Historical & comparative linguistics books

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

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

Author: John Pollack ,  Sean Pratt
ISBN: 9798200618507
Format: Audio
$121.31

A presidential speechwriter for Bill Clinton explores the hidden power of analogy to fuel thought, connect ideas,...  Read More >>

How to Speak Brit: The Quintessential Guide to the King's English, Cockney Slang, and Other Flummoxing British Phrases

How to Speak Brit: The Quintessential Guide to the King's...

Author: Christopher J. Moore
ISBN: 9781592408986
Format: Hardback
$63.36

Copyright 2014 in London by Elwin Street Productions.  Read More >>

The Origin and Philosophy of Language

The Origin and Philosophy of Language

Author: Ludwig Noire
ISBN: 9781502325204
Format: Paperback
$21.09

The origin and philosophy of language (1917). This book, The origin and philosophy of language, by Ludwig Noire,...  Read More >>

Quantifying Language Dynamics: On the Cutting edge of Areal and Phylogenetic Linguistics

Quantifying Language Dynamics: On the Cutting edge of...

Author: Soren Wichmann ,  Jeff Good
ISBN: 9789004281318
Format: Paperback
$203.28

Drawing upon data from the phonologies, morphologies, numeral systems, constituent orders, case systems, and lexicons...  Read More >>

The Colourful Biography of Chinese Characters, Volume 2: The Complete Book of Chinese Characters with Their Stories in Colour, Volume 2

The Colourful Biography of Chinese Characters, Volume...

Author: S W Well
ISBN: 9780692292990
Format: Paperback
$234.83

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Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics

Author: Thomas Wright
ISBN: 9781108075213
Format: Mixed media product
$173.36

A respected folklorist and medievalist, Thomas Wright (1810-77) wrote prolifically on a wide range of subjects....  Read More >>

From Sound to Meaning in Context: Studies in Honour of Piotr Ruszkiewicz

From Sound to Meaning in Context: Studies in Honour...

Author: Alicja Witalisz
ISBN: 9783631642139
Format: Hardback
$127.56

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The Latest and Best Bible Translation--Yours! How to Translate the Bible Yourself So You Can Experience the Divine Power of the Deity in His Original

The Latest and Best Bible Translation--Yours! How to...

Author: Albert E Potts
ISBN: 9781432798383
Format: Hardback
$97.55

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Constructions and Environments: Copular, Passive, and Related Constructions in Old and Middle English

Constructions and Environments: Copular, Passive, and...

Author: Peter Petré (Postdoctoral Fellow, Postdoctoral Fellow, KU Leuven)
ISBN: 9780199373390
Format: Hardback
$179.95

This book describes and analyzes various changes in the distribution of copular and passive verb constructions in...  Read More >>

Learn New Testament Greek

Learn New Testament Greek

Author: John H. Dobson
ISBN: 9780801017261
Format: Paperback
$105.60

A comprehensive introduction and study guide to New Testament Greek.  Read More >>

Learn Biblical Hebrew

Learn Biblical Hebrew

Author: John H. Dobson
ISBN: 9780801097423
Format: Paperback
$105.60

A comprehensive introduction and study guide to biblical Hebrew.  Read More >>

The Old Greek of Isaiah: An Analysis of Its Pluses and Minuses

The Old Greek of Isaiah: An Analysis of Its Pluses and...

Author: Mirjam Van Der Vorm-Croughs
ISBN: 9781589839793
Format: Hardback
$258.72

This study tabulates, classifies, and analyzes the verses of the Septuagint translation of Isaiah where material...  Read More >>

Morphosyntax of the Noun Phrase in Hieroglyphic Luwian

Morphosyntax of the Noun Phrase in Hieroglyphic Luwian...

Author: Anna Bauer
ISBN: 9789004260023
Format: Hardback
$588.72

In this book, Anna H. Bauer provides a full and detailed analysis of the noun phrases found in the Hieroglyphic...  Read More >>

Studies in Matthew's Gospel: Literary Design, Intertextuality, and Social Setting

Studies in Matthew's Gospel: Literary Design, Intertextuality,...

Author: W.J.C. Weren
ISBN: 9789004254954
Format: Hardback
$528.00

These essays concentrate on structures and meanings in textual units from Matthew’s Gospel. New tools are developed...  Read More >>

The History of Tense/Aspect/Mood/Voice in the Mayan Verbal Complex

The History of Tense/Aspect/Mood/Voice in the Mayan...

Author: John S. Robertson
ISBN: 9780292769588
Format: Paperback
$46.95

In this pathfinding study of the Mayan language family, John S. Robertson explores major changes that have occurred...  Read More >>

Sprachen und Normen im Wandel

Sprachen und Normen im Wandel

Author: Georgia Veldre-Gerner ,  Sylvia Thiele
ISBN: 9783838204611
Format: Paperback
$105.60

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Learner corpus profiles: The case of Romanian Learner English

Learner corpus profiles: The case of Romanian Learner...

Author: Maurizio Gotti ,  Madalina Chitez
ISBN: 9783034314107
Format: Paperback
$177.24

Aiming at exemplifying the methodology of learner corpus profiling, this book describes salient features of Romanian...  Read More >>

Sadness Expressions in English and Chinese: Corpus Linguistic Contrastive Semantic Analysis

Sadness Expressions in English and Chinese: Corpus Linguistic...

Author: Ruihua Zhang (Tianjin University of Science and Technology, China)
ISBN: 9781472510662
Format: Hardback
$260.00

Winner of the Tianjin Social Science Outstanding Achievement Award. This book reports on the contrastive-semantic...  Read More >>

Types of Reduplication: A Case Study of Bikol

Types of Reduplication: A Case Study of Bikol

Author: Veronika Mattes
ISBN: 9783110362978
Format: Hardback
$525.33

The book systematically discusses the formal and functional properties as well as the rules of the manifold productive...  Read More >>

Termcraft: The Emergence of Terminology Science from the Vincans and Sumerians to Aristotle

Termcraft: The Emergence of Terminology Science from...

Author: J L F Lambert ,  Darwin Colleg Dr L G Kelly Cambridge
ISBN: 9781460216668
Format: Paperback
$333.76

Termcraft is a world-heritage story. It chronicles the origins of naming, writing, and reasoning through the prisms...  Read More >>

European Francophonie: The Social, Political and Cultural History of an International Prestige Language

European Francophonie: The Social, Political and Cultural...

Author: Stephan Elspaß ,  Nils Langer
ISBN: 9783034317030
Format: Paperback
$207.26

This volume examines the use of French in European language communities outside France from the Middle Ages to the...  Read More >>

Micro-Syntactic Variation in North American English

Micro-Syntactic Variation in North American English...

Author: Raffaella Zanuttini (, Yale University) ,  Laurence Horn (, Yale University)
ISBN: 9780199367214
Format: Paperback
$97.95

Comparative work on linguistic varieties that are overall very similar can help us determine where and how exactly...  Read More >>

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