Historical & comparative linguistics books

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Sex Slang

Sex Slang
Author: Tom Dalzell , Terry Victor ISBN: 9781138178229 Format: Hardback	$305.00
Sex Slang not only gives you 3,000 new words to talk about your favourite pastimes, it will open your eyes to practices... Read More >>

Variation in English: Multi-Dimensional Studies

Variation in English: Multi-Dimensional Studies
Author: Douglas Biber , Susan Conrad ISBN: 9781138153479 Format: Hardback	$305.00
Multi-Dimensional studies (MD) is a new statistical approach to language variation developed by Doug Biber. Read More >>

A Dictionary of Rhyming Slang

A Dictionary of Rhyming Slang
Author: Julian Franklyn ISBN: 9781138152984 Format: Hardback	$273.00
This well-known, authoritative dictionary is wittily illustrated and provides a dependable guide to a fascinating... Read More >>

Lingua Franca in the Mediterranean

Lingua Franca in the Mediterranean
Author: J. E. Wansborough ISBN: 9781138979864 Format: Paperback	$98.99
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The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language

The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language...
Author: Melvyn Bragg , Robert Powell ISBN: 9781531874513 Format: Audio	$26.37
Melvyn Bragg's fascinating biography of the English language Read More >>

Routledge Revivals: An Outline of Anglo-Saxon Grammar (1936): Published as an Appendix to ""An Anglo-Saxon Reader""

Routledge Revivals: An Outline of Anglo-Saxon Grammar...
Author: James W. Bright ISBN: 9781138237070 Format: Hardback	$231.00
First published in 1936, this book is intended to provide an outline of Anglo-Saxon grammar for beginners, focusing... Read More >>

The Rise and Fall of Ergativity in Aramaic: Cycles of Alignment Change

The Rise and Fall of Ergativity in Aramaic: Cycles of...
Author: Eleanor Coghill (Research Fellow, Research Fellow, University of Zürich) ISBN: 9780198723806 Format: Hardback	$307.00
This book traces the changes in argument alignment that have taken place in Aramaic during its 3000-year documented... Read More >>

Issues in Contemporary African Linguistics: A Festschrift for Oladele Awobuluyi

Issues in Contemporary African Linguistics: A Festschrift...
Author: Ozo-Mekuri Ndimele , Lendzemo Constatine Yuka ISBN: 9789785412789 Format: Paperback	$198.21
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Audias fabulas veteres. Anatolian Studies in Honor of Jana Součková-Siegelová

Audias fabulas veteres. Anatolian Studies in Honor of...
Author: Šárka Velhartická ISBN: 9789004312609 Format: Hardback	$652.08
The publication, Audias fabulas veteres. Anatolian Studies in Honor of Jana Součková-Siegelová offers 31 contributions... Read More >>

Adjektivsuffixe in Konkurrenz: Wortbildungswandel vom Frühneuhochdeutschen zum Neuhochdeutschen

Adjektivsuffixe in Konkurrenz: Wortbildungswandel vom...
Author: Luise Kempf ISBN: 9783110438840 Format: Hardback	$205.83
Based on a comprehensive corpus that spans five centuries, this study presents the major developmental lines of... Read More >>

Passione Trivulziana: Armonia evangelica volgarizzata in milanese antico. Edizione critica e commentata, analisi linguistica e glossario

Passione Trivulziana: Armonia evangelica volgarizzata...
Author: Michele Colombo ISBN: 9783110476491 Format: Hardback	$205.83
This book provides an edition and a linguistic analysis of a Passion of the Christ written in old Milanese prose... Read More >>

Dialect Matters: Respecting Vernacular Language

Dialect Matters: Respecting Vernacular Language
Author: Peter Trudgill (Universitetet i Agder, Norway) ISBN: 9781107571457 Format: Paperback	$67.27
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Language Between Description and Prescription: Verbs and Verb Categories in Nineteenth-Century Grammars of English

Language Between Description and Prescription: Verbs...
Author: Lieselotte Anderwald ISBN: 9780190270674 Format: Hardback	$428.00
Based on 258 English grammar books, Language Between Description and Prescription investigates nineteenth-century... Read More >>

Dialect Matters: Respecting Vernacular Language

Dialect Matters: Respecting Vernacular Language
Author: Peter Trudgill (Universitetet i Agder, Norway) ISBN: 9781107130470 Format: Hardback	$142.31
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Lenguaje Criollo

Lenguaje Criollo
Author: Dr Gerardo Sanchez ISBN: 9781537254111 Format: Paperback	$22.57
Estudio de la formaci n del lenguaje criollo en la zona de El Caribe, realizado a finales del siglo XIX, palabras... Read More >>

A Sketch of the Modern Languages of the East Indies

A Sketch of the Modern Languages of the East Indies...
Author: Robert N. Cust ISBN: 9781138982000 Format: Paperback	$88.99
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A Cultural History of the English Language

A Cultural History of the English Language
Author: Gerry Knowles ISBN: 9781138144927 Format: Hardback	$305.00
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The Dura Language: Grammar and Phylogeny

The Dura Language: Grammar and Phylogeny
Author: Nicolas Schorer ISBN: 9789004325609 Format: Hardback	$506.88
In The Dura Language: Grammar & Phylogeny Nicolas Schorer provides the definite descriptive account of this poorly... Read More >>

Talkin' Tar Heel: How Our Voices Tell the Story of North Carolina

Talkin' Tar Heel: How Our Voices Tell the Story of North...
Author: Walt Wolfram , Jeffrey Reaser ISBN: 9781469629995 Format: Paperback	$66.00
Drawing on over two decades of research and 3,000 recorded interviews from every corner of the state, Walt Wolfram... Read More >>

Words and Dictionaries – A Festschrift for Professor Stanislaw Stachowski on the Occasion of His 85th Birthday

Words and Dictionaries – A Festschrift for Professor...
Author: Elzbieta Manczak–wohlfel , Barbara Podolak ISBN: 9788323340270 Format: Hardback	$129.38
This book is a collection of articles written in honor of Professor Stanislaw Stachowski, a distinguished linguist... Read More >>

Aspects of Language Variation in Arabic Political Speech-Making

Aspects of Language Variation in Arabic Political Speech-Making...
Author: Nathalie Mazraani ISBN: 9781138963993 Format: Paperback	$96.99
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Constructing Languages: Norms, myths and emotions

Constructing Languages: Norms, myths and emotions
Author: Francesc Feliu (University of Girona, ISIC-IVITRA) , Josep Maria Nadal (Institut d'Estudis Catalans, University of Girona, ISIC-IVITRA) ISBN: 9789027240194 Format: Hardback	$227.70
Grammars, dictionaries and other systematizing instruments strengthen the idea that, because of their normative... Read More >>

Linguistic Genocide or Superdiversity?: New and Old Language Diversities

Linguistic Genocide or Superdiversity?: New and Old...
Author: Reetta Toivanen , Janne Saarikivi ISBN: 9781783096053 Format: Hardback	$297.43
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English – One Tongue, Many Voices

English – One Tongue, Many Voices
Author: Jan Svartvik , Geoffrey Leech ISBN: 9781137550224 Format: Paperback	$232.85
This is the fully revised and expanded second edition of English - One Tongue, Many Voices, a book by three internationally... Read More >>

Urban Voices: Accent Studies in the British Isles

Urban Voices: Accent Studies in the British Isles
Author: Paul Foulkes , Gerard Docherty ISBN: 9781138148444 Format: Hardback	$305.00
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Read More >>

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