Historical & comparative linguistics books

Living through Conquest is the first ever investigation of the political clout of English from the reign of Cnut...  Read More >>

Copies versus Cognates in Bound Morphology puts genealogical and areal explanation for shared morphology in a balanced...  Read More >>

In Language Contact in the Danish West Indies: Giving Jack His Jacket, Robin Sabino draws on fieldwork with a last...  Read More >>

Provides a description of English Astronomy writing between 1700 and 1900, from a synchronic and a diachronic perspective....  Read More >>

With the backdrop of new global powers, this volume interrogates the state of writing in English. Strongly interdisciplinary,...  Read More >>

The series Biblia Coptica provides the first systematic compilation of Biblical texts from the Old and New Testaments...  Read More >>

Mode aus Paris hatte bereits im 19. Jahrhundert Vorbildwirkung und wurde schon damals durch aufwendig produzierte...  Read More >>

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Suitable for academic teaching and further research in the fields of phraseology and figurative language, areal...  Read More >>

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How many languages are there? What differentiates one language from another? Are new languages still being discovered?...  Read More >>

The only way that I have found it possible to let this book go to press is to reread the Preface to Events in the...  Read More >>

The cartographic project considers evidence for a functional head in one language as evidence for it in universal...  Read More >>

Contributes to a theory of reiteration in natural languages, with a special focus on creoles. Alongside five chapters...  Read More >>

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<p>Ugetsu Monogatari, or Tales of Moonlight and Rain numbers among the best-loved Japanese classics. These nine...  Read More >>

Ein ebenso ausführlicher, wissenschaftlicher und spannender Kommentar begleitet jeden Welt- und Zeitausschnitt:...  Read More >>

Beginning with a discussion of real-life challenges relating to world Englishes that are faced by language professionals...  Read More >>

In John McWhorter’s Defining Creole anthology of 2005, his collected articles conveyed the following theme: His...  Read More >>

Beginning with a discussion of real-life challenges relating to world Englishes that are faced by language professionals...  Read More >>

Offers new lenses to probe into long-term foreign language development. This title reports on findings of a longitudinal...  Read More >>

The formation of the Book of the Twelve is one of the most vigorously debated subjects in Old Testament studies...  Read More >>

This book will amaze you and fascinate you while you reading these 3 interesting Chinese jokes. Sam Song has a...  Read More >>

"""Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."" - Leonardo da Vinci. Bad English, as George Orwell argued so eloquently...  Read More >>