Historical & comparative linguistics books

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Combining both case studies and theoretical reflections, this book offers a varied range of assessments about digital...  Read More >>

Why would a poem about courtly love remain so popular for so long? This book analyses literary and historical publishing...  Read More >>

How to Read a Word is an entertaining read that shows you how you might delve into the origin and evolution of words....  Read More >>

The commentary on the Torah of the eleventh-century French rabbi, ""Solomon Yishaqi of Troyes"" (better known as...  Read More >>

The first five books of the Hebrew Bible, called the Torah, are the foundation to the rest of the Bible. With this...  Read More >>

An incisive, multi-faceted study of a Spanish-Chinese manuscript grammar of the seventeenth century, The Language...  Read More >>

The author of ""Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin"" presents an erudite and provocative examination of the rise...  Read More >>

Presents fresh thoughts about the grammaticalization of Chinese function words. This title demonstrates that the...  Read More >>

This book is as good as gold for booksellers; I kid you...  Read More >>

This essential work with its more than a thousand maps and commentaries is the first to document the surname stock...  Read More >>

A must-have phrasebook for foreigners traveling to Haiti as a part of the 2010 earthquake rebuilding effort.  Read More >>

Written by the world-renowned pioneer in the field of modern sociolinguistics, this volume examines the cognitive...  Read More >>

The Making of Language presents an alternative to the prevalent view of language as the product of human genetics....  Read More >>

Includes twelve articles about contemporary approaches to variation and change in historical English grammar and...  Read More >>

Dieses Buch ist Nachfolger der Assyrisch-babylonische Zeichenliste (AOAT 33/33A, 4. Auflage, 1988, aber vergriffen...  Read More >>

This abridgement of the most authoritative dictionary of ancient Greek is perhaps the most complete single volume...  Read More >>

South African Indian English (or SATE) arose out of a language shift that occurred when Indians were denied full...  Read More >>

Develops a theoretical framework for the investigation of intuitions about stylistic differences from a contrastive...  Read More >>

Some are born notorious. Others have notoriety thrust upon them. ""Tawdry Knickers and Other Unfortunate Ways to...  Read More >>

""An entertaining tour of the English language.""-New York Times  Read More >>

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This book examines the nature of Augustinian time as the unfathomable yet permanent focus of the present. What are...  Read More >>