Historical & comparative linguistics books

Cant and Slang are universal and world-wide. By their means is often said in a sentence what would otherwise take...  Read More >>

The papers in this volume represent the full range of research that is currently being carried out on Neo-Aramaic...  Read More >>

Contextualising one of the most pressing cultural questions of our generation, Dennis Baron reveals the untold story...  Read More >>

History of the Akkadian Language offers a detailed chronological survey of the oldest known Semitic language and...  Read More >>

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms...  Read More >>

Principien der Sprachgeschichte (1880) is Hermann Paul's best-known work. In it, Paul argues that although language...  Read More >>

Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) became a household name around the world through the collections of fairy tales he compiled...  Read More >>

Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) became a household name around the world through the collections of fairy tales he compiled...  Read More >>

The monumental, multi-volume comparative grammar of the Indo-European languages by Karl Brugmann (1849-1919) provided...  Read More >>

Karl Brugmann (1849-1919) was professor of comparative language sciences at Freiburg im Breisgau when he began publishing...  Read More >>

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms...  Read More >>

English summary: The hitherto unstudied Middle High German treatise Forty Bundles of Myrrh of Christ's Passion...  Read More >>

For all those interested in literacy and script usage in general and in the ancient world in particular. As the...  Read More >>

One of the fundamental properties of human language is movement, where a constituent moves from one position in...  Read More >>

One of the fundamental properties of human language is movement, where a constituent moves from one position in...  Read More >>

This book presents a comprehensive picture of reflexive pronouns from both a theoretical and experimental perspective,...  Read More >>

This book is a comprehensive study on the phonetic characteristics of citation tones in Chaoshan Chinese. This book...  Read More >>

Katz uses the model of the resultative, an event type linking a transition and resulting state, to underpin the...  Read More >>

William Dwight Whitney (1827-94) was the foremost American philologist and Sanskrit scholar of the nineteenth century....  Read More >>

This book explores many of the unanswered questions surrounding the original and eponymous Lingua Franca, a language...  Read More >>

A Greek Scripture Journal for the Letter to the RomansFrom the 28th Edition of the Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum...  Read More >>

A Greek ScriptureJournal for theGospel of MarkFrom the 28th Edition of the Nestle-AlandNovum Testamentum GraeceGerman...  Read More >>

Post World War II Hawaii: an exotic location and a formative time in American history. In Reminisce, Reflections,...  Read More >>

This volume presents the original text, accompanied by an English translation and commentary, of a hitherto unpublished...  Read More >>

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