Historical & comparative linguistics books

This book is concerned with the quantitative, usage based, and aggregational study of linguistic variation. Even...  Read More >>

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Sociolinguistics in Scotland presents a comprehensive overview of sociolinguistic research in Scotland and showcases...  Read More >>

For many years, studies of the development of pragmatic and discourse skills in young children have predominantly...  Read More >>

This collection of articles by colleagues and students of Leiv Egil Breivik presents studies within both core and...  Read More >>

In Creole Renegades, Benedicte Boisseron looks at exiled Caribbean authors Edwidge Danticat, Jamaica Kincaid, V....  Read More >>

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A Linguistic History of Italian offers a clear and concise explanation of why modern Italian grammar has become...  Read More >>

Usage-based approaches to language have gained increasing attention in the last two decades. The importance of change...  Read More >>

Over 60 percent of all English words have Greek or Latin roots; in the vocabulary of the sciences and technology,...  Read More >>

War words have embedded themselves in our collective psyche; British politicians are fond of invoking the 'Dunkirk...  Read More >>

An excerpt from the Author's PREFACE: This book is simply what it professes to be, a collection and explanation...  Read More >>

Die Geschichte der deutschen Sprache - nun bereits in der 11. Auflage - ist und bleibt ein unverzichtbares Standardwerk...  Read More >>

Offers a selection of contributions that highlight scenarios of language origin and the prerequisites for a faculty...  Read More >>

The dialect spoken and written by the Jews of Babylonia from the third century CE onwards is known as Jewish Babylonian...  Read More >>

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The study of opacity falls under the general programme of showing how the meaning of any complex sentence is composed...  Read More >>

This book offers a workbook approach to linguistics and provides guidelines for the study of language. It aims to...  Read More >>

The present study investigated differences on the knowledge and use of collocations between French and Japanese...  Read More >>

Il n'y a donc jamais de sens qu'un discours ne puisse ou veuille fixer, mais au contraire, des ensembles de reperages,...  Read More >>

Das DOM setzt sich zum Ziel, den Wortschatz der altokzitanischen Sprache in einer modernen Ansprüchen genügenden...  Read More >>

Bringing together the research fields of sign language linguistics and information structure, this book focuses...  Read More >>

Explores the phenomenon of xenoglossia, the sudden, miraculous ability to speak, understand, read, or write a foreign...  Read More >>

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