Historical & comparative linguistics books

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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 >>

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: 9781460216651 Format: Hardback	$452.79
Termcraft is a world-heritage story. It chronicles the origins of naming, writing, and reasoning through the prisms... 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: 9780199367221 Format: Hardback	$261.95
Comparative work on linguistic varieties that are overall very similar can help us determine where and how exactly... Read More >>

The Grammar of Names in Anglo-Saxon England: The Linguistics and Culture of the Old English Onomasticon

The Grammar of Names in Anglo-Saxon England: The Linguistics...
Author: Fran Colman ISBN: 9780198701675 Format: Hardback	$252.00
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Rethinking East Asian Languages, Vernaculars, and Literacies, 1000–1919

Rethinking East Asian Languages, Vernaculars, and Literacies,...
Author: Benjamin Elman ISBN: 9789004277595 Format: Hardback	$485.76
This volume presents a new conceptual framework that recognizes that in East Asia the literary and vernacular registers... Read More >>

Questioning Language Contact: Limits of Contact, Contact at its Limits

Questioning Language Contact: Limits of Contact, Contact...
Author: Robert Nicolaï ISBN: 9789004279049 Format: Hardback	$570.24
The study of language contact is considered a worthwhile scientific pursuit. Now that it is becoming increasingly... Read More >>

Collected Articles of the 3rd International Linguistics Conference (Taganrog, Russia)

Collected Articles of the 3rd International Linguistics...
Author: Tatiana G. Klikushina , Tatiana G. Klikushina ISBN: 9781443856355 Format: Hardback	$248.03
This book is a collection of articles in English, German and French which were presented at the 3rd International... Read More >>

Ins Undeudsche Gebracht: Sprachgebrauch Und Übersetzungsverfahren Im Altpreußischen ""Kleinen Katechismus""


Author: Pietro U Dini, Of (University of Pisa) ISBN: 9783110347890 Format: Hardback	$464.61
Die Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen sind das wichtigste wissenschaftliche Publikationsorgan... Read More >>

Contrastive Linguistics: History, Philosophy and Methodology

Contrastive Linguistics: History, Philosophy and Methodology...
Author: Pan Wenguo , Tham Wai Mun ISBN: 9780567507273 Format: Paperback	$76.99
Focuses on the histories and principles of comparing and contrasting Chinese and Western languages, specifically... Read More >>

English in Kenya or Kenyan English?

English in Kenya or Kenyan English?
Author: Natalia Budohoska ISBN: 9783631643990 Format: Hardback	$110.36
Is Kenyan English a new postcolonial variety of English developing in a multilingual environment of permanent language... Read More >>

Vietnam War Slang: A Dictionary on Historical Principles

Vietnam War Slang: A Dictionary on Historical Principles...
Author: Tom Dalzell ISBN: 9780415839402 Format: Hardback	$305.00
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Vietnam War Slang: A Dictionary on Historical Principles

Vietnam War Slang: A Dictionary on Historical Principles...
Author: Tom Dalzell ISBN: 9780415839419 Format: Paperback	$79.99
This dictionary presents the definitive record of the lexicon of Americans who fought in the Vietnam war. Read More >>

Psycholinguistic Approaches to Meaning and Understanding across Languages

Psycholinguistic Approaches to Meaning and Understanding...
Author: Barbara Hemforth , Barbara Mertins ISBN: 9783319056746 Format: Hardback	$232.85
Reports on joint work by researchers from different theoretical and linguistic backgrounds offer new insights on... Read More >>

Discourse Functions at the Left and Right Periphery: Crosslinguistic Investigations of Language Use and Language Change

Discourse Functions at the Left and Right Periphery:...
Author: Kate Beeching , Ulrich Detges ISBN: 9789004274808 Format: Hardback	$528.00
This volume tests the hypothesis that elements at the left periphery of discourse units have mainly subjective and... Read More >>

Language and Meaning in the Renaissance

Language and Meaning in the Renaissance
Author: Richard Waswo ISBN: 9780691609782 Format: Paperback	$82.99
Exploring the status of the semantic unit in recent linguistic and literary theories--the sign itself--Richard Waswo... Read More >>

Pre-Greek: Phonology, Morphology, Lexicon

Pre-Greek: Phonology, Morphology, Lexicon
Author: Robert Beekes ISBN: 9789004279384 Format: Paperback	$155.76
Robert Beekes collects and analyzes the evidence for Pre-Greek, the non-Indo-European language which disappeared... Read More >>

Grammar of Septuagint Greek

Grammar of Septuagint Greek
Author: F C Cornybeare , St George Stock ISBN: 9781498200912 Format: Paperback	$84.48
Not only an indispensable reference resource, ""Grammar of Septuagint Greek"" is also an ideal reader for anyone... Read More >>

Early Modern English Dialogues: Spoken Interaction as Writing

Early Modern English Dialogues: Spoken Interaction as...
Author: Jonathan Culpeper (Lancaster University) , Merja Kytö (Uppsala Universitet, Sweden) ISBN: 9781107421158 Format: Paperback	$113.85
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Usage-Based Approaches to Language Change

Usage-Based Approaches to Language Change
Author: Evie Coussé (University of Gothenburg) , Ferdinand von Mengden (Freie Universität Berlin) ISBN: 9789027215796 Format: Hardback	$214.76
Usage-based approaches to language have gained increasing attention in the last two decades. The importance of change... Read More >>

Sayings, Proverbs, and Humour of Ulster

Sayings, Proverbs, and Humour of Ulster
Author: John William Byers ISBN: 9780954306380 Format: Paperback	$26.37
Sir John William Byers (1853-1920) was an eminent medical professional who had a passion for Ulster language and... Read More >>

Corpus-Based Contrastive Studies of English and Chinese

Corpus-Based Contrastive Studies of English and Chinese...
Author: Tony McEnery (University of Lancaster, UK) , Richard Xiao (University of Lancaster, UK) ISBN: 9781138809758 Format: Paperback	$118.00
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Itialian Riveduta Old Testament

Itialian Riveduta Old Testament
Author: American Bible Society ISBN: 9781941449523 Format: Paperback	$184.77
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Bad English: A History of Linguistic Aggravation

Bad English: A History of Linguistic Aggravation
Author: Ammon Shea , Mike Chamberlain ISBN: 9798200035113 Format: Audio	$44.85
The author of Reading the OED presents an eye-opening look at language mistakes and how they came to be accepted... Read More >>

Bad English: A History of Linguistic Aggravation

Bad English: A History of Linguistic Aggravation
Author: Ammon Shea , Mike Chamberlain ISBN: 9798200035106 Format: Audio	$44.85
The author of Reading the OED presents an eye-opening look at language mistakes and how they came to be accepted... Read More >>

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