Historical & comparative linguistics books

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Saving Our Prepositions - A Guide for the Perplexed

Saving Our Prepositions - A Guide for the Perplexed...
Author: Professor in the Department of English David Thatcher ISBN: 9781460236307 Format: Paperback	$55.41
Prepositions (words like above, from, in, of and with which relate one part of a sentence to another) are, though... Read More >>

Saving Our Prepositions - A Guide for the Perplexed

Saving Our Prepositions - A Guide for the Perplexed...
Author: Professor in the Department of English David Thatcher ISBN: 9781460236291 Format: Hardback	$92.37
Prepositions (words like above, from, in, of and with which relate one part of a sentence to another) are, though... Read More >>

Lexical Variation and Attrition in the Scottish Fishing Communities

Lexical Variation and Attrition in the Scottish Fishing...
Author: Robert McColl Millar (Reader in Linguistics, University of Aberdeen) , William Barras (Lecturer in Language and Linguistics, University of Aberdeen) ISBN: 9780748691777 Format: Hardback	$200.00
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African Languages Should Be Taught to Blacks Worldwide: Start Today and Learn Your African Ancestors Languages

African Languages Should Be Taught to Blacks Worldwide:...
Author: Dan Edward Knight Sr ISBN: 9781500395933 Format: Paperback	$789.31
WHEN WE HAVE THE UNITED STATES OF AFRICA IN FULL EFFECT WE WILL NEED TO SPEAK EACH OTHERS LANGUAGES WORLD WIDE.... Read More >>

You Can Lead a Horse to Water ...: Origins About Horse Phrases and How They Came About

You Can Lead a Horse to Water ...: Origins About Horse...
Author: Amy LaCheen Fine, Ph.D ISBN: 9780979578038 Format: Paperback	$44.75
Presents a description and derivation of horse-related words. This book begins with the earliest known usage of... Read More >>

Rhythmisch-Melodische Studien

Rhythmisch-Melodische Studien
Author: Eduard Sievers , Stefan Rieger, Att Att ISBN: 9782970082910 Format: Paperback	$47.52
Die hier unter dem Titel Rhythmisch-melodische Studien [1912] versammelten Arbeiten umfassen einen Zeitraum von... Read More >>

Japanese Syntax in Comparative Perspective

Japanese Syntax in Comparative Perspective
Author: Mamoru Saito (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, Nanzan University) ISBN: 9780199945221 Format: Paperback	$118.95
Japanese Syntax in Comparative Perspective seeks to fill a gap in the literature by examining Japanese in comparison... Read More >>

Scandinavian Object Shift and Optimality Theory

Scandinavian Object Shift and Optimality Theory
Author: E. Engels , S. Vikner ISBN: 9781137431639 Format: Hardback	$116.41
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A Comparative Study of the Melanesian Island Languages

A Comparative Study of the Melanesian Island Languages...
Author: Sidney Herbert Ray ISBN: 9781107682023 Format: Paperback	$113.82
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Japanese Syntax in Comparative Perspective

Japanese Syntax in Comparative Perspective
Author: Mamoru Saito (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, Nanzan University) ISBN: 9780199945207 Format: Hardback	$261.95
Japanese Syntax in Comparative Perspective seeks to fill a gap in the literature by examining Japanese in comparison... Read More >>

Diachrony and Dialects: Grammatical Change in the Dialects of Italy

Diachrony and Dialects: Grammatical Change in the Dialects...
Author: Paola Benincà (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, University of Padua) , Adam Ledgeway (Professor of Italian and Romance Linguistics, Professor of Italian and Romance Linguistics, University of Cambridge) ISBN: 9780198701781 Format: Hardback	$267.95
This book examines morphosyntactic variation in the Romance varieties spoken in Italy from both a regional and historical... Read More >>

Das amerikanische Spanisch

Das amerikanische Spanisch
Author: Volker Noll ISBN: 9783110340389 Format: Paperback	$34.23
Interest in the Spanish language and its regional varieties is increasing constantly. This book, aimed at students... Read More >>

