Historical & comparative linguistics books

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

Building upon theoretical innovations and extensive empirical findings, this book explains variation in the syntactic...  Read More >>

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

In this first ever discourse analysis of advocacy advice texts-manuals, handbooks, and other how-to guides written...  Read More >>

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Edo Nyland shares with us his research on the evolution of European and other languages and his conclusions offer...  Read More >>

The Hebrew language is rooted in the east African, ancient Egyptian dual languages of Amarigna and Tigrigna. This...  Read More >>

This work is a documentation of the Neo-Aramaic dialect spoken by Assyrian Christians in the region of Urmi (northwestern-Iran)....  Read More >>

The Routledge Student Guide to English Usage is an invaluable A–Z guide to the appropriate use of English in academic...  Read More >>

The vocabulary from the beginning of the Low German language, the period of Old Saxon, has not been captured in...  Read More >>

Edo Nyland shares with us his research on the evolution of European and other languages and his conclusions offer...  Read More >>

An Elementary Grammar of the Japanese Language with Easy Progressive Exercises By Tatui Baba is an unchanged, high-quality...  Read More >>

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Building upon theoretical innovations and extensive empirical findings, this book explains variation in the syntactic...  Read More >>

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The mother tongue of the Roman Empire and the lingua franca of the West for centuries afterward, Latin survives...  Read More >>

In Coastal Dhofari Arabic: A Sketch Grammar, Richard Davey provides a detailed account of the Phonology, Morphology...  Read More >>

The Diarii, faithful chronicle of the years between 1496 and 1533 written by the Venetian patrician Marino Sanuto,...  Read More >>

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

A humorous, trenchant and fascinating examination of how Western culture's taboo words have evolved over the millennia....  Read More >>

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The Chinese language is rooted in the east African, ancient Egyptian dual languages of Amarigna and Tigrigna. This...  Read More >>

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This revised edition of the best-selling Biblical Hebrew is thoroughly updated and augmented for a new generation...  Read More >>