Historical & comparative linguistics books

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Super Safari Level 2 Pupil's Book with DVD-ROM Fahasa Edition

Super Safari Level 2 Pupil's Book with DVD-ROM Fahasa...
Author: Herbert Puchta (Padagogische Akademie Graz Austria) , Gunter Gerngross (Padagogische Akademie Graz Austria) ISBN: 9781316509890 Format: Mixed media product	$19.80
Super Safari British English edition is a three-level pre-primary course that welcomes very young children to English... Read More >>

An Elementary Grammar of the Japanese Language with Easy Progressive Exercises

An Elementary Grammar of the Japanese Language with...
Author: Tatui Baba ISBN: 9781297764875 Format: Hardback	$60.59
Originally published: London: Tr'ubner, 1888. Read More >>

Significant Etymology: Or, Roots, Stems, and Branches of the English Language

Significant Etymology: Or, Roots, Stems, and Branches...
Author: James Mitchell ISBN: 9781298695338 Format: Hardback	$59.38
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization... Read More >>

A Pocket Lexicon to the Greek New Testament

A Pocket Lexicon to the Greek New Testament
Author: Alexander Souter ISBN: 9781298520920 Format: Hardback	$71.15
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization... Read More >>

The Theory and Practice of Creole Grammar

The Theory and Practice of Creole Grammar
Author: J J Thomas ISBN: 9781296545932 Format: Hardback	$63.23
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A Political History of Spanish: The Making of a Language

A Political History of Spanish: The Making of a Language...
Author: José Del Valle (City University of New York) ISBN: 9781107533653 Format: Paperback	$98.32
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Gendered Words: Sentiments and Expression in Changing Rural China

Gendered Words: Sentiments and Expression in Changing...
Author: Fei-wen Liu (Associate Research Fellow and Museum Curator, Associate Research Fellow and Museum Curator, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica) ISBN: 9780190210403 Format: Hardback	$297.00
Built on twenty years of fieldwork in rural Jiangyong of Hunan Province in south China, this book explores the world's... Read More >>

Colloquial German 2: The Next Step in Language Learning

Colloquial German 2: The Next Step in Language Learning...
Author: Annette Duensing (Open University, UK) , Carolyn Batstone (The Open University, UK) ISBN: 9781138958326 Format: Paperback	$64.99
First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Read More >>

The Foundations of Arabic Linguistics II: Kitāb Sībawayhi: Interpretation and transmission

The Foundations of Arabic Linguistics II: Kitāb Sībawayhi:...
Author: Amal E. Marogy , Kees Versteegh ISBN: 9789004302297 Format: Hardback	$438.24
The Foundations of Arabic Linguistics II contains eleven studies of grammatical theories in Sibawayhi's Kitāb (end... Read More >>

The Word at War: World War Two in 100 Phrases

The Word at War: World War Two in 100 Phrases
Author: Peter Lewis , Mr Philip Gooden ISBN: 9781472922489 Format: Paperback	$19.99
War words have embedded themselves in our collective psyche; British politicians are fond of invoking the ‘Dunkirk... Read More >>

Vowel Length From Latin to Romance

Vowel Length From Latin to Romance
Author: Michele Loporcaro (Professor of Romance Languages, Professor of Romance Languages, University of Zurich) ISBN: 9780199656554 Format: Hardback	$252.00
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The Oxford Handbook of Inflection

The Oxford Handbook of Inflection
Author: Matthew Baerman (Senior Research Fellow in the Surrey Morphology Group, Senior Research Fellow in the Surrey Morphology Group, University of Surrey) ISBN: 9780199591428 Format: Hardback	$293.00
This handbook provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art overview of work on inflection - the expression of grammatical... Read More >>

Changes Between the Lines: Diachronic contact phenomena in written Pennsylvania German

Changes Between the Lines: Diachronic contact phenomena...
Author: Doris Stolberg ISBN: 9783110339338 Format: Hardback	$205.83
The book examines the diachronic dimension of contact-induced language change in Pennsylvania German (PG), a variety... Read More >>

Hermann Paul's 'Principles of Language History' Revisited: Translations and Reflections

Hermann Paul's 'Principles of Language History' Revisited:...
Author: Paul J. Hopper , Robert W. Murray ISBN: 9783110347470 Format: Hardback	$493.65
Hermann Paul's Prinzipien der Sprachgeschichte served as the most important codification and development of Neogrammarian... Read More >>

The Languages of the Kimberley, Western Australia

The Languages of the Kimberley, Western Australia
Author: William B. McGregor ISBN: 9780415859950 Format: Paperback	$96.99
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Rethinking East Asian Languages, Vernaculars, and Literacies, 1000–1919

Rethinking East Asian Languages, Vernaculars, and Literacies,...
Author: Benjamin Elman ISBN: 9789004305953 Format: Paperback	$147.84
This volume presents a new conceptual framework that recognizes that in East Asia the literary and vernacular registers... Read More >>

A History of the French Language

A History of the French Language
Author: Peter Rickard ISBN: 9781138835016 Format: Hardback	$305.00
Incorporating a description of the Vulgar Latin spoken in Gaul, and the earliest recorded forms of French, the development... Read More >>

Vice Slang

Vice Slang
Author: Tom Dalzell , Terry Victor ISBN: 9781138834996 Format: Hardback	$305.00
Vice Slang gently eases you into the language of gambling, drugs and alcohol, providing you with 3,000 words to... Read More >>

Past, Present and Future of a Language Border: Germanic-Romance Encounters in the Low Countries

Past, Present and Future of a Language Border: Germanic-Romance...
Author: Catharina Peersman , Gijsbert Rutten ISBN: 9781614515838 Format: Hardback	$403.89
This volume revisits the issue of language contact and conflict in the Low Countries across space and time. The... Read More >>

Variation in Language: System- and Usage-based Approaches

Variation in Language: System- and Usage-based Approaches...
Author: Aria Adli , Marco García García ISBN: 9783110343557 Format: Hardback	$493.65
Where is the locus of language variation? In the grammar, outside the grammar or somewhere in between? Taking up... Read More >>

Die Entwicklung der Fremdwortschreibung im 19. Jahrhundert

Die Entwicklung der Fremdwortschreibung im 19. Jahrhundert...
Author: Anne Zastrow ISBN: 9783110401462 Format: Hardback	$248.73
As words and word formation units are adopted from other languages, a process of naturalization begins. This study... Read More >>

Alphabet or Abracadabra? Reverse Engineering the Western Alphabet


Author: Wim Borsboom ISBN: 9781460262306 Format: Paperback	$52.77
Alphabet or... Read More >>

Alphabet or Abracadabra? Reverse Engineering the Western Alphabet


Author: Wim Borsboom ISBN: 9781460262290 Format: Hardback	$79.17
Alphabet or... Read More >>

Impoliteness in Corpora: A Comparative Analysis of British English and Spoken Turkish

Impoliteness in Corpora: A Comparative Analysis of British...
Author: Hatice Çelebi ISBN: 9781781790700 Format: Hardback	$180.00
This book aims at devising a methodological framework to analyse impoliteness in corpora. In doing so, it tackles... Read More >>

Die Edathy-Protokolle: Was Sprache verrät: Eine psycholinguistische Sprechaktanalyse vorliegender Aussagen

Die Edathy-Protokolle: Was Sprache verrät: Eine psycholinguistische...
Author: Robert J. Feinbier ISBN: 9783658102524 Format: Paperback	$47.49
Mit den Mitteln einer psycholinguistischen Sprechaktanalyse werden in diesem Essential Aussagefragmente der Zeugen... Read More >>

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