Historical & comparative linguistics books

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Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York

Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother...

Author: Ross Perlin ,  Ross Perlin
ISBN: 9798874764616
Format: Audio
$131.97

"Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century and when they're gone, it will be forever....  Read More >>

Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York

Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother...

Author: Ross Perlin ,  Ross Perlin
ISBN: 9798874764623
Format: Audio
$121.31

"Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century and when they're gone, it will be forever....  Read More >>

Speak American? Govorite li Američki?

Speak American? Govorite li Američki?

Author: Aleksandar D Stajkovic ,  Kayla S Stajkovic
ISBN: 9781733827522
Format: Paperback
$65.87

'Speak American? Govorite li Američki?' je vas vodič za savladavanje 101 Američkog idioma. Sa jasnim definicijama,...  Read More >>

English Gypsies and Their Language

English Gypsies and Their Language

Author: Charles Godfrey Leland
ISBN: 9781396325281
Format: Paperback
$73.89

English Gypsies and Their Language is a crucial work for linguists, anthropologists, and anyone interested in the...  Read More >>

The Passive: A Comparative Linguistic Analysis

The Passive: A Comparative Linguistic Analysis

Author: ANNA SIEWIERSKA
ISBN: 9781032767864
Format: Hardback
$221.00

First published in 1984, The Passive surveys a wide range of different constructions, which have all been termed...  Read More >>

Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York

Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother...

Author: Ross Perlin ,  Ross Perlin
ISBN: 9798874764609
Format: Audio
$190.05

"Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century and when they're gone, it will be forever....  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Southeast Asian Englishes

The Oxford Handbook of Southeast Asian Englishes

Author: Andrew J. Moody (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of MacauProfessor of English, University of Macau)
ISBN: 9780192855282
Format: Hardback
$318.00

This volume describes both the history and the contemporary forms, functions, and status of English in Southeast...  Read More >>

New Horizons in Prescriptivism Research

New Horizons in Prescriptivism Research

Author: Nuria Yáñez‐Bouza ,  María E. Rodríguez‐Gil
ISBN: 9781800416147
Format: Hardback
$310.37

The chapters in this book address three main strands in ongoing scholarly work on prescriptivism: language, literary...  Read More >>

Historische Lexikalische Semantik Und Linked Data: Modellierung Von Ressourcen Der Mittelalterlichen Galloromania F�r Das Semantic Web

Historische Lexikalische Semantik Und Linked Data: Modellierung...

Author: Sabine Tittel
ISBN: 9783111326344
Format: Hardback
$406.53

At the intersection between the semantic web and historical linguistics, this study focuses on lexical semantics...  Read More >>

Philosophy of Language in Uruguay: Language, Meaning, and Philosophy

Philosophy of Language in Uruguay: Language, Meaning,...

Author: Carlos Enrique Caorsi ,  Ricardo J. Navia
ISBN: 9781666960341
Format: Hardback
$303.60

Philosophy of Language in Uruguay examines works of philosophy of language through epistemology, linguistics, and...  Read More >>

Romanian Folklore and its Archaic Heritage: A cultural and Linguistic Comparative Study

Romanian Folklore and its Archaic Heritage: A cultural...

Author: Ana R. Chelariu
ISBN: 9783031040535
Format: Paperback
$369.57

This book presents rich information on Romanian mythology and folklore, previously under-explored in Western scholarship,...  Read More >>

Indexicality: The Role of Indexing in Language Structure and Language Change

Indexicality: The Role of Indexing in Language Structure...

Author: Peter Juul Nielsen ,  María Sol Sansiñena
ISBN: 9783110791174
Format: Hardback
$335.25

The book offers the first full-scale focused treatment of linguistic indexicality as a tool for analysis and explanation...  Read More >>

Urdu - Rasm-ul-khat aur Farogh

Urdu - Rasm-ul-khat aur Farogh

Author: Aijaz Ubaid
ISBN: 9789358724455
Format: Paperback
$58.05

This book covers a variety of subjects, including the distinction between Urdu and Hindi Devanagari script, the...  Read More >>

Creole Noise: Early Caribbean Dialect Literature and Performance

Creole Noise: Early Caribbean Dialect Literature and...

Author: Belinda Edmondson
ISBN: 9780198914648
Format: Paperback
$64.66

This book is a history of Creole, or 'dialect', literature and performance in the English-speaking Caribbean. It...  Read More >>

Tempus: The World of Discussion and the World of Narration

Tempus: The World of Discussion and the World of Narration...

Author: Herald Weinrich ,  Jane K. Brown
ISBN: 9781531503345
Format: Paperback
$68.99

Tempus studies tense uses, ancient and modern, in great literature and everyday life and in all the major languages...  Read More >>

Word Art + Gesture Art = Tone Art: The Relationship Between the Vocal and the Instrumental in Different Arts

Word Art + Gesture Art = Tone Art: The Relationship...

Author: Hanns-Werner Heister ,  Hanjo Polk
ISBN: 9783031201110
Format: Paperback
$475.17

This book offers a truly interdisciplinary discussion on the relationship between the vocal and the instrumental...  Read More >>

The Influence of the Lexifier: Beyond Grammaticalisation in Singapore English

The Influence of the Lexifier: Beyond Grammaticalisation...

Author: Debra Ziegeler
ISBN: 9783110785173
Format: Hardback
$319.41

"The study of language contact in the ""new"" English varieties is frequently influenced by sociolinguistic approaches...  Read More >>

Studies on Chinese Discourse Grammar

Studies on Chinese Discourse Grammar

Author: FANG Mei
ISBN: 9781032589244
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book extends the traditional research perspective of single sentences and contexts to the textual structure...  Read More >>

The Language Puzzle: How We Talked Our Way Out of the Stone Age

The Language Puzzle: How We Talked Our Way Out of the...

Author: Steven Mithen
ISBN: 9781800811584
Format: Hardback
$55.00

A groundbreaking new account of prehistory from one of the most esteemed archaeologists working today  Read More >>

Writing Early China

Writing Early China

Author: Edward L. Shaughnessy
ISBN: 9781438495217
Format: Paperback
$100.19

Considers what unearthed documents reveal about the creation and transmission of knowledge in ancient China.  Read More >>

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