Historical & comparative linguistics books

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Pre-Exilic Israel, the Hebrew Bible, and Archaeology: Integrating Text and Artefact

Pre-Exilic Israel, the Hebrew Bible, and Archaeology:...
Author: Professor Anthony J. Frendo (University of Malta, Malta) ISBN: 9780567415639 Format: Hardback	$280.00
The nature of historical and archaeological research is such that biblical and archaeological evidence should both... Read More >>

Linguistic Simplicity and Complexity: Why Do Languages Undress?

Linguistic Simplicity and Complexity: Why Do Languages...
Author: John H. McWhorter ISBN: 9781934078372 Format: Hardback	$369.47
In John McWhorter’s Defining Creole anthology of 2005, his collected articles conveyed the following theme: His... Read More >>

Linguistic Universals and Language Variation

Linguistic Universals and Language Variation
Author: Peter Siemund ISBN: 9783110238051 Format: Hardback	$396.00
Explores the relationship between linguistic universals and language variation. This title intends to bridge the... Read More >>

Französische Ereignisnominalisierungen: Abstrakte Bedeutung und regelhafte Wortbildung

Französische Ereignisnominalisierungen: Abstrakte Bedeutung...
Author: Melanie Uth ISBN: 9783110259735 Format: Hardback	$475.20
The book series Linguistische Arbeiten (LA) publishes high-quality work in linguistics that addresses current issues... Read More >>

When The World Spoke French

When The World Spoke French
Author: Marc Fumaroli , Richard Howard ISBN: 9781590173756 Format: Paperback	$50.03
From the death of Louis XIV to the Revolution - in Sweden, Austria, Italy, Spain, England, Russia, and Germany;... Read More >>

The Pun Also Rises: How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics

The Pun Also Rises: How the Humble Pun Revolutionized...
Author: John Pollack , Pete Larkin ISBN: 9798200090020 Format: Audio	$121.31
Erudite and amusing study of puns. Read More >>

The Pun Also Rises: How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics

The Pun Also Rises: How the Humble Pun Revolutionized...
Author: John Pollack , Pete Larkin ISBN: 9798200090013 Format: Audio	$95.01
Erudite and amusing study of puns. Read More >>

American Language

American Language
Author: Professor H L Mencken ISBN: 9781434121660 Format: Hardback	$76.53
This groundbreaking study clarifies the differences between British and American English and defines the distinguishing... Read More >>

The Gothic Language: Grammar, Genetic Provenance and Typology, Readings

The Gothic Language: Grammar, Genetic Provenance and...
Author: Irmengard Rauch , Irmengard Rauch ISBN: 9781433110757 Format: Paperback	$113.39
Suitable for students and scholars of the oldest known language with a sizeable corpus, belonging to the English,... Read More >>

Achievements and Perspectives in SLA of Speech: New Sounds 2010: Volume II

Achievements and Perspectives in SLA of Speech: New...
Author: Magdalena Wrembel , Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kolaczyk ISBN: 9783631607237 Format: Hardback	$130.15
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Historical Linguistics and the Comparative Study of African Languages

Historical Linguistics and the Comparative Study of...
Author: Gerrit J. Dimmendaal (University of Cologne) ISBN: 9789027211798 Format: Paperback	$142.56
A historical linguistics course book that deals with the historical and comparative study of African languages.... Read More >>

Historical Linguistics and the Comparative Study of African Languages

Historical Linguistics and the Comparative Study of...
Author: Gerrit J. Dimmendaal (University of Cologne) ISBN: 9789027211781 Format: Hardback	$417.12
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Jackspeak: A guide to British Naval slang & usage

Jackspeak: A guide to British Naval slang & usage
Author: Rick Jolly , Tugg ISBN: 9781844861446 Format: Hardback	$47.39
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Words to Eat by: Five Foods and the Culinary History of the English Language

Words to Eat by: Five Foods and the Culinary History...
Author: Ina Lipkowitz ISBN: 9780312662189 Format: Hardback	$68.61
English food words tell a remarkable story about the evolution of our language and culinary history, revealing a... Read More >>

Ultimate Writing Guide for Students

Ultimate Writing Guide for Students
Author: Mignon Fogarty , Erwin Haya ISBN: 9781680652055 Format: Hardback	$68.11
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The American Language

The American Language
Author: Professor H L Mencken ISBN: 9781613836279 Format: Hardback	$107.45
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Crooked Talk: Five Hundred Years of the Language of Crime

Crooked Talk: Five Hundred Years of the Language of...
Author: Jonathon Green ISBN: 9781847946287 Format: Hardback	$65.87
Looks at five hundred years of crooks and conmen, from the hedge-creepers and counterfeit cranks of the sixteenth... Read More >>

The Book of Enoch

The Book of Enoch
Author: Robert Henry Charles , August Dillmann ISBN: 9781603864244 Format: Paperback	$23.44
The early Christian Fathers and the Essenes of Qumran respected 'The Book of Enoch' but by the 4th century AD the... Read More >>

D!rty Greek

D!rty Greek
Author: Editors of Amorata Press ISBN: 9781569759325 Format: Paperback	$26.40
Nothing is censored in Dirty Greek. By revealing the contemporary colloquial language locals actually speak, this... Read More >>

Marking Thought and Talk in New Testament Greek: New Light from Linguistics on the Particles 'hina' and 'hoti'

Marking Thought and Talk in New Testament Greek: New...
Author: Margaret G. Sim ISBN: 9780227173770 Format: Paperback	$112.20
This book uses insights from a modern theory of communication, Relevance Theory, to examine the function of the... Read More >>

World Englishes

World Englishes
Author: Gunnel Melchers (University of Stockholm, Sweden) , Philip Shaw (University of Stockholm, Sweden) ISBN: 9781444135374 Format: Paperback	$109.56
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Grundzüge der Morphologie des Deutschen

Grundzüge der Morphologie des Deutschen
Author: Hilke Elsen ISBN: 9783110237917 Format: Paperback	$51.39
This book is intended for all students of German Studies and provides the full range of inflection and formation... Read More >>

Dirty Spanish: Everyday Slang from 'What's Up?' to 'F*%# Off'

Dirty Spanish: Everyday Slang from 'What's Up?' to 'F*%#...
Author: Juan Caballero , Nick Denton Brown ISBN: 9781569759233 Format: Paperback	$26.40
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Accented America: The Cultural Politics of Multilingual Modernism

Accented America: The Cultural Politics of Multilingual...
Author: Joshua L. Miller (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, University of Michigan, Durham, NC) ISBN: 9780195337006 Format: Paperback	$67.95
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The Linguistic Cycle: Language Change and the Language Faculty

The Linguistic Cycle: Language Change and the Language...
Author: Elly van Gelderen (Regents' Professor, Department of English, Regents' Professor, Department of English, Arizona State University) ISBN: 9780199756049 Format: Paperback	$133.95
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