Historical & comparative linguistics books

In The Semantics of Glory, Marilyn Burton offers a new model for a cognitive semantic approach to ancient languages,...  Read More >>

Tangam is a critically endangered Trans-Himalayan language spoken by 150 hilltribespeople in the Far Eastern Himalaya....  Read More >>

Stephen Knight has published five collections of poems: Flowering Limbs(Bloodaxe, 1993), Dream City Cinema(Bloodaxe,...  Read More >>

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This is the first book on the Serbi-Mongolic language family - a major language family of Asia - and the first modern...  Read More >>

This new collection brings together some 5,000 contemporary slang expressions originating in all parts of the English-speaking...  Read More >>

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Audio recordings of English are available from the first half of the twentieth century and complement the written...  Read More >>

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You know something is wrong. The paradigm you live in is unjust, rigged against those without money, and completely...  Read More >>

The Irish Classical Self considers the role of classical languages and learning in the construction of Irish cultural...  Read More >>

"This book is the most comprehensive and detailed treatment of the Euskaro-Caucasian hypothesis, i.e., a proposal...  Read More >>

The author reconstructs earlier aspectual systems in the Afro-Asiatic phylum. A central piece of the book is the...  Read More >>

Band VI des Etymologischen Worterbuchs des Althochdeutschen enthalt die Lemmatastrecken M, N, O und P. In diesem...  Read More >>

Discover hundreds of intriguing, entertaining, and often hilarious origins to the English language's most curious...  Read More >>

This book is a comprehensive introductory manual that guides beginners to a functional reading knowledge of late...  Read More >>

While most readings of the biblical Song of Songs merge this enigmatic cycle of love poems into a single couple’s...  Read More >>

Die vorliegende Edition von De Stefani basiert auf den sechs Buchern von Apotelesmatica (astrologischen Gedichten...  Read More >>

How To Speak English Like a Native The English language is perhaps the richest and most expressive in the world....  Read More >>

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The definitions of words are changing and we aren't aware of it. Those who do know are using this information to...  Read More >>

Als Groaworterbuch bietet das Hethitische Worterbuch (HW) zu jedem Wort die wichtigsten Belegstellen mit ausfuhrlichem...  Read More >>

This book examines the epigraphy and history of transmission of the cuneiform sources of the Maqlu anti-witchcraft...  Read More >>

This volume takes a distinctive look at the climate change debate, already widely studied across a number of disciplines,...  Read More >>