Historical & comparative linguistics books

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This book presents a radically different view of language from that found in most modern Western philosophy. Human...  Read More >>

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la ricerca sul primitivo sostrato della Sardegna ha coinvolto senza successo una legione di studiosi. Le tesi formulate...  Read More >>

Includes fourteen studies that are peer-reviewed versions of papers presented at the 15th International Conference...  Read More >>

In the fourth volume of her pioneering history, Julie Coleman considers the trends of lexicographers in a period...  Read More >>

The first work dedicated solely to the subject of slang words and their meanings, this book is a lost gem originally...  Read More >>

Presents an analysis of the causes of obsolescence of Scandinavian loanwords in English since the 15th century....  Read More >>

The Handbook of Historical Pragmatics provides an authoritative and accessible overview of this versatile new field...  Read More >>

Within Germanic, North Germanic is special because in many dialects words can differ only based on their melody...  Read More >>

Dokumentiert wird die über 200-jährige Tradition der Aufnahme sonder-, fach- und gruppensprachlicher Lexik in allgemeine...  Read More >>

Valence alternations; that is, the use of a given verb in different syntactic patterns, are a well-studied topic...  Read More >>

As a result English still has many thousands of Latin words in everyday use. Mark Walker is also the author of Annus...  Read More >>

Studies in Turkic Etymology"" is a posthumous selection of articles in English and German written by the distinguished...  Read More >>

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When originally published in 1873 one of the aims was to protest against an idea that the Japanese language was...  Read More >>

Contains several introductory notes on Nomenclature, Syntax, Verbs, Aru, Iru, Oru, on Adjectives and on Foreign...  Read More >>

The definitive guide to historical linguistics, covering all the most important issues in the field.  Read More >>

This extremely useful volume is a comprehensive introduction to the grammar and vocabulary of the Greek of the New...  Read More >>

Somewhere and somehow, in the 5 to 7 million years since the common ancestors of humans and the great apes, our...  Read More >>

A finales del siglo XV, el castellano desembarcó en América para iniciar un largo camino que lo convertiría en el...  Read More >>

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Sociolinguist Elizabeth Gordon has been commenting on this and other matters of linguistic debate in a weekly column...  Read More >>