Historical & comparative linguistics books

This book crystallises key interrelationships between linguistic standardisation and prescriptivism, contextualising...  Read More >>

Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Toronto, 2014.  Read More >>

Der erfolgreiche Abschluss des Projektes ""Altagyptisches Worterbuch"" an der Sachsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften...  Read More >>

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Is there anything more fascinating than word origins? Whether you're a student of linguistics or a linguist by profession,...  Read More >>

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This second volume on the Dictionnaire Étymologique Roman (DÉRom) contains forty new lexicographical articles as...  Read More >>

The Understanding Language series provides approachable, yet authoritative, introductions to all the major topics...  Read More >>

History, archaeology, and human evolutionary genetics provide us with an increasingly detailed view of the origins...  Read More >>

A new cover look for the 5th anniversary of Mark Forsyth's brilliant Sunday Times Number One bestseller.  Read More >>

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OMFG! IT'S THE TOTES AWESOME DICTIONARY OF TEEN SLANG!  Read More >>

The general focus in Lakota oral literary research has been in the study of content rather than process in oral...  Read More >>

An account of the development of the Indo-European vowel system in its latest stages.  Read More >>

As the most complete account of Tarahumara culture ever written, Tarahumara Medicine grants readers access to a...  Read More >>

Our understanding of the textual history of the Hebrew Bible has been transformed in the wake of the discovery of...  Read More >>

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Analyzing literary texts, plays, films and photographs within a transatlantic framework, this volume explores the...  Read More >>

Using a corpus linguistics methodology, it describes how the English clause system currently behaves, how it has...  Read More >>

This textbook offers a concise overview of Quebec French. Taking into account its specific linguistic characteristics...  Read More >>

The study investigates Psalm 145 and the Psalms of Hallel (Psalms 146-150). For the first time, it reveals the intertextual...  Read More >>

Based on phonological and morphological phenomena in German, the authors explore the relationship between regularity...  Read More >>

This study examines German perfect constructions from a usage-based perspective by carrying out a meticulous empirical...  Read More >>

This book, situated within the framework of Comparative Interactional Linguistics, explores a family of fourteen...  Read More >>

The Old Nubian Texts from Attiri is the first publication in the Dotawo: Monographs series. It presents heretofore...  Read More >>