Historical & comparative linguistics books

First published in 1942, this dictionary was designed to help civilians and members of H.M. forces to make their...  Read More >>

First published in 1933, this book explores both contemporary and historical slang, focusing on the characteristics...  Read More >>

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This study is a linguistic analysis of the first two academic periodicals from their creation in 1665 until the...  Read More >>

First published in 1940, this book provides a literary dictionary to the New Testament. The treatment of selected...  Read More >>

First published in 1949 (this edition in 1968), this book is a dictionary of the past, exploring the language of...  Read More >>

First published in 1939, this book provides a brief but comprehensive view of language in general, and of English...  Read More >>

First published in 1940, this book was designed by Eric Partridge to equip students, studying for final exams at...  Read More >>

Vlachen oder Waliser, Wallonen oder Wloski, Rumanen, Romantsch, Aromunier oder Ladiner - all das sind im heutigen...  Read More >>

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

Includes: 10 Minutes a Day[registered]' Book ; bonus study tools - 150 Sticky Labels, and Flash Cards; and, an...  Read More >>

This volume includes selected contributions from the 2nd International TRANSLATA Conference on translation theory...  Read More >>

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The author focuses on authentic data taken from the International Corpus of English (the Hong Kong component) and...  Read More >>

In der Reihe Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) erscheinen Arbeiten zu sämtlichen...  Read More >>

This book, first published in 1933, examines the dialect of the people of Byers Green in County Durham. Orton explores...  Read More >>

This book, first published in 1984, presents a series of analysis of colloquial spoken language, to illustrate some...  Read More >>

What do English-speaking Canadians sound like and why? Can you tell the difference between a Canadian and an American?...  Read More >>

First published in 1987, this atlas identifies structural patterns which exist in the sound systems of the dialects...  Read More >>

First published in 1980, this book questions many of the assumptions that have accumulated around the subject of...  Read More >>

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First published in 1986, this book focuses on Anaphoric relations in the English and French languages, a phenomenon...  Read More >>

First published in 1988, this book explores the grammatical loss of gender in English. It demonstrates that from...  Read More >>