Historical & comparative linguistics books

Originally published in 1940 this book focusses on the three main groups of Eastern Sudanic languages, namely Moru-Madi,...  Read More >>

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The northern limit of the Bantu languages is one of the important linguistic boundaries of Africa and this and the...  Read More >>

This volume, originally published in 1970, presents a survey of the languages spoken in an area extending from the...  Read More >>

A diachronic and synchronic account of the verb morphology and phonology of Aramaic, a subfamily of Semitic, from...  Read More >>

Few words are as ideologically charged as ghetto, a term that has described legally segregated Jewish quarters,...  Read More >>

Containing over 200 coloured dialect maps, this atlas describes the Arabic dialects of Galilee and some adjacent...  Read More >>

Historical linguistics is a growing field, and so is the notion of the role of cultural aspects as involved in language...  Read More >>

Die Hianakoto-Umaua, first published in 1908, is Theodor Koch-Grunberg's illustrated account of the expedition he...  Read More >>

For nearly forty years, Understanding and Using English Grammar has been the go-to grammar resource for students...  Read More >>

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Unless you have trouble spelling IQ or are so mean you'd squeeze drink out of a floozie's knickers, grab this Feckin'...  Read More >>

Everyone who studies or researches ancient Greek uses the Greek-English Lexicon of Liddell and Scott: this volume...  Read More >>

GlossaHouse Illustrated Biblical Texts (GIBT) present the books of the Bible in their original languages, embedded...  Read More >>

This book presents a formal, constraint-based account of the main diachronic and synchronic patterns of variation...  Read More >>

Penry Williams' book presents an original study of Australian English and, via this, insights into Australian society....  Read More >>

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The Precursors of Proto-Indo-European contains sixteen contributions that offer the newest insights into the prehistory...  Read More >>

According to Their Kinds presents all vocabulary words that occur 100 times or more in the Hebrew Bible. Pairing...  Read More >>

Its object-scientific aim is to provide a comprehensive analysis of the beginnings of a semantic change process...  Read More >>

English summary: Sanskrit is the old language of India and the origin of words like yoga, mantra, ayurveda, karma...  Read More >>

This monograph takes up recent advances in social network methods in sociology, together with data on economic segregation,...  Read More >>

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