Historical & comparative linguistics books

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Improper Names: Collective Pseudonyms from the Luddites to Anonymous

Improper Names: Collective Pseudonyms from the Luddites...

Author: Marco Deseriis
ISBN: 9780816694877
Format: Paperback
$39.99

Bridging gaps among thehistory of the labor movement, cinema studies, art history, media activism, andhacking, Improper...  Read More >>

Haitian Creole: Structure, Variation, Status, Origin

Haitian Creole: Structure, Variation, Status, Origin...

Author: Albert Valdman
ISBN: 9781845533885
Format: Paperback
$62.99

Haitian Creole presents a comprehensive view of the structure and development of Haitian Creole.  Read More >>

Invisible Languages in the Nineteenth Century

Invisible Languages in the Nineteenth Century

Author: Stephan Elspaß ,  Nils Langer
ISBN: 9783034319683
Format: Paperback
$167.02

This book focuses on the nineteenth century as the time when language became an important part of the cultural identity...  Read More >>

Shortcut: How Analogies Reveal Connections, Spark Innovation, and Sell Our Greatest Ideas

Shortcut: How Analogies Reveal Connections, Spark Innovation,...

Author: John Pollack
ISBN: 9781592409471
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Rich with engaging stories, surprising examples, and a practical method toevaluate the truth or effectiveness of...  Read More >>

Haitian Creole: Structure, Variation, Status, Origin

Haitian Creole: Structure, Variation, Status, Origin...

Author: Albert Valdman
ISBN: 9781845533878
Format: Hardback
$270.00

Haitian Creole presents a comprehensive view of the structure and development of Haitian Creole.  Read More >>

Languages in Contact

Languages in Contact

Author: Lisa Lim (The University of Hong Kong) ,  Umberto Ansaldo (The University of Hong Kong)
ISBN: 9780521149259
Format: Paperback
$72.45

Introducing new insights from popular culture, the globalised new economy and computer-mediated communication, this...  Read More >>

Bibliografía cronológica de la lingüística, la gramática y la lexicografía del español (BICRES V): Desde el año 1861 hasta el año 1899

Bibliografía cronológica de la lingüística, la gramática...

Author: Miguel Ángel Esparza Torres (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos) ,  Hans-Josef Niederehe (Universidad de Tréveris)
ISBN: 9789027246158
Format: Hardback
$238.05

BICRES V covers the period 1861-1899. Relative sources of the Americas have also been covered, in order to offer...  Read More >>

Dean Burgon Society Messages, 37th Annual Meeting

Dean Burgon Society Messages, 37th Annual Meeting

Author: Dr D A Waite
ISBN: 9781568480947
Format: Paperback
$63.36

This book is contains all the messages delivered at the 37th Annual Meeting of the Dean Burgon Society in 2015 at...  Read More >>

Written in Stone: A Journey Through the Stone Age and the Origins of Modern Language

Written in Stone: A Journey Through the Stone Age and...

Author: Christopher Stevens ,  Michael Healy
ISBN: 9798200004515
Format: Audio
$44.85

Witty and erudite, Written in Stone is the first etymology book to reveal how the English language is based on original...  Read More >>

Written in Stone: A Journey Through the Stone Age and the Origins of Modern Language

Written in Stone: A Journey Through the Stone Age and...

Author: Christopher Stevens ,  Michael Healy
ISBN: 9798200004508
Format: Audio
$44.85

Witty and erudite, Written in Stone is the first etymology book to reveal how the English language is based on original...  Read More >>

Written in Stone: A Journey Through the Stone Age and the Origins of Modern Language

Written in Stone: A Journey Through the Stone Age and...

Author: Christopher Stevens ,  Michael Healy
ISBN: 9798200004522
Format: Audio
$44.85

Witty and erudite, Written in Stone is the first etymology book to reveal how the English language is based on original...  Read More >>

Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs

Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs

Author: Jennifer Speake
ISBN: 9780198734901
Format: Paperback
$29.95

This unique and thoroughly revised collection contains over 1,100 of the most widely used proverbs in English, drawing...  Read More >>

English-Latvian Lexicographic Tradition: A Critical Analysis

English-Latvian Lexicographic Tradition: A Critical...

Author: Laura Karpinska
ISBN: 9783110369878
Format: Hardback
$212.95

Provides a survey of the development of the English-Latvian lexicographic tradition considering the extra-linguistic...  Read More >>

The Dhatupatha of Panini: An Elucidation

The Dhatupatha of Panini: An Elucidation

Author: Ashwini Kumar Aggarwal
ISBN: 9781519690579
Format: Paperback
$38.44

This book is an authentic, well researched elucidation of Panini's Dhatupatha, the Roots of the Sanskrit Language....  Read More >>

Animaux: Les Mammiferes

Animaux: Les Mammiferes

Author: Ana Maria Cano Gonzalez ,  Jean-Pierre Germain
ISBN: 9783110424133
Format: Hardback
$1364.88

This volume of the dictionary, dedicated to mammals, contains 49 different lemmas. Of these lemmas, three regard...  Read More >>

English Loan Translations in Polish: Word-formation Patterns, Lexicalization, Idiomaticity and Institutionalization

English Loan Translations in Polish: Word-formation...

Author: Łucja Biel ,  Alicja Witalisz
ISBN: 9783631663608
Format: Hardback
$177.24

This book on language contact explores word-formation patterns, lexicalization, idiomaticity and institutionalization...  Read More >>

The affinity between Friulian and Romanian: in an early publication of G. I. Ascoli

The affinity between Friulian and Romanian: in an early...

Author: Guglielmo Orlandi
ISBN: 9781503254343
Format: Paperback
$20.57

This book presents an overview of nineteenth century European linguists with an in-depth biography of Graziadio...  Read More >>

Understanding English Grammar

Understanding English Grammar

Author: Martha Kolln ,  Loretta Gray
ISBN: 9780134014180
Format: Paperback
$545.56

For courses in Advanced Grammar.   The essentials of English grammar, with a distinctively clear organization...  Read More >>

Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia, Volume III: Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Style

Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia, Volume...

Author: Clive Holes
ISBN: 9789004302631
Format: Hardback
$615.12

The aim of Dialect, Culture and Society in Eastern Arabia is to give a detailed description of the Arabic dialects...  Read More >>

The First English Dictionary of Slang 1699

The First English Dictionary of Slang 1699

Author: 'B.E. Gent' ,  John Simpson
ISBN: 9781851243877
Format: Paperback
$23.26

The first work dedicated solely to the subject of slang words and their meanings, this book is a lost gem originally...  Read More >>

Iconicity and Analogy in Language Change: The Development of Double Object Clitic Clusters from Medieval Florentine to Modern Italian

Iconicity and Analogy in Language Change: The Development...

Author: Janice Aski ,  Cinzia Russi
ISBN: 9781614517528
Format: Hardback
$205.83

Examines the alternation between accusative-dative and dative-accusative order in Old Florentine clitic clusters...  Read More >>

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