Historical & comparative linguistics books

An overview of all aspects of Hong Kong English in a style designed for undergraduates and general readers.  Read More >>

Over ten years in the making, ""The Blakeneys: An Etymological, Ethnological, and Genealogical Study"" is the most...  Read More >>

An overview of all aspects of Hong Kong English in a style designed for undergraduates and general readers.  Read More >>

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This witty and informative book debunks myths that bamboozle word-loving fansand offers a delightful primer on the...  Read More >>

This work is one of the first studies presenting a comprehensive linguistic investigation into non-literary Judaeo-Arabic....  Read More >>

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Brings together seemingly unrelated Eastern and Western languages and finds common Celtic roots and reference points...  Read More >>

"A study of the Old English relative clause. It investigates two problems of ambiguity associated with relative...  Read More >>

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What role do metaphors play in philosophical language? Are they impediments to clear thinking that should be eradicated...  Read More >>

'Chameleon,' says the author, educationist Laurence Shee, 'doesn't focus solely on figurative language, but on many...  Read More >>

This volume on Ecology of Language presents chapters on ecologies of language , literacy and learning. The volume...  Read More >>

Offers a collection of papers which seek to provide further insights into the way scientific and technical knowledge...  Read More >>

Reflects Minoji Akimoto's concern with studies of change in English that are theoretically-informed, but founded...  Read More >>

The ""Onomasticon of Biblical Place Names"" of the (later) Bishop Eusebius of Caesarea still represents the basis...  Read More >>

A collection of papers on the role informational categories like topic and focus can play in language change phenomena....  Read More >>

A Mosaic of Corpus Linguistics  Read More >>

Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European....  Read More >>

Until the mid-19th century, London  Read More >>

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Bactrian was the principal language of administration in what is now Afghanistan from the time of the Kushan empire...  Read More >>

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What do the following have in common?Let there be light - A fly in the ointment - A rod of iron - New wine in old...  Read More >>