Historical & comparative linguistics books

The study fills a long-existing gap by investigating the schwa apocope in the Ripuarian dialect, whose origin can...  Read More >>

This is the 26th book in a series for the messages delivered to the Dean Burgon Society (DBS) conference in various...  Read More >>

When reading a text our understanding of its meaning is influenced by the visual form and material features of the...  Read More >>

Eso es la parte 1 de 2. Esa parte solamente contiene los 5 primeros...  Read More >>

A comprehensive history of deafness, signed languages, and the unresolved struggles of the Deaf to be taught in...  Read More >>

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Relatively little is known about Africa's endangered languages. Unlike indigenous languages in Australia, North...  Read More >>

An edition of the Life of Martin, written around 397 ce by Sulpicius Severus, an Aquitanian lawyer turned Christian...  Read More >>

Ce livre a t publi en 1918 - au sortir de la Grande Guerre - sous le titre Les langues dans l'Europe nouvelle,...  Read More >>

The Dictionary of Indo-European Poetic and Religious Themes is a comprehensive study in Indo-European phraseology...  Read More >>

In this interdisciplinary collection of lectures, Chris Sinha presents a uniquely cultural, developmental and evolutionary...  Read More >>

Have you ever wondered what those odd sounding scientific names actually mean?AQUATICAL-LATIN takes a look at the...  Read More >>

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Papers of the Algonquian Conference is a collection of peer-reviewed presentations from an annual international...  Read More >>

From ‘Abbadabba’ to ‘Z-Cars’, this remarkable dictionary records the rich vocabulary that has evolved over the past...  Read More >>

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This book is an innovative guide to quantitative, corpus-based research in historical and diachronic linguistics....  Read More >>

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

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This book provides a comprehensive and thorough overview of the study of derivational morphology. Chapters cover...  Read More >>

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

This book uses historical sources to discuss continuity and change in spoken language. Based on two corpora compiled...  Read More >>