Historical & comparative linguistics books

A special collectors edition, GRIME is packed with never-before-seen archival material, candid interviews with artists,...  Read More >>

In 1799, a fragment of dark stone pulled from the rubble of Fort Julien near the town of Rosetta unlocked one of...  Read More >>

This book includes analyses of twenty-first century literature about the Holocaust. The international scholars highlight...  Read More >>

A complete, example-rich guide for students on developing their own full, working constructed language. Containing...  Read More >>

A complete, example-rich guide for students on developing their own full, working constructed language. Containing...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1969, this book examines the factors which at different historical periods led people to...  Read More >>

This book explores one of the richest dialect families in the world: Chinese dialects.  Read More >>

Die Schrift ist eine der größten Erfindungen der Menschheit - ohne sie gäbe es keine Bücher, keine Geschichte, keine...  Read More >>

The ""Graduiertenkolleg 1876"" in Mainz examined how concepts of humans and nature developed in the Middle East,...  Read More >>

This innovative work combines traditional analysis with modern corpus-based methods to explore macro- and micro-level...  Read More >>

This collection, the third in a series of three volumes, engages with key questions in panel study research by exploring...  Read More >>

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Ostraka from Trimithis, Volume 3 presents 232 new or re-edited texts from the excavations conducted at the site...  Read More >>

This volume investigates the Indo-European and Germanic background to the English language and then considers various...  Read More >>

An essential collection for every sailor's library, this fun dictionary of phrases and terms is anchored in nautical...  Read More >>

The Voynich Manuscript: Secrets of the Enigmatic Codex explores one of the most mysterious and undeciphered books...  Read More >>

As the second volume of a two-volume set that re-examines nouns and verbs in Chinese, this book investigates a wide...  Read More >>

Integrating research methods from Linguistics with contemporary Legal Argumentation Theory, this book highlights...  Read More >>

Discover hundreds of intriguing, entertaining, and often hilarious origins to the English language's most curious...  Read More >>

Long and Imamura examine language contact phenomena in the Asia Pacific region in the context of early 20th century...  Read More >>

This volume provides a concise overview of the diachronic development of composite predicates (CPs) in Late Modern...  Read More >>

The chapters in this book all demonstrate that, while corpora from different communities can vary in different ways,...  Read More >>

This first volume explores asymmetry in language by examining how affirmative and negative constructions reveal...  Read More >>

This second volume examines asymmetry in language by focusing on how linguistic form and meaning align or diverge....  Read More >>

Packed with surprising facts, witty anecdotes, and a dash of word-nerd humor, Why is it called that? is perfect...  Read More >>