Historical & comparative linguistics books

The study concerns passive voice in Earlier Egyptian (Old and Middle Egyptian combined), providing a text-based...  Read More >>

An essential guide to grammar specifically designed for teachers of English which can be used as a course book,...  Read More >>

Chronicles the tumultuous events aboard a South Sea whaling vessel. this work is based on the author's personal...  Read More >>

By combining historiography and linguistic discourse analysis, this volume documents the productive use of transdisciplinary...  Read More >>

The fourth edition of a highly acclaimed Dictionary of Contemporary Slang this is the definitive and indispensible...  Read More >>

This book argues that major patterns of variation across languages are structured by general principles of efficiency...  Read More >>

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This book traces the development of English slang from the earliest records to the latest tweet and explores why...  Read More >>

This book explores the expression of information source, inferences, assumptions, probability and possibility, and...  Read More >>

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This book explores salient topics in Hebrew orthography, phonology, and morphology from the Dead Sea Scrolls. Short...  Read More >>

This book explores salient topics in Hebrew orthography, phonology, and morphology from the Dead Sea Scrolls. Short...  Read More >>

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What you'll find in this book are a series of passages that state, figuratively or analytically, what the world...  Read More >>

Springing from the popular and hilarious Inky Fool blog, Forsyth examines the strange and surprising connections...  Read More >>

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This book examines language and identity among White American middle and upper-middle class youth who affiliate...  Read More >>

Babel's Dawn is a saga covering six million years. Like a walk through a natural history museum, Bolles demonstrates...  Read More >>

Diskurse, die in der nichtlinguistischen Welt über Sprache geführt werden, sind typischerweise Sprachverfallsdiskurse...  Read More >>

Whilst focusing on language use, the study reveals some important truths about Daoist Zhuangzi and Chan Buddhism...  Read More >>

Die Kommunikation in der Touristik hat in der germanistischen Forschung bislang vergleichsweise wenig Beachtung...  Read More >>

Springing from the popular and hilarious Inky Fool blog, Forsyth examines the strange and surprising connections...  Read More >>

Basque is the sole survivor of the very ancient languages of Western Europe. This book, written by an internationally...  Read More >>

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Hermann Osthoff (1847–1909) and Karl Brugmann (1849–1919) were prominent members of the Neogrammarian school of...  Read More >>