Historical & comparative linguistics books

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Composition for Beginners

Composition for Beginners
Author: Craig Nelson ISBN: 9781440322945 Format: Electronic book text	$15.81
Artist Craig Nelson covers all the basics of composition. From perspective to proportion, you will discover the... Read More >>

More Than Words: English Lexicography and Lexicology- Past and Present- Essays Presented to Hans Sauer on the Occasion of his 65 th Birthday – Part I

More Than Words: English Lexicography and Lexicology-...
Author: Renate Bauer , Ulrike Krischke ISBN: 9783631595770 Format: Hardback	$181.90
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Language Death

Language Death
Author: David Crystal ISBN: 9781139106856 Format: Undefined	$462.00
The endangerment and death of minority languages across the world is a matter of widespread concern. A leading commentator... Read More >>

Japanese/Korean Linguistics, Volume 19

Japanese/Korean Linguistics, Volume 19
Author: Ho-Min Sohn , Haruko Minegishi Cook ISBN: 9781575866192 Format: Hardback	$132.95
Japanese and Korean are typologically similar languages, and a linguistic phenomenon in the former often has a counterpart... Read More >>

English Language Learners in Literacy Workshops

English Language Learners in Literacy Workshops
Author: Marsha Riddle Buly ISBN: 9780814122884 Format: Paperback	$113.39
Shows how reading, writing, and language workshops can be used to help language learners in mainstream K-8 classrooms.... Read More >>

The Language Wars: A History of Proper English

The Language Wars: A History of Proper English
Author: Henry Hitchings ISBN: 9780374183295 Format: Hardback	$73.92
What really is correctness? Why do people care so much about it? What is at stake in the quarrel about good and... Read More >>

Indonesian Slang: Colloquial Indonesian at Work

Indonesian Slang: Colloquial Indonesian at Work
Author: Christopher Torchia , Lely Djuhari ISBN: 9780804842075 Format: Paperback	$39.47
Cekidot, gan!--""Check it out Boss!"" Kamu Dodol--""You're a coconut fudge!"" (You're slow on the uptake) This... Read More >>

Secret Manipulations: Language and Context in Africa

Secret Manipulations: Language and Context in Africa...
Author: Anne Storch (Professor of African Linguistics, Professor of African Linguistics, University of Cologne) ISBN: 9780199769025 Format: Paperback	$115.95
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Abraham Ibn Ezra on Elections, Interrogations, and Medical Astrology: A Parallel Hebrew-English Critical Edition of the Book of Elections (3 Versions), the Book of Interrogations (3 Versions), and the Book of the Luminaries

Abraham Ibn Ezra on Elections, Interrogations, and Medical...
Author: Shlomo Sela , Abraham Ben Me'ir Ibn Ezra ISBN: 9789004212206 Format: Hardback	$865.92
This volume offers the first critical edition, with English translation and commentary, of seven astrological treatises... Read More >>

Women, Language and Grammar in Italy, 1500-1900

Women, Language and Grammar in Italy, 1500-1900
Author: Helena Sanson (University Senior Lecturer, Department of Italian, University of Cambridge; Fellow of Clare College) ISBN: 9780197264836 Format: Hardback	$232.88
In the sixteenth century Italian was a literary language not accessible to the less educated, among them women,... Read More >>

American Heritage Dictionary Of Indo-European Roots, Third E

American Heritage Dictionary Of Indo-European Roots,...
Author: Calvert Watkins ISBN: 9780547549446 Format: Paperback	$57.95
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The Greek of the Septuagint: A Supplemental Lexicon

The Greek of the Septuagint: A Supplemental Lexicon...
Author: Gary Alan Chamberlain ISBN: 9781565637412 Format: Hardback	$105.47
For New Testament students and scholars who want to fully exegete the Read More >>

