Historical & comparative linguistics books

Japanese and Korean are typologically similar languages, and a linguistic phenomenon in the former often has a counterpart...  Read More >>

This book provides a detailed linguistic analysis of the nationalist discourses of the German Second Reich, which...  Read More >>

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

A first in multimodal/multisemiotic discourse studies this collection of original articles by international scholars...  Read More >>

This work focuses on the ideological intertwining between Czech, Magyar, Polish and Slovak, and the corresponding...  Read More >>

This volume contains both fundamental biblical Hebrew and Aramaic....  Read More >>

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The system that any language uses to express evaluations, judgments, estimations, and non-real situations tends...  Read More >>

Malawi is linguistically heterogeneous, with 13 Malawian languages and their numerous dialects spoken within the...  Read More >>

Focussing on Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) letter writing, this compendium is an outstanding study of historical Chinese...  Read More >>

This groundbreaking study traces the creation, dissemination, and evolution of Sequoyah's Cherokee syllabary from...  Read More >>

This is the second volume of the multi-volume set A Contemporary Grammar of British English Dialects. The volume...  Read More >>

The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet people against Nazi Germany, known as the Eastern Front of World War II, continues...  Read More >>

The alphabetic script is part of the lasting heritage of the ancient Near East. It unites a number of newly-emerging...  Read More >>

Volumes in the Trends in Linguistics. Documentation series focus on the presentation of linguistic data. The series...  Read More >>

The studies show that the variation within a language at any given point of history is too great for cycles to be...  Read More >>

On the basis of synchronic and diachronic data analysis, the volume takes a close look at the synchronic layers...  Read More >>

Showcases the contributions that the study of contact language varieties make to the understanding of phenomena...  Read More >>

This invaluable book describes the development of the French language from its Latin origins to its most recent...  Read More >>

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What do all human languages have in common and in what ways are they different? How can language be used to trace...  Read More >>

Bar Salibi’s commentary on the Eucharist is an invaluable witness to the history of the Syriac version of the anaphora...  Read More >>

What are the points of contact between the study of language and the study of history? What are the possibilities...  Read More >>

This exploration of the versatility of writing systems highlights their complexity when used for more than one language....  Read More >>

This book describes the semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic features of Sabellian demonstratives. It contains new...  Read More >>