Historical & comparative linguistics books

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The Oxford History of English

The Oxford History of English
Author: Lynda Mugglestone (Professor of History of English, University of Oxford, and Fellow and Tutor in English at Pembroke College) ISBN: 9780199660162 Format: Paperback	$30.95
Lynda Mugglestone's hugely popular The Oxford History of English is republished in a reset and revised edition featuring... Read More >>

Eight Decades of General Linguistics: The History of CIPL and Its Role in the History of Linguistics

Eight Decades of General Linguistics: The History of...
Author: Ferenc Kiefer , Piet van Sterkenburg ISBN: 9789004218130 Format: Hardback	$739.20
Eight Decades of General Linguistics offers the lectures of outstanding scholars including Otto Jesperson, Louis... Read More >>

The Genesis of Sri Lanka Malay: A Case of Extreme Language Contact

The Genesis of Sri Lanka Malay: A Case of Extreme Language...
Author: Sebastian Nordhoff ISBN: 9789004234130 Format: Hardback	$485.76
Sri Lanka Malay shows extreme language contact: Malay phonology and lexicon are squared with clearly Indian morphosyntax... Read More >>

Totalitarian Political Discourse?: Tolerance and Intolerance in Eastern and East Central European Countries – Diachronic and Synchronoc Aspects. In collaboration with Karsten Senkbeil

Totalitarian Political Discourse?: Tolerance and Intolerance...
Author: Beatrix Kreß ISBN: 9783631632765 Format: Hardback	$97.55
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Idiomantics: The Weird and Wonderful World of Popular Phrases

Idiomantics: The Weird and Wonderful World of Popular...
Author: Philip Gooden ISBN: 9781283714099 Format: Electronic book text	$102.96
Idiomantics is a unique exploration of the world of idiomatic phrases. To cite three examples - from American English,... Read More >>

The Verb Phrase in English

The Verb Phrase in English
Author: Professor of English Linguistics and Director of the Survey of English Usage Bas Aarts (University College London) , Joanne Close (University of Chester) ISBN: 9781283986656 Format: Electronic book text	$348.48
The chapters in this volume feature new and groundbreaking research carried out by leading scholars and promising... Read More >>

How English Became the Global Language

How English Became the Global Language
Author: Former Professor David Northrup (Boston College Boston College, Massachusetts Boston College, Massachusetts Boston College Boston College Boston College Boston College Boston College Boston College) ISBN: 9781299407114 Format: Electronic book text	$269.28
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Critical Ethnography of Westerners Teaching English in China, A: Shanghaied in Shanghai

Critical Ethnography of Westerners Teaching English...
Author: Phiona Stanley (The University of New South Wales, Australia) ISBN: 9781299156753 Format: Electronic book text	$422.40
Western teachers, many of whom would not be considered teachers elsewhere, teach English in public and private education... Read More >>

Excuse Me, Your Participle's Dangling

Excuse Me, Your Participle's Dangling
Author: Catherine DePino ISBN: 9781299184961 Format: Electronic book text	$58.05
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Applying Cognitive Grammar in the Foreign Language Classroom: Teaching English Tense and Aspect

Applying Cognitive Grammar in the Foreign Language Classroom:...
Author: ISBN: 9781299197503 Format: Undefined	$472.56
The monograph constitutes an attempt to demonstrate how Cognitive Grammar (CG) can be employed in the foreign language... Read More >>

Spanish Perfects, The: Pathways of Emergent Meaning

Spanish Perfects, The: Pathways of Emergent Meaning...
Author: Lewis Howe ISBN: 9781299406537 Format: Electronic book text	$250.80
Among the most prolifically treated topics in grammaticalization approaches to semantic change is the development... Read More >>

Five Words

Five Words
Author: Roland Greene (University of Oregon) ISBN: 9781299605268 Format: Undefined	$118.80
Blood. Invention. Language. Resistance. World. Five ordinary words that do a great deal of conceptual work in everyday... Read More >>

Dynamics of Morphological Productivity

Dynamics of Morphological Productivity
Author: Francesco Gardani (WU Vienna) ISBN: 9781299665460 Format: Electronic book text	$580.80
In Dynamics of Morphological Productivity, Francesco Gardani explores the evolution of the productivity of the noun... Read More >>

Arabic Influence on Northern Berber

Arabic Influence on Northern Berber
Author: Maarten Kossmann ISBN: 9781299808263 Format: Electronic book text	$475.20
The Arabic Influence on Northern Berber provides an overview of the linguistic influence on a wide array of Berber... Read More >>

Practice Makes Perfect English Problem Solver

Practice Makes Perfect English Problem Solver
Author: Ed Swick ISBN: 9781299824287 Format: Electronic book text	$36.96
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Scribes as Agents of Language Change

Scribes as Agents of Language Change
Author: Esther-Miriam Wagner , Ben Outhwaite (University of Cambridge) ISBN: 9781299724662 Format: Electronic book text	$369.60
Deals with a variety of aspects of language change and focuses on the role of scribes. This title provides a wealth... Read More >>

Language in Scotland: Corpus-Based Studies

Language in Scotland: Corpus-Based Studies
Author: Wendy Anderson, Etc (University of Glasgow) , Wendy Anderson, Etc (University of Glasgow) ISBN: 9781299879515 Format: Electronic book text	$206.71
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Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing

Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing
Author: Melissa Mohr ISBN: 9781299456716 Format: Electronic book text	$115.26
A humorous, trenchant and fascinating examination of how Western culture's taboo words have evolved over the millennia... Read More >>

Historical Linguistics: An Introduction

Historical Linguistics: An Introduction
Author: Winfred P Lehmann ISBN: 9781299477872 Format: Electronic book text	$475.20
Historical Linguistics provides a comprehensive and clearly written introduction to historical linguistic theory... Read More >>

Twentieth Century Borrowings from French to English: Their Reception and Development

Twentieth Century Borrowings from French to English:...
Author: Julia Schultz ISBN: 9781299659650 Format: Electronic book text	$285.78
French has long been the donor language par excellence in the history of English. French has contributed to the... Read More >>

English for Journalists: Twentieth Anniversary Edition

English for Journalists: Twentieth Anniversary Edition...
Author: Wynford Hicks (Freelance Journalist, UK) ISBN: 9781299685949 Format: Electronic book text	$303.60
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Practice Makes Perfect English Grammar for ESL Learners, 2nd Edition

Practice Makes Perfect English Grammar for ESL Learners,...
Author: Ed Swick ISBN: 9781299824638 Format: Electronic book text	$34.32
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Practice Makes Perfect Intermediate English Reading and Comprehension

Practice Makes Perfect Intermediate English Reading...
Author: Diane Engelhardt ISBN: 9781299825529 Format: Electronic book text	$39.60
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Practice Makes Perfect Advanced English Reading and Comprehension

Practice Makes Perfect Advanced English Reading and...
Author: Diane Engelhardt ISBN: 9781299826502 Format: Electronic book text	$39.60
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Mapping the Old Zhuang Character Script

Mapping the Old Zhuang Character Script
Author: Professor of Chinese David Holm (Macquarie University, Sydney) ISBN: 9781299104891 Format: Electronic book text	$704.88
Illustrated with 133 maps, Mapping the Old Zhuang Character Script by David Holm, surveys the traditional character... Read More >>

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