Historical & comparative linguistics books

This book charts the trajectory of Heidegger’s concept of silence by focusing on its relation to truth as the unconcealedness...  Read More >>

Many of the world's languages permit or require clause-initial positioning of the primary predicate, potentially...  Read More >>

This book explores the usage patterns of a group of adversative and concessive conjunctions in English texts written...  Read More >>

This volume presents a Construction Grammar account of Old English argument structure that integrates modern cognitive...  Read More >>

This collection explores the interplay between the various national discourses that characterised the scholarly...  Read More >>

Broken down by category, this comprehensive reference is the go-to guide for readers, writers, and anyone who wants...  Read More >>

Multilingualism and language contact have shaped European history up to the present day. After intensive research...  Read More >>

This collection of essays gives an insight into the problems that we encounter when we try to (re)contruct events...  Read More >>

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Using a range of materials including the Bible, Greek epic, Beowulf, Old Norse, and Old English riddles, and medieval...  Read More >>

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As the first book-length comparison of the history and current status of English and Spanish, this volume reveals...  Read More >>

This book brings together an interdisciplinary group of academic researchers in order to examine how and to what...  Read More >>

This uniquely fascinating volume is not merely a learned treatise in historical semantics; it is itself a stupendous...  Read More >>

The palaeography of the first Slavic script - the Glagolitic script - is being published in English language for...  Read More >>

The Bavarian Dictionary employs the principles of modern lexicography and draws on a vastly larger body of source...  Read More >>

Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--University of Michigan, 2007.  Read More >>

This book is a general introduction to the structures of the different medieval Romance vernaculars most commonly...  Read More >>

The book presents a linguo-cultural picture of traditional values reflected in Anglo-American and Polish proverbs....  Read More >>