Structural Nativization in Indian English Lexicogrammar

Structural Nativization in Indian English Lexicogrammar...
Author: Marco Schilk (Justus Liebig University, Giessen) ISBN: 9789027203519 Format: Hardback	$356.40
A study that is based on the comparison of the Indian and the British components of the International Corpus of... Read More >>

Spelling Morphology: The Psycholinguistics of Hebrew Spelling

Spelling Morphology: The Psycholinguistics of Hebrew...
Author: Dorit Diskin Ravid ISBN: 9781441905871 Format: Hardback	$340.56
The strong correlation between orthographies and morphological units makes linking consistent grammatical and lexical... Read More >>

Understanding Language: A Guide for Beginning Students of Greek and Latin

Understanding Language: A Guide for Beginning Students...
Author: Donald Fairbairn ISBN: 9780813218663 Format: Paperback	$41.99
Why do students today find Greek and Latin so difficult and frustrating to learn? Perhaps the primary barrier preventing... Read More >>

Babel's Dawn: A Natural History of the Origins of Speech

Babel's Dawn: A Natural History of the Origins of Speech...
Author: Edmund Blair Bolles ISBN: 9781582436418 Format: Hardback	$66.00
Babel’s Dawn is a saga covering six million years. Like a walk through a natural history museum, Bolles demonstrates... Read More >>

Constructions: Emerging and Emergent

Constructions: Emerging and Emergent
Author: Peter Auer , Stefan Pfänder ISBN: 9783110229073 Format: Hardback	$291.63
This volume embarks on an exploration of the processual and dynamic character of grammatical constructions in emergence,... Read More >>

Migration, Narration, Communication: Cultural Exchanges in a Globalised World

Migration, Narration, Communication: Cultural Exchanges...
Author: Wladyslaw Witalisz , Alicja Witalisz ISBN: 9783631606728 Format: Hardback	$100.40
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The (Hi)story of Nobiin – 1000 Years of Language Change

The (Hi)story of Nobiin – 1000 Years of Language Change...
Author: Marianne Bechhaus-Gerst ISBN: 9783631614945 Format: Hardback	$119.28
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Morphological Autonomy: Perspectives From Romance Inflectional Morphology

Morphological Autonomy: Perspectives From Romance Inflectional...
Author: Martin Maiden (Faculty of Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics, University of Oxford) , John Charles Smith (Faculty of Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics, University of Oxford) ISBN: 9780199589982 Format: Hardback	$330.00
This book is about the nature of morphology and its place in the structure of grammar. Drawing on a wide range of... Read More >>

Verbal Morphology in the Karaite Treatise on Hebrew Grammar Kitāb al-ʿUqūd fī Taṣārīf al-Luġa al-ʿIbrāniyya: Cambridge Genizah Studies Series, Volume 2

Verbal Morphology in the Karaite Treatise on Hebrew...
Author: Nadia Vidro ISBN: 9789004214248 Format: Hardback	$340.56
This book studies verbal morphological theories expressed in medieval Karaite grammars of Biblical Hebrew, in particular... Read More >>

An Introduction to the Old Testament in Greek: The Contents of the Alexandrian Old Testament...

An Introduction to the Old Testament in Greek: The Contents...
Author: D D ISBN: 9781247184166 Format: Paperback	$70.62
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In Parables Volume III

In Parables Volume III
Author: Michael Andrew Carrell ISBN: 9780976627852 Format: Paperback	$57.95
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The History of English Spelling

The History of English Spelling
Author: Christopher Upward (Late of Aston University, UK) , George Davidson (previously University of Reading, UK) ISBN: 9781405190237 Format: Paperback	$59.95
* Includes a wealth of information and data on English spelling not available anywhere else * Features a complementary... Read More >>

The History of English Spelling

The History of English Spelling
Author: Christopher Upward (Late of Aston University, UK) , George Davidson (previously University of Reading, UK) ISBN: 9781405190244 Format: Hardback	$147.95
* Includes a wealth of information and data on English spelling not available anywhere else * Features a complementary... Read More >>

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