Historical & comparative linguistics books

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The Influence of the Lexifier: Beyond Grammaticalisation in Singapore English

The Influence of the Lexifier: Beyond Grammaticalisation...

Author: Debra Ziegeler
ISBN: 9783110785173
Format: Hardback
$319.41

"The study of language contact in the ""new"" English varieties is frequently influenced by sociolinguistic approaches...  Read More >>

Studies on Chinese Discourse Grammar

Studies on Chinese Discourse Grammar

Author: FANG Mei
ISBN: 9781032589244
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book extends the traditional research perspective of single sentences and contexts to the textual structure...  Read More >>

The Language Puzzle: How We Talked Our Way Out of the Stone Age

The Language Puzzle: How We Talked Our Way Out of the...

Author: Steven Mithen
ISBN: 9781800811584
Format: Hardback
$55.00

A groundbreaking new account of prehistory from one of the most esteemed archaeologists working today  Read More >>

Writing Early China

Writing Early China

Author: Edward L. Shaughnessy
ISBN: 9781438495217
Format: Paperback
$100.19

Considers what unearthed documents reveal about the creation and transmission of knowledge in ancient China.  Read More >>

The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia: Typology, Morphosyntax and Socio-historical Perspectives

The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia: Typology,...

Author: Edward Vajda
ISBN: 9783111378220
Format: Hardback
$871.20

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Language in Deep Human History: An Evolutionary Story

Language in Deep Human History: An Evolutionary Story...

Author: Richard J. Watts
ISBN: 9783111238272
Format: Hardback
$319.41

To understand the evolution of language in the context of deep human history, interdisciplinary work between linguists...  Read More >>

The Origins of Chinese Literary Hermeneutics: A Study of the Shijing and the Mao School of Confucian Exegesis

The Origins of Chinese Literary Hermeneutics: A Study...

Author: Martin Svensson Ekström
ISBN: 9781438495392
Format: Hardback
$261.36

Explores how China’s oldest poetry collection was interpreted in a Confucian exegetical text—the Mao Commentary—in...  Read More >>

Language Change and Linguistic Diversity: Studies in Honour of Lyle Campbell

Language Change and Linguistic Diversity: Studies in...

Author: Thiago Costa Chacon ,  Nala H Lee
ISBN: 9781474488136
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Explores advances in the fields of language documentation, language change and historical linguistics  Read More >>

Definiteness in Balkan Romance

Definiteness in Balkan Romance

Author: Daniela Isac (Associate Professor of Linguistics, Associate Professor of Linguistics, Concordia University)
ISBN: 9780198865704
Format: Hardback
$212.00

This book explores the micro-variation in the realization of definiteness across languages belonging to the Balkan...  Read More >>

Diacron�a de Las Per�frasis Fasales: Origen, Evoluci�n Y Vigencia

Diacron�a de Las Per�frasis Fasales: Origen, Evoluci�n...

Author: Mar Garachana Camarero ,  Esther Artigas �lvarez
ISBN: 9783111340869
Format: Hardback
$290.37

The book provides an overview of the evolution of phasal periphrases from Latin to Spanish, from the perspective...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Pre-Roman Italy (1000--49 BCE)

The Oxford Handbook of Pre-Roman Italy (1000--49 BCE)...

Author: Marco Maiuro (Professor of Roman History, Professor of Roman History, Sapienza, University of Rome) ,  Jane Botsford Johnson (Professional Editor and Translator, Professional Editor and Translator)
ISBN: 9780199987894
Format: Hardback
$333.00

The Oxford Handbook of Pre-Roman Italy gives a comprehensive account of the peoples who lived on the Italian peninsula...  Read More >>

Variants and Variance in Classical Textual Cultures: Errors, Innovations, Proliferation, Reception?

Variants and Variance in Classical Textual Cultures:...

Author: Glenn W. Most
ISBN: 9783111017105
Format: Hardback
$335.25

Given the limited durability of most textual supports, texts must be reproduced if they are to survive. And given...  Read More >>

Descriptive Grammar and Diachrony of Kurima: A Minority South Ryukyuan Language of the Miyako Islands

Descriptive Grammar and Diachrony of Kurima: A Minority...

Author: Aleksandra Jarosz
ISBN: 9789004680531
Format: Hardback
$551.76

A comprehensive descriptive grammar of a moribund insular variety of Miyako-Ryukyuan, rich in noteworthy typological...  Read More >>

Language and Dialect Death: Theorising Sound Change in Obsolescent Gascon

Language and Dialect Death: Theorising Sound Change...

Author: Damien Mooney
ISBN: 9783031511004
Format: Hardback
$284.60

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Interfaces and Features in Second Language Acquisition: A Study on the Acquisition of Chinese Negation by English Speakers and Korean Speakers

Interfaces and Features in Second Language Acquisition:...

Author: Jia Wang
ISBN: 9789811986314
Format: Paperback
$284.60

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Language, Society and the State in a Changing World

Language, Society and the State in a Changing World...

Author: Stanley D. Brunn ,  Roland Kehrein
ISBN: 9783031181481
Format: Paperback
$284.60

Through including authors from nine different countries, who are writing about issuesin twelve countries and their...  Read More >>

The Colloquia of the Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana: Volume 1, Colloquia Monacensia-Einsidlensia, Leidense-Stephani, and Stephani

The Colloquia of the Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana:...

Author: Eleanor Dickey (University of Exeter)
ISBN: 9781009491013
Format: Paperback
$103.47

Colloquia are manuals designed to help ancient Greeks and Romans get around in each other's languages. In describing...  Read More >>

Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues

Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother...

Author: Ross Perlin
ISBN: 9781804710715
Format: Paperback
$27.99

A captivating portrait of contemporary New York City, the most linguistically diverse place ever to have existed...  Read More >>

English and Korean in Contrast: A Linguistic Introduction

English and Korean in Contrast: A Linguistic Introduction...

Author: Jong-Bok Kim
ISBN: 9781394157372
Format: Paperback
$74.95

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Language and Legal Judgments: Evaluation and Argument in Judicial Discourse

Language and Legal Judgments: Evaluation and Argument...

Author: Stanisław Goźdź-Roszkowski
ISBN: 9781032366906
Format: Hardback
$273.00

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

Tempus: The World of Discussion and the World of Narration

Tempus: The World of Discussion and the World of Narration...

Author: Herald Weinrich ,  Jane K. Brown
ISBN: 9781531503338
Format: Hardback
$257.99

Tempus studies tense uses, ancient and modern, in great literature and everyday life and in all the major languages...  Read More >>

Avestan Manual. a Handbook for Teaching and Self-Learning

Avestan Manual. a Handbook for Teaching and Self-Learning...

Author: Alberto Cantera ,  Celine Redard
ISBN: 9783447120920
Format: Paperback
$258.72

Avestan is the sacred language of the Zoroastrians in which they perform most of their rituals. It is known only...  Read More >>

Digital Flux, Linguistic Justice and Minoritized Languages

Digital Flux, Linguistic Justice and Minoritized Languages...

Author: Covadonga Lamar Prieto ,  Álvaro González Alba
ISBN: 9783110799316
Format: Hardback
$242.85

"The theoretical framework for the study of minoritized languages has been constructed from different areas of knowledge,...  Read More >>

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