Historical & comparative linguistics books

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With over 2,000 annotated maps, the Atlas of German Family Names (DFA) makes accessible for the first time Germany's...  Read More >>

This book provides assistance to teachers who struggle with the question of how to appropriately present complex...  Read More >>

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This book asks how we—as citizens, immigrants, activists, teachers—can counter the abuse of language in our midst....  Read More >>

Beyond Grammaticalization and Discourse Markers offers a comprehensive account of the most promising new directions...  Read More >>

Most of the world's Extraterritorial Englishes stem historically from southern English dialects - Southern England...  Read More >>

This book provides an in-depth study of translation and translators in nineteenth-century Ireland, using translation...  Read More >>

Reboot Your Greek: A Forty-Day New Testament Greek Refresher rekindles the reader's love of reading the Greek New...  Read More >>

Reboot Your Greek: A Forty-Day New Testament Greek Refresher rekindles the reader's love of reading the Greek New...  Read More >>

This book is the first critical edition of White Kennett's Etymologicon Anglicanum, a long forgotten etymological...  Read More >>

Dio Chrysostom or ""golden mouth"" (ca. 40-115 CE) was many things-rhetorician, orator, philosopher, historian,...  Read More >>

This book questions Saussure as great innovator in linguistics, while his junior colleague Sechehaye is finally...  Read More >>

This study provides a comprehensive examination of Middle English names of medical preparations found in the available...  Read More >>

In this Very Short Introduction Simon Horobin investigates how we have arrived at the English language we know today,...  Read More >>

In this Very Short Introduction Simon Horobin investigates how we have arrived at the English language we know today,...  Read More >>

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This lively and engaging book, set in the historical context of centuries of migration and multilingualism in Berlin,...  Read More >>

This volume invites readers to explore the stylistic resources of Welsh by comparing twentieth and twenty-first...  Read More >>

This volume invites readers to explore the stylistic resources of Welsh by comparing twentieth and twenty-first...  Read More >>

This book provides an in-depth study of controlled languages used in technical documents from both a theoretical...  Read More >>

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2015 celebrated the centennial of the decipherment of Hittite by Bedrich Hrozny and, thus, the establishment of...  Read More >>

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