Historical & comparative linguistics books

Language, more than anything else, is what makes us human. It appears that no communication system of equivalent...  Read More >>

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American English in Mind is an integrated, four-skills course for beginner to advanced teenage learners of American...  Read More >>

"Freeman, one of America's foremost language experts and acclaimed author of the ""Boston Globe's"" weekly column...  Read More >>

Describes more than one hundred primary sources in order to provide a picture of the infancy of the study of medieval...  Read More >>

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

A dictionary of slang and a slang thesaurus that includes words which are visually coded to help readers distinguish...  Read More >>

In der Reihe Biblia Coptica erscheint erstmals eine systematische Zusammenstellung aller Bibeltexte zum Alten und...  Read More >>

This volume of the Iranisches Personennamenbuch (Lexicon of Iranian personal names) presents a full collection and...  Read More >>

This work will be useful as a reference tool for those interested in the history of the Mongolic languages providing...  Read More >>

Papers presented at the 3rd International Conference on Late Modern English, held at the University of Leiden in...  Read More >>

In recent years, there has been a new interest in evaluating 'complex' structures in languages. The implications...  Read More >>

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With Other Rabbinical Texts, English Translations And The Itala.  Read More >>

A collection of articles on the transmission of Arabic learning to Europe that focuses on the identity of the Latin...  Read More >>

This book presents a collection of fresh research on language contacts and dialects, and the interface between the...  Read More >>

This dictionary is a treasure trove covering 2000 years of Ancient Greek: from Mycenaean via Homer and the classical...  Read More >>

This landmark publication in comparative linguistics is the first comprehensive work to address the general issue...  Read More >>

Melvyn Bragg's fascinating biography of the English language  Read More >>

This fascicle contains 656 entries, namely 656 individuals with 458 names. The very detailed Introduction has 20...  Read More >>

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The Historical Thesaurus of the OED is the largest thesaurus in the world and the first historical thesaurus to...  Read More >>

This volume contains a selection of papers from the 4th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe...  Read More >>

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