Historical & comparative linguistics books

This textbook is an introduction to the various areas of Italian linguistics: Along with the methods of modern linguistics...  Read More >>

Dom R.H. Connolly provides an English translation and study of four liturgical homilies by Narsai.  Read More >>

Elly van Gelderen examines the linguistic cycle and describes how it offers a unique perspective on the language...  Read More >>

American literary works written in the heyday of modernism between the 1890s and 1940s were playfully, painfully,...  Read More >>

This easy-to-understand book includes everything you need to learn Biblical Aramaic, including a lexicon of Biblical...  Read More >>

Each of the four chapters of the book focuses on a different aspect of the division between Judah and Israel: between...  Read More >>

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MODERN ENGLISH with its stock of some 700,000 words drawn from many linguistic sources is now a universal language....  Read More >>

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The author of ""Alphabet Juice"" delivers a second helping of wordplay. Rather than proper English, blunt prescribes...  Read More >>

An introduction to the Latin vocabulary and grammar of the psalms and canticles of the breviary.  Read More >>

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A collection ofstudies offering an up-to-date analysis of official policies to promote Catalan in a democratic framework...  Read More >>

* Includes a wealth of information and data on English spelling not available anywhere else * Features a complementary...  Read More >>

From the author of Globish, a new edition of the acclaimed history of the English language.  Read More >>

Have we always ""sworn like sailors""? Has creative cursing developed because we can't just slug people when they...  Read More >>

Alliteration occurs in a wide variety of contexts in stress-initial languages, including Icelandic, Finnish and...  Read More >>

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