Historical & comparative linguistics books

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A monograph on biblical linguistics that is a pragmatic investigation of the controversial question of 'foregrounding'...  Read More >>

In this magnum opus, N. J. C. Kouwenberg presents a thoroughgoing, modern analysis of the Akkadian verbal system,...  Read More >>

From the 700s B.C.E. to the late 300s B.C.E., Aramaic was the international language of the ancient Near East. With...  Read More >>

Equipping Global Servants with English for Theology, Mission, and Ministry International students in North American...  Read More >>

This completely revised and expanded edition of English Prepositions Explained (EPE), originally published in 1998,...  Read More >>

Translations of Cervantes' ""Don Quijote"" (1605) take pride of place among foreign literature in China. In this...  Read More >>

Next time you're traveling or just chattin' in Korean with your friends, drop the textbook formality and bust out...  Read More >>

Volume 2 of 2. Classic contains most of the more common words, plus slang, archaic words and phrases, and common...  Read More >>

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and...  Read More >>

It is one of the basic tenets in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology that language is not only situated...  Read More >>

This book presents the first comprehensive description of the Manambu language of Papua New Guinea. Manambu belongs...  Read More >>

Can an author's preference for expressing modality be quantified and then used as a marker of attribution? This...  Read More >>

Perceptual dialectology is concerned with subjective, non-specialist, naïve perspectives of German and the role...  Read More >>

Drawing on insights from formal semantics and linguistic typology, this book presents a comprehensive account of...  Read More >>

What is an interjection? Oh, my! You ll find the answer inside this book it s packed with interjections. Dear me!...  Read More >>

Academic vocabulary is in fashion, as witnessed by the increasing number of books published on the topic. In the...  Read More >>

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The origin and early history of Targum Onqelos to the Pentateuch and Targum Jonathan to the Prophets have long been...  Read More >>

This book investigates the contact between Arawak and Tucanoan languages spoken in the Vaupés river basin in northwest...  Read More >>

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Examines the re-ascendancy of hypothetico-deductive theory over the inductivist theories of the early 20th century,...  Read More >>

Originally published: Names of God in the Old Testament. 1944.  Read More >>