Historical & comparative linguistics books

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Speaking Our Minds: Why human communication is different, and how language evolved to make it special

Speaking Our Minds: Why human communication is different,...
Author: Thom Scott-Phillips (Durham Univ, Durham) ISBN: 9781137334572 Format: Hardback	$240.00
Fascinating and original, Scott-Phillips presents a novel thesis explaining the origins and evolution of language... Read More >>

Damn!: A Cultural History of Swearing in Modern America

Damn!: A Cultural History of Swearing in Modern America...
Author: Rob Chirico , Keith Allan ISBN: 9781939578204 Format: Paperback	$39.47
Swearing, cussing, or cursing, out of anger, excitement, or just because, is something most of us do, at least to... Read More >>

Signless Signification in Ancient India and Beyond

Signless Signification in Ancient India and Beyond
Author: Tiziana Pontillo , Maria Piera Candotti ISBN: 9781783083329 Format: Paperback	$40.00
The collection of interdisciplinary essays in this book examines the speculative, linguistic, literary and artistic... Read More >>

A Grammar of Egyptian Aramaic, Second Revised Edition

A Grammar of Egyptian Aramaic, Second Revised Edition...
Author: Takamitsu Muraoka , Bezalel Porten (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) ISBN: 9781628370379 Format: Paperback	$163.68
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New Testament Textual Criticism: The Application of Thoroughgoing Principles, Essays on Manuscripts and Textual Variation

New Testament Textual Criticism: The Application of...
Author: J K Elliott (University of Leeds) ISBN: 9781628370287 Format: Paperback	$216.48
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Perspectives on Philippine Languages: Five Centuries of European Scholarship

Perspectives on Philippine Languages: Five Centuries...
Author: Marlies S. Salazar , Marlies Spiecker-Salazar ISBN: 9789715506496 Format: Paperback	$131.96
The first comprehensive history of European studies on Philippine languages, this book gives a synoptic view of... Read More >>

Language, Identity and Urban Space: The Language Use of Latin American Migrants

Language, Identity and Urban Space: The Language Use...
Author: Tabea Salzmann ISBN: 9783631652251 Format: Hardback	$180.48
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The Regional Diversification of Latin 200 BC - AD 600

The Regional Diversification of Latin 200 BC - AD 600...
Author: J. N. Adams (University of Oxford) ISBN: 9781107684584 Format: Paperback	$103.50
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An Elementary Grammar with Full Syllabary and Progresssive Reading Book, of the Assyrian Language, in the Cuneiform Type

An Elementary Grammar with Full Syllabary and Progresssive...
Author: Archibald Henry Sayce ISBN: 9781108077958 Format: Paperback	$49.16
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Lectures upon the Assyrian Language and Syllabary: Delivered to Students of the Archaic Classes

Lectures upon the Assyrian Language and Syllabary: Delivered...
Author: Archibald Henry Sayce ISBN: 9781108077750 Format: Paperback	$62.10
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An Assyrian Grammar: For Comparative Purposes

An Assyrian Grammar: For Comparative Purposes
Author: Archibald Henry Sayce ISBN: 9781108077927 Format: Paperback	$64.69
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The Dean Burgon Society Messages 2014

The Dean Burgon Society Messages 2014
Author: Dr D A Waite ISBN: 9781568480886 Format: Paperback	$39.60
This book is number 24 in a series that is composed of messages delivered at the Dean Burgon Society's 36th Annual... Read More >>

Competing Motivations in Grammar and Usage

Competing Motivations in Grammar and Usage
Author: Brian MacWhinney (Professor of Psychology, Professor of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University) , Andrej Malchukov (Senior Researcher, Senior Researcher, Institute for Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences) ISBN: 9780198709848 Format: Hardback	$267.95
This volume examines the conflicting factors that shape the content and form of grammatical rules in language, which... Read More >>

The Development of Old English

The Development of Old English
Author: Don Ringe (Kahn Term Professor in Linguistics, Kahn Term Professor in Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania) , Ann Taylor (Senior Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, University of York) ISBN: 9780199207848 Format: Hardback	$328.95
This book, the second volume in A Linguistic History of English, describes the development of Old English from Proto-Germanic.... Read More >>

