: 9781649033468
Format: Hardback
$50.03

A lively and informative collection of fifty common Egyptian colloquial expressions and proverbs, this book is must...  Read More >>

Celtic from the West 3: Atlantic Europe in the Metal Ages - Questions of Shared Language

Celtic from the West 3: Atlantic Europe in the Metal...

Author: John T Koch ,  Barry Cunliffe
ISBN: 9798888571538
Format: Paperback
$145.00

The third volume in the influential Celtic from the West series questions the accepted status quo on the development...  Read More >>

Names Fashioned by Gender: Stitched Perceptions

Names Fashioned by Gender: Stitched Perceptions

Author: Thenjiwe Meyiwa ,  Madodo Cekiso
ISBN: 9781776151288
Format: Paperback
$29.70

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Intensifiers in Late Modern English: A Sociopragmatic Approach to Courtroom Discourse

Intensifiers in Late Modern English: A Sociopragmatic...

Author: Claudia Claridge (University of Augsburg) ,  Ewa Jonsson (Mid Sweden University)
ISBN: 9781108428668
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Drawing on a rich bank of data from the Old Bailey Corpus, this groundbreaking book provides the first full study...  Read More >>

Linguistic Archaeology: An Introduction and Methodological Guide

Linguistic Archaeology: An Introduction and Methodological...

Author: Gerd Carling
ISBN: 9781032271767
Format: Paperback
$73.99

Linguistic Archaeology provides students with an accessible introduction to the field of linguistic archaeology,...  Read More >>

Variants and Variance in Classical Textual Cultures: Errors, Innovations, Proliferation, Reception?

Variants and Variance in Classical Textual Cultures:...

Author: Glenn W. Most
ISBN: 9783111017105
Format: Hardback
$335.25

Given the limited durability of most textual supports, texts must be reproduced if they are to survive. And given...  Read More >>

Linguistic Archaeology: An Introduction and Methodological Guide

Linguistic Archaeology: An Introduction and Methodological...

Author: Gerd Carling
ISBN: 9781032271798
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Linguistic Archaeology provides students with an accessible introduction to the field of linguistic archaeology,...  Read More >>

Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write

Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to...

Author: Dennis Yi Tenen (Columbia University)
ISBN: 9780393882186
Format: Hardback
$36.95

In the industrial age, automation came for the shoemaker and the seamstress. Today, it has come for the writer,...  Read More >>

Before the Word Was Queer: Sexuality and the English Dictionary, 1600–1930

Before the Word Was Queer: Sexuality and the English...

Author: Stephen Turton (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781316518731
Format: Hardback
$271.69

This book uncovers how same-sex acts, desires, and identities have been represented in English dictionaries in Britain...  Read More >>

Linguistic Interfaces in East-Asian Languages: A Festschrift in Honor of Yoshihisa Kitagawa

Linguistic Interfaces in East-Asian Languages: A Festschrift...

Author: Jen Ting ,  Yu-Yin Hsu
ISBN: 9789811944444
Format: Hardback
$369.57

This book contains new research essays of linguistic interface studies in or related to East Asian languages. The...  Read More >>

Descriptive Grammar and Diachrony of Kurima: A Minority South Ryukyuan Language of the Miyako Islands

Descriptive Grammar and Diachrony of Kurima: A Minority...

Author: Aleksandra Jarosz
ISBN: 9789004680531
Format: Hardback
$551.76

A comprehensive descriptive grammar of a moribund insular variety of Miyako-Ryukyuan, rich in noteworthy typological...  Read More >>

Chinese Proverbs Illustrated

Chinese Proverbs Illustrated

Author: James Trapp
ISBN: 9781838863692
Format: Hardback
$77.60

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A Winning Dialect: Reinventing Linguistic Tradition in Rural Norway

A Winning Dialect: Reinventing Linguistic Tradition...

Author: Thea R. Strand
ISBN: 9781487545963
Format: Paperback
$49.14

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Urdu Zaban ka Taarikhi Tanazur: (Essays)

Urdu Zaban ka Taarikhi Tanazur: (Essays)

Author: Mirza Khaleel Ahmed Baig
ISBN: 9789358725964
Format: Paperback
$60.69

This book is an assortment of a few literary pieces authored by Mirza Khaleel Ahmed Baig regarding the topics of...  Read More >>

Urdu Tahriik: (Essays)

Urdu Tahriik: (Essays)

Author: Dr Mohd Shareef Nizami
ISBN: 9789358724097
Format: Paperback
$60.69

This book contains three important essays about the development and promotion of the Urdu language. This book addresses...  Read More >>

The Linguistic Roots of Ancient Greek

The Linguistic Roots of Ancient Greek

Author: Don Ringe (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9780198879022
Format: Hardback
$230.95

This book traces the development of Greek from Proto-Indo-European to around the 5th century BC, drawing on all...  Read More >>

Mother Tongue: The surprising history of women's words -'A gem of a book' (Kate Mosse)

Mother Tongue: The surprising history of women's words...

Author: Jenni Nuttall
ISBN: 9780349015316
Format: Paperback
$24.99

A rich, provocative and entertaining history of women's words - of the language we have, and haven't, had to share...  Read More >>

Communal Dialects in Baghdad

Communal Dialects in Baghdad

Author: Haim Blanc ,  David Blanc
ISBN: 9789004689794
Format: Hardback
$303.60

A revised reprint of the classic study of the communal Arabic dialects of Baghdad (Muslim, Christian, and Jewish)....  Read More >>

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