Historical & comparative linguistics books

Speaking American shows what the English language looked like from various points on the American continent at crucial...  Read More >>

The New Cockney provides a sociolinguistic account of speech variation among adolescents in the 'traditional' East...  Read More >>

First published in 1987, the Dictionary of Jargon expands on its predecessor Newspeak (Routledge Revivals, 2014)...  Read More >>

Language endangerment is a fundamental issue for humanity. This volume comprises a general overview introduction,...  Read More >>

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Encounter with logos, Japanese, Nahuatl and Egyptian are similar languages. Written and author by Erik De La Torre...  Read More >>

Provides an introduction to the study of English linguistics and focuses on linguistic analysis and argumentation....  Read More >>

Examining the morphosyntax of dialetics comprising Italy, Corsica and the Italian and Romantic-speaking areas of...  Read More >>

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A Slovenian citizen of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Franz Miklosich (1813–91) extended the comparative method of...  Read More >>

A Slovenian citizen of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Franz Miklosich (1813–91) extended the comparative method of...  Read More >>

A Slovenian citizen of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Franz Miklosich (1813–91) extended the comparative method of...  Read More >>

A Slovenian citizen of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Franz Miklosich (1813–91) extended the comparative method of...  Read More >>

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This book examines the current use of diacritical marks in Western Europe, such as the use of names from Slavic...  Read More >>

这本小书，带领你走进奇妙的成语世界。它将告诉你成语的形式、成语的结构、成语的修辞、成语的魅力、成语的来源，帮助你解读成语的趣味性、文学性、知识性、哲理性、思想性，帮助你澄清容易读错、写错、用错的成语。你会发现，成语世界是巨大的知识宝库，不愧是中华传统文化中的无价瑰宝。书里还给你介绍五花八门的成语游戏，可供你玩味，供语文教学和语文竞赛选用。希望这本小书能使你深切地感受到成语世界的博大精深和无穷意蕴。...  Read More >>

Kerstin Kallass untersucht erstmals systematisch die heterogenen Prozesse des gemeinschaftlichen Schreibens in der...  Read More >>

An outgrowth of the LAVIS III symposium (2004), New Perspectives on Language Variety in the South: Historical and...  Read More >>

Provides an analysis on locative structures in Nigerian Pidgin and Ghanaian Pidgin English and compares those structures...  Read More >>

Discusses the constructions used in Belarusian and Lithuanian to express predicative Possession.  Read More >>

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Comprises a presentation of the state of the art in word-formation. This book contains 74 portraits of word-formation...  Read More >>