Historical & comparative linguistics books

Das Phanomen ""Anrede"" ist ein vielschichtiges Thema und seit den 1960er Jahren immer wieder Untersuchungsobjekt...  Read More >>

Thomas O. Höllmann explains the development of the Chinese writing system and its importance in literature, religion,...  Read More >>

The Studies in Japanese and Korean Historical and Theoretical Linguistics and Beyond offers an excellent introduction...  Read More >>

The Bible book of Deuteronomy with original Hebrew, as well as English translation and transliteration in 3 lines,...  Read More >>

Il y a quelques années, j'ai traversé une épreuve très difficile. J'aurais pu m'effondrer... Mais D.ieu m'a, je...  Read More >>

Present research focuses on Mongolic loanwords in Ewenki dialects spoken in the territory of Buryatia. The aim of...  Read More >>

The juxtaposition of habitat, a product of architecture, and speech, a product of language, enables the perception...  Read More >>

Collects over 500 of the funniest-sounding and delightful words in the English language, and traces them back to...  Read More >>

The Mayan family of languages is ancient and unique. With their distinctive relational nouns, positionals, and complex...  Read More >>

A collection of essays by four distinguished Harvard professors: The Anglo-Saxon Courts of Law by Henry Adams; The...  Read More >>

This handbook offers an up-to-date account of the state of the art in different areas of onomastics, in a format...  Read More >>

The Mayan family of languages is ancient and unique. With their distinctive relational nouns, positionals, and complex...  Read More >>

This book discusses the relation between identity and dialects.  Read More >>

Contributes to the appreciation of the linguistic, literary and contextual value of Homeric personal names. This...  Read More >>

Twenty years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan...  Read More >>

This concise compendium explains semantics at all systemic levels, from morphemes to discourses, based on a common...  Read More >>

The fun and fascinating follow-up to the international bestseller Red Herrings and White Elephants Why do people...  Read More >>

In Argument structure in Kashmiri Saartje Verbeke studies the patterns of grammatical relations in the Indo-Aryan...  Read More >>

This collection of thirty-two contributions covers all aspects of the ancient languages and scripts of Arabia, their...  Read More >>

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This book presents a collection of state-of-the-art work in corpus-based interpreting studies, highlighting international...  Read More >>

Reprint of Archer Taylor's Study in the History of a Folk-Tale originally published in 1927.  Read More >>

As the tricolor rose over revolutionary France, language, with its ability to define ideals and allegiances, was...  Read More >>