Historical & comparative linguistics books

Many grammatical issues of Archaic and Medieval Chinese still lack a comprehensive analysis. The book provides the...  Read More >>

This volume offers new insights into figurative language and its pervasive role as a factor of linguistic change....  Read More >>

Le Dictionnaire Étymologique Roman (DÉRom) constitue la première tentative d'étymologisation du lexique héréditaire...  Read More >>

"""Dr. Seung-Kyu Park's verse-by-verse parsing and declension guides to the Greek New Testament underlying the Authorised...  Read More >>

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Generations of student writers have been subjected to usage handbooks that proclaim, This is the correct form....  Read More >>

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A stingy man won't drink branch water till there's a flood, and it is a mighty triflin' sort o' man'd let either...  Read More >>

Introduces differences in weight by comparing heavy, heavier, and heaviest everyday objects people lift each day...  Read More >>

Trask s Historical Linguistics, Third Edition, is an accessible introduction to historical linguistics the study...  Read More >>

This book argues that the sudden decline of old rural vernaculars such as French patois, Italian dialects, and the...  Read More >>

This monograph offers the first in-depth lexical and semantic analysis of motion verbs in their development from...  Read More >>

Bring out the best in every student, enabling them to develop strong reading and writing skills with a single Student's...  Read More >>

In this pioneering exploration of African American slang - a highly informal vocabulary and a significant aspect...  Read More >>

Linguistic Variation: Confronting Fact and Theory honors Shana Poplack in bringing together contributions from leading...  Read More >>

This volume is the outcome of a workshop on Ancient Egyptian syntax held in Liege in 2011. The contributions deal...  Read More >>

Friedrich Kittler - a play - a substitute for the play - a Vadekittcum - plus the essay Infraschall (in German)...  Read More >>

She shows how Modern Greek compounding relates to derivation and inflection, and charts the boundaries between compounds...  Read More >>

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Using new data from neuroscience and evolutionary biology, an exploration of what the development of our species...  Read More >>

Fascinating and original, Scott-Phillips presents a novel thesis explaining the origins and evolution of language...  Read More >>

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