Historical & comparative linguistics books

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Emergence of a large corpus of written texts for some languages has enabled quantitative as well as qualitative...  Read More >>

This book primarily provides a detailed description and interpretation of one of the most fascinating and poorly...  Read More >>

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Un fascinante itinerario por las palabras de nuestro idioma, sus significados, su evolución, sus secretos y sus...  Read More >>

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The success which attended the Latin Graecitas Biblica from its first (1944) to its revised and enlarged fourth...  Read More >>

The people who lived and worked on and alongside the Ohio and Erie canal had a vocabulary of their own. This text...  Read More >>

Ce livre est centré sur un projet de traduction spécifique, celui de rendre en français le roman Southern Steel...  Read More >>

As European vernaculars emerged from the shadow of Latin in the early modern era, the French language acquired greater...  Read More >>

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In variational linguistics, concepts of space have always been a central issue. However, different research traditions...  Read More >>

Why are speakers of English always calling each other names? This book is for those who want to explore the terms...  Read More >>

Intended as a textbook to support Hebrew classes, this title aims to give teachers the maximum latitude for the...  Read More >>

This book explores some of the ways in which standardization, ideology and linguistics are connected, by examining...  Read More >>

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The Folk Classification of Ceramics: A Study of Cognitive Prototypes provides a general understanding of folk classification...  Read More >>

This volume offers in-depth introductions into major aspects of the Foundations of Arabic Linguistics, early Syriac...  Read More >>

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If time travelers from the nineteenth century dropped in on us, our strange vocabulary would shock them just as...  Read More >>

Sri Lanka Malay shows extreme language contact: Malay phonology and lexicon are squared with clearly Indian morphosyntax...  Read More >>

Drawing on the recent discussions on Middle Arabic and Mixed Arabic, this book offers a comprehensive survey of...  Read More >>

This volume comprises 28 papers presented at the 1st International Conference on Non-Dominant Varieties of Pluricentric...  Read More >>

The Scandinavian presence all over Europe during the so-called Viking Age is well documented and England is not...  Read More >>

In The Reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European Laryngeals in Celtic, Nicholas Zair for the first time collects all the...  Read More >>