Historical & comparative linguistics books

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Bad English: A History of Linguistic Aggravation

Bad English: A History of Linguistic Aggravation
Author: Ammon Shea , Mike Chamberlain ISBN: 9798200035120 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 >>

Interviews with Neville Alexander: The Power of Languages Against the Language of Power

Interviews with Neville Alexander: The Power of Languages...
Author: Brigitta Busch , Lucijan Busch ISBN: 9781869142773 Format: Paperback	$77.00
In a series of interviews conducted in the years preceding his death in 2012, activist and scholar Neville Alexander... Read More >>

The Synonyms of «Fallen Woman» in the History of the English Language

The Synonyms of «Fallen Woman» in the History of the...
Author: Jacek Fisiak , Bozena Duda ISBN: 9783631644508 Format: Hardback	$140.37
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Evaluating Cartesian Linguistics: From Historical Antecedents to Computational Modeling

Evaluating Cartesian Linguistics: From Historical Antecedents...
Author: Christina Behme ISBN: 9783631645512 Format: Hardback	$127.56
The book evaluates Noam Chomsky’s contributions to linguistics and focuses on the historic justification for Cartesian... Read More >>

Syntactic Dislocation in English Congregational Song between 1500 and 1900: A Corpus-based Study

Syntactic Dislocation in English Congregational Song...
Author: Kirsten Gather ISBN: 9783631645901 Format: Hardback	$150.46
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Cognitive and Pragmatic Aspects of Speech Actions

Cognitive and Pragmatic Aspects of Speech Actions
Author: Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk , Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka ISBN: 9783631641569 Format: Hardback	$157.06
The volume contains papers focused on speech actions. The contributors analyse actional language integrating varied... Read More >>

Creole Renegades: Rhetoric of Betrayal and Guilt in the Caribbean Diaspora

Creole Renegades: Rhetoric of Betrayal and Guilt in...
Author: Bénédicte Boisseron , Baenaedicte Boisseron ISBN: 9780813049793 Format: Hardback	$151.80
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Writing from the Margins of Europe: The Application of Postcolonial Theories to Selected Works by William Butler Yeats, John Millington Synge and James Joyce

Writing from the Margins of Europe: The Application...
Author: Rachael Sumner ISBN: 9783631650509 Format: Hardback	$157.06
Writing from the Margins of Europe assesses the potential for postcolonial analysis of works by W. B. Yeats, J.... Read More >>

A Prehistory of Western North America: The Impact of Uto-Aztecan Languages

A Prehistory of Western North America: The Impact of...
Author: David Leedom Shaul , Scott G Ortman ISBN: 9780826354808 Format: Hardback	$150.00
This book offers a new approach to the use of linguistic data to reconstruct prehistory. The author shows how a... Read More >>

What Jesus Heard: A Guide to Biblical Hebrew for the Bible Reader

What Jesus Heard: A Guide to Biblical Hebrew for the...
Author: Bc Crothers ISBN: 9781500708504 Format: Paperback	$52.67
Find out more and see a video at http: //www.bccrothers.com/what-jesus-heard I have read this work with delight.... Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics

The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics
Author: Claire Bowern (Yale University, USA) , Bethwyn Evans (Australian National University) ISBN: 9780415527897 Format: Hardback	$462.00
The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics provides a survey of the field covering the methods which underpin... Read More >>

The Social Origins of Language

The Social Origins of Language
Author: Daniel Dor (Senior Lecturer in Communication, Senior Lecturer in Communication, Tel Aviv University) , Chris Knight ISBN: 9780199665334 Format: Paperback	$114.95
This book presents a new perspective on the origins of language, and highlights the key role of social and cultural... Read More >>

The Syntax of Mauritian Creole

The Syntax of Mauritian Creole
Author: Dr Anand Syea ISBN: 9781472575869 Format: Paperback	$76.99
A detailed study of different aspects of the syntax of Mauritian creole within a Chomksyan theoretical framework... Read More >>

Diachrony and Synchrony in English Corpus Linguistics

Diachrony and Synchrony in English Corpus Linguistics...
Author: Maurizio Gotti , Alejandro Alcaraz Sintes ISBN: 9783034313261 Format: Paperback	$237.53
The book brings together current research on the description of English using a range of corpora. It consists of... Read More >>

The Social Origins of Language

The Social Origins of Language
Author: Daniel Dor (Senior Lecturer in Communication, Senior Lecturer in Communication, Tel Aviv University) , Chris Knight ISBN: 9780199665327 Format: Hardback	$302.00
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Expressions of Time in Ancient Greek

Expressions of Time in Ancient Greek
Author: Coulter H. George (University of Virginia) ISBN: 9781107003941 Format: Hardback	$372.24
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Applied Linguists Needed: Cross-disciplinary Networking in Endangered Language Contexts

Applied Linguists Needed: Cross-disciplinary Networking...
Author: Lida Cope (East Carolina University, USA) ISBN: 9781138807204 Format: Paperback	$112.00
It is a fact that the world’s languages are dying at an alarming rate. This comprehensive volume aspires to raise... Read More >>

Short, Shorter, Shortest

Short, Shorter, Shortest
Author: Rebecca Felix ISBN: 9781607535751 Format: Hardback	$71.54
Introduces differences in length and height by comparing dog breeds and their features, such as legs, ears, and... Read More >>

Big, Bigger, Biggest

Big, Bigger, Biggest
Author: Rebecca Felix ISBN: 9781607535744 Format: Hardback	$71.54
Introduces differences in size by comparing groups of big animals, such as big turtles, wildcats, and ocean creatures.... Read More >>

Long, Longer, Longest

Long, Longer, Longest
Author: Rebecca Felix ISBN: 9781607535775 Format: Hardback	$71.54
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Small, Smaller, Smallest

Small, Smaller, Smallest
Author: Rebecca Felix ISBN: 9781607535782 Format: Hardback	$82.90
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Heavy, Heavier, Heaviest

Heavy, Heavier, Heaviest
Author: Rebecca Felix ISBN: 9781607535768 Format: Hardback	$71.54
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Tall, Taller, Tallest

Tall, Taller, Tallest
Author: Rebecca Felix ISBN: 9781607535799 Format: Hardback	$71.54
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The Body in Language: Comparative Studies of Linguistic Embodiment

The Body in Language: Comparative Studies of Linguistic...
Author: Matthias Brenzinger , Iwona Kraska-Szlenk ISBN: 9789004274280 Format: Hardback	$528.00
The Body in Language provides theoretical reflections on grammaticalization, lexical semantics, philosophy, multimodal... Read More >>

Being of Two Minds: The Vertical Split in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy

Being of Two Minds: The Vertical Split in Psychoanalysis...
Author: Arnold I. Goldberg (Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, Illinois, USA) ISBN: 9781138005501 Format: Paperback	$94.99
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