Historical & comparative linguistics books

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The Dutch Language in Japan (1600-1900): A Cultural and Sociolinguistic Study of Dutch as a Contact Language in Tokugawa and Meiji Japan

The Dutch Language in Japan (1600-1900): A Cultural...
Author: Christopher Joby ISBN: 9789004436442 Format: Hardback	$586.08
In The Dutch Language in Japan (1600-1900) Christopher Joby offers the first book-length account of the knowledge... Read More >>

On The History And Use Of The Suffixes -Ery (-Ry), -Age, And -Ment In English

On The History And Use Of The Suffixes -Ery (-Ry), -Age,...
Author: Fredrik Gadde ISBN: 9789354218217 Format: Paperback	$58.71
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms... Read More >>

Historical Linguistics: An Introduction

Historical Linguistics: An Introduction
Author: Lyle Campbell (Professor of Linguistics, University of Hawai'i at Manoa) ISBN: 9781474463119 Format: Hardback	$253.00
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The Experience of Education in Anglo-Saxon Literature

The Experience of Education in Anglo-Saxon Literature...
Author: Irina Dumitrescu (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) ISBN: 9781108403368 Format: Paperback	$82.80
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Advances in Historical Orthography, c. 1500–1800

Advances in Historical Orthography, c. 1500–1800
Author: Marco Condorelli (University of Central Lancashire, Preston) ISBN: 9781108471800 Format: Hardback	$269.10
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Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age

Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age
Author: Rhona Alcorn (Honorary Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh) , Joanna Kopaczyk (Lecturer, University of Glasgow) ISBN: 9781474430548 Format: Paperback	$57.99
Drawing on the resources created by the Institute of Historical Dialectology at the University of Edinburgh this... Read More >>

Records of Real People: Linguistic variation in Middle English local documents

Records of Real People: Linguistic variation in Middle...
Author: Merja Stenroos (University of Stavanger) , Kjetil V. Thengs (University of Stavanger) ISBN: 9789027207951 Format: Hardback	$214.76
This volume shows the tremendous potential of late- and post-medieval English local documents for historical sociolinguistics:... Read More >>

The Dictionary Wars: The Struggle for Language from the Birth of the Enlightenment to the French Revolution

The Dictionary Wars: The Struggle for Language from...
Author: David Eick ISBN: 9781845531591 Format: Hardback	$105.60
Narrates and analyzes a series of polemics surrounding French lexicography in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.... Read More >>

Reading of Shāng Inscriptions

Reading of Shāng Inscriptions
Author: Kuang Yu Chen , Zhenhao Song ISBN: 9789811562136 Format: Hardback	$258.72
This book introduces readers to oracle bone inscriptions (OBI), the oldest known form of Chinese writing. Read More >>

Idioms and Ambiguity in Context: Phrasal and Compositional Readings of Idiomatic Expressions

Idioms and Ambiguity in Context: Phrasal and Compositional...
Author: Wiltrud Wagner ISBN: 9783110685435 Format: Hardback	$205.83
The present study explores the aesthetic productivity of idiomatic ambiguity in children's literature. Looking at... Read More >>

Varieties of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek

Varieties of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek
Author: Klaas Bentein , Mark Janse ISBN: 9783110608557 Format: Hardback	$205.83
Linguistic varieties such as female speech, foreigner talk, and colloquial language have not gone unnoticed when... Read More >>

Stössig - Süne

Stössig - Süne
Author: Oskar Reichmann ISBN: 9783110678895 Format: Paperback	$382.77
The Early New High German Dictionary is an alphabetically-ordered dictionary of the varieties of High German from... Read More >>

Studies in Ethnopragmatics, Cultural Semantics, and Intercultural Communication: Minimal English (and Beyond)

Studies in Ethnopragmatics, Cultural Semantics, and...
Author: Lauren Sadow , Bert Peeters ISBN: 9789813299818 Format: Paperback	$232.85
This book is the third in a three-volume set that celebrates the career and achievements of Cliff Goddard, a pioneer... Read More >>

Studies in Ethnopragmatics, Cultural Semantics, and Intercultural Communication: Meaning and Culture

Studies in Ethnopragmatics, Cultural Semantics, and...
Author: Bert Peeters , Kerry Mullan ISBN: 9789813299771 Format: Paperback	$310.47
This book is the second in a three-volume set that celebrates the career and achievements of Cliff Goddard, a pioneer... Read More >>

The Language of Thieves: My Family's Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate

The Language of Thieves: My Family's Obsession with...
Author: Martin Puchner , Qarie Marshall ISBN: 9781662038488 Format: Audio	$131.97
Learn about an underground language and the outcasts who depended upon it to survive. Read More >>

The Language of Thieves: My Family's Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate

The Language of Thieves: My Family's Obsession with...
Author: Martin Puchner , Qarie Marshall ISBN: 9781662040887 Format: Audio	$60.69
Learn about an underground language and the outcasts who depended upon it to survive. Read More >>

La Dissemblance Graphemique a l'Ancien Empire: Essai de Grammatologie Cognitive

La Dissemblance Graphemique a l'Ancien Empire: Essai...
Author: Simon Thuault ISBN: 9783943955231 Format: Paperback	$179.52
This book focuses on a hieroglyphic and hieratic peculiarity traditionally called ""dissimilation graphique"", but... Read More >>

Language or Dialect?: The History of a Conceptual Pair

Language or Dialect?: The History of a Conceptual Pair...
Author: Raf Van Rooy (Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Foundation-Flanders (FWO), Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Foundation-Flanders (FWO), KU Leuven) ISBN: 9780198845713 Format: Hardback	$259.95
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John Miles Foley's World of Oralities: Text, Tradition, and Contemporary Oral Theory

John Miles Foley's World of Oralities: Text, Tradition,...
Author: Mark C. Amodio (Professor of English, Vassar College) ISBN: 9781641893381 Format: Hardback	$393.36
Using a range of materials including the Bible, Greek epic, Beowulf, Old Norse, and Old English riddles, and medieval... Read More >>

Linguistic Planets of Belief: Mapping Language Attitudes in the American South

Linguistic Planets of Belief: Mapping Language Attitudes...
Author: Paulina Bounds , Jennifer Cramer ISBN: 9781138491137 Format: Paperback	$83.99
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Linguistic Planets of Belief: Mapping Language Attitudes in the American South

Linguistic Planets of Belief: Mapping Language Attitudes...
Author: Paulina Bounds , Jennifer Cramer ISBN: 9781138491120 Format: Hardback	$305.00
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Persian Linguistics in Cultural Contexts

Persian Linguistics in Cultural Contexts
Author: Alireza Korangy , Farzad Sharifian ISBN: 9781138601345 Format: Hardback	$305.00
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Gemination, Lenition, and Vowel Lengthening: On the History of Quantity in Germanic

Gemination, Lenition, and Vowel Lengthening: On the...
Author: Kurt Goblirsch (University of South Carolina) ISBN: 9781108928946 Format: Paperback	$82.80
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An Introduction to Biblical Greek Workbook: Elementary Syntax and Linguistics

An Introduction to Biblical Greek Workbook: Elementary...
Author: Dana M. Harris , Chi-ying Wong ISBN: 9780310108603 Format: Paperback	$71.25
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That's the Ticket for Soup!: Victorian Views on Vocabulary as Told in the Pages of 'Punch'

That's the Ticket for Soup!: Victorian Views on Vocabulary...
Author: David Crystal ISBN: 9781851245529 Format: Hardback	$29.99
The vocabulary of past times is always fascinating, especially when we see how it was pilloried by the satirists... Read More >>

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