Teaching About Dialect Variations and Language in Secondary English Classrooms: Power, Prestige, and Prejudice

Teaching About Dialect Variations and Language in Secondary...
Author: Michelle D. Devereaux (Kennesaw State University, USA) ISBN: 9780415818469 Format: Paperback	$116.00
Offering resources for secondary English teaching that respect students’ language varieties as strengths on which... Read More >>

Arabic Indefinites, Interrogatives, and Negators: A Linguistic History of Western Dialects

Arabic Indefinites, Interrogatives, and Negators: A...
Author: David Wilmsen (Professor of Arabic, Professor of Arabic, The American University of Beirut) ISBN: 9780198718123 Format: Hardback	$277.00
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Deubede - Torte

Deubede - Torte
Author: Oskar Reichmann ISBN: 9783110347463 Format: Paperback	$512.13
The Early New High German Dictionary is an alphabetically-ordered dictionary of the varieties of High German from... Read More >>

Endangered Languages: Beliefs and Ideologies in Language Documentation and Revitalization

Endangered Languages: Beliefs and Ideologies in Language...
Author: Peter K. Austin (Märit Rausing Chair in Field Linguistics, SOAS University of London) , Julia Sallabank (Senior Lecturer in Language Support and Revitalization,, SOAS University of London) ISBN: 9780197265765 Format: Hardback	$232.88
Minority languages are abandoned as people switch to larger languages and governments promote linguistic unity.... Read More >>

Language, Immigration and Labor: Negotiating Work in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

Language, Immigration and Labor: Negotiating Work in...
Author: E. DuBord ISBN: 9781137301017 Format: Hardback	$290.37
This book explores dominant ideologies about citizenship, nation, and language that frame the everyday lives of... Read More >>

Die Stellung Der Deutschen Sprache in Der Welt

Die Stellung Der Deutschen Sprache in Der Welt
Author: Ulrich Ammon (Universitat Duisburg-Essen) ISBN: 9783110192988 Format: Hardback	$327.36
Das vorliegende Buch liefert einen breiten und fundierten Überblick über die Stellung der deutschen Sprache in der... Read More >>

The Story of English Speech: A Sketch of the Origin and Development of the English Language, with Tables Showing Some of the More Important Grammatical Forms of the Three Great Periods, and Specimens of the Literature from Caedmon to Shakespeare

The Story of English Speech: A Sketch of the Origin...
Author: Professor of Political Science Charles Noble (California State University, Long Beach) ISBN: 9781503384088 Format: Paperback	$29.01
This is a masterly and at the same time compact history of how the English language came to be, and the process... Read More >>

Learning about God from His Attributes and Names

Learning about God from His Attributes and Names
Author: James Thomas Lee, Jr ISBN: 9781503325401 Format: Paperback	$28.51
"The Hebrew word, 'elohiym, for ""God"" was used at least two thousand six hundred and six times in the Old Testament.... Read More >>

The Diachrony of Negation

The Diachrony of Negation
Author: Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen (The University of Manchester) , Jacqueline Visconti (University of Genoa) ISBN: 9789027259257 Format: Hardback	$207.00
Despite intensive research, negation remains elusive. Its expression across languages, its underlying cognitive... Read More >>

LXX Isaiah 24: 1-26:6 as Interpretation and Translation: A Methodological Discussion

LXX Isaiah 24: 1-26:6 as Interpretation and Translation:...
Author: Wilson de Angelo Cunha ISBN: 9781628370225 Format: Paperback	$92.40
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LXX Isaiah 24: 1-26:6 as Interpretation and Translation: A Methodological Discussion

LXX Isaiah 24: 1-26:6 as Interpretation and Translation:...
Author: Wilson de Angelo Cunha ISBN: 9781628370249 Format: Hardback	$132.00
This work demonstrates that LXX Isa 24:126:6 can be seen as a coherent ideological composition differing greatly... Read More >>

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