Lost in the Eurofog: The Textual Fit of Translated Law

Lost in the Eurofog: The Textual Fit of Translated Law...
Author: Anna Duszak , Lucja Biel ISBN: 9783631646267 Format: Hardback	$177.24
The book examines the impact of Poland’s accession to the European Union on legal Polish. With the help of corpus-based... Read More >>

Ditransitives in British English Dialects

Ditransitives in British English Dialects
Author: Johanna Gerwin ISBN: 9783110352146 Format: Hardback	$403.89
What determines whether we say She gave him a book instead of She gave a book to him? The author views this `dative... Read More >>

A Grammatical Sketch of Hainan Cham: History, Contact, and Phonology

A Grammatical Sketch of Hainan Cham: History, Contact,...
Author: Graham Thurgood , Ela Thurgood ISBN: 9781614517344 Format: Hardback	$403.89
Presents a grammatical sketch of Hainan Cham, an endangered tonal Austronesian language. This book focuses on three... Read More >>

A Short Account of the Hebrew Tenses

A Short Account of the Hebrew Tenses
Author: R. H. Kennett ISBN: 9781107645417 Format: Paperback	$54.34
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Hybrid Identities

Hybrid Identities
Author: Flocel Sabaté ISBN: 9783034314718 Format: Paperback	$162.75
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The Bloomsbury Dictionary of Rhyming Slangs

The Bloomsbury Dictionary of Rhyming Slangs
Author: Terry Victor , Antonio Lillo ISBN: 9781623562892 Format: Hardback	$303.60
The Bloomsbury Dictionary of Rhyming Slangs provides a comprehensive and authoritative record of the variant rhyming... Read More >>

Iberian Imperialism and Language Evolution in Latin America

Iberian Imperialism and Language Evolution in Latin...
Author: Salikoko S. Mufwene ISBN: 9780226126203 Format: Paperback	$75.95
Exploring the many different contact points between Iberian colonialism and indigenous cultures, this title features... Read More >>

Iberian Imperialism and Language Evolution in Latin America

Iberian Imperialism and Language Evolution in Latin...
Author: Salikoko S. Mufwene ISBN: 9780226126173 Format: Hardback	$230.95
Exploring the many different contact points between Iberian colonialism and indigenous cultures, this book features... Read More >>

Temporality: Universals and Variation

Temporality: Universals and Variation
Author: Maria Bittner (Rutgers University, USA) ISBN: 9781405190398 Format: Paperback	$80.95
Temporality surveys the ways in which languages of different types refer to past, present, and future events, through... Read More >>

Temporality: Universals and Variation

Temporality: Universals and Variation
Author: Maria Bittner (Rutgers University, USA) ISBN: 9781405190404 Format: Hardback	$165.95
Temporality surveys the ways in which languages of different types refer to past, present, and future events, through... Read More >>

Experiential Constructions in Latin

Experiential Constructions in Latin
Author: Chiara Fedriani ISBN: 9789004257825 Format: Hardback	$432.96
This book offers a corpus-based synchronic and diachronic investigation of Experiential constructions in Latin,... Read More >>

Folk Stories and Personal Narratives in Palestinian Spoken Arabic: A Cultural and Linguistic Study

Folk Stories and Personal Narratives in Palestinian...
Author: N. Sirhan ISBN: 9781137325754 Format: Hardback	$145.17
By analysing the folk stories and personal narratives of a cross-section of Palestinians, Sirhan offers a detailed... Read More >>

The Recovery of the Ancient Hebrew Language: An Inaugural Lecture

The Recovery of the Ancient Hebrew Language: An Inaugural...
Author: David Winton Thomas ISBN: 9781107676428 Format: Paperback	$44.88
Originally published in 1939, this volume contains the text of the inaugural lecture delivered by David Winton Thomas... Read More >>

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