Historical & comparative linguistics books

This volume brings together contributions tracing the complex paths of change taken by the English language in its...  Read More >>

Using different theoretical approaches and frameworks, this book addresses a broad range of themes in contrastive...  Read More >>

What can developments in contemporary linguistics and language theory reveal about Shakespeare’s language in the...  Read More >>

In this analytical work, the lexical relationships between Arabic, based on the Qur'ānic register, and Akkadian,...  Read More >>

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This thesis interrogates the extent to which a range of written variation in the Old Babylonian letters from the...  Read More >>

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

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This volume provides a detailed overview of compounding in Italian, from the earliest stages until today. Based...  Read More >>

This book systematically depicts the theory of textual patterns (chengshi) of the eight-part essays and logic in...  Read More >>

A fresh translation of the Septuagint. The Lexham English Septuagint (LES) is a new translation of the Septuagint,...  Read More >>

This book offers a model of language that can be characterized as functionalist, usage-based, dynamic, and complex-adaptive....  Read More >>

Extensively studied and heavily debated, inclusive language is a hot topic. Despite decades of research and scholarship,...  Read More >>

Extensively studied and heavily debated, inclusive language is a hot topic. Despite decades of research and scholarship,...  Read More >>

The Phrygian Language provides an updated overview of this ancient language documented in central Anatolia between...  Read More >>

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A grammar of the late Egyptian language (1250 - 600 BC).  Read More >>

Romani is the first language, and family and community language, of upwards of 3-4 million people and possibly many...  Read More >>

A comprehensive, state-of-the-art survey of English as a world language. It pinpoints the global spread of the English...  Read More >>

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

Compares varieties of the Ojibwe language and establishes subdialect groupings for Southwestern Ojibwe, of the Algonquian...  Read More >>

This multivolume work is still proving to be as fundamental to Old Testament studies as its companion set, the Kittel-Friedrich...  Read More >>

Breaking away from previously rigid descriptions of the linguistic system of the English language, Crossing Linguistic...  Read More >>

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