Historical & comparative linguistics books

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Beyond Yellow English: Toward a Linguistic Anthropology of Asian Pacific America

Beyond Yellow English: Toward a Linguistic Anthropology...
Author: Angela Reyes (Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Hunter College) , Adrienne Lo (Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology, Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign) ISBN: 9780195327359 Format: Hardback	$106.95
Beyond Yellow English is the first edited volume to examine issues of language, identity, and culture among the... Read More >>

An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary

An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader,...
Author: Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr. (University of Leiden) ISBN: 9789027232564 Format: Paperback	$142.56
This is the first text book to offer a comprehensive approach to Old Frisian. Part One begins with a succinct survey... Read More >>

Dinkum Dictionary

Dinkum Dictionary
Author: Susan Butler ISBN: 9781921351983 Format: Paperback	$25.95
This book describes the origins and usage of words ranging from Anzac to mulga, from kangaroo to sool. In covering... Read More >>

An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary

An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader,...
Author: Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr. (University of Leiden) ISBN: 9789027232557 Format: Hardback	$227.70
This is the first text book to offer a comprehensive approach to Old Frisian. Part One begins with a succinct survey... Read More >>

One Tittle Shall in No Wise Pass: Destroying the Scholarly Myth That God Did Not Inspire the Vowels of the Old Testament

One Tittle Shall in No Wise Pass: Destroying the Scholarly...
Author: Dr. Chester W. Kulus , Dr Chester W Kulus ISBN: 9780982060872 Format: Paperback	$79.20
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Jane Austen Dictionary

Jane Austen Dictionary
Author: Pauline E Kelly ISBN: 9780976881230 Format: Paperback	$50.03
When Jane Austen died in 1817, her legacy included six of the world's most beloved and enduring novels, yet much... Read More >>

Morphological Atlas of the Dutch Dialects: Volume II

Morphological Atlas of the Dutch Dialects: Volume II...
Author: Ton Goeman , Marc van Oostendorp ISBN: 9789053567753 Format: Paperback	$480.48
Morphological formations in the Dutch (and Frisian) dialects at the end of the twentieth century, volume II Read More >>

The Lingo Dictionary: Of Favourite Australian Words and Phrases

The Lingo Dictionary: Of Favourite Australian Words...
Author: John Miller ISBN: 9781921497049 Format: Paperback	$52.67
If you’ve ever wondered why your girlfriend’s a `Sheila’ even though her name is Kate, or why your friend in the... Read More >>

Historical Discourse: The Language of Time, Cause and Evaluation

Historical Discourse: The Language of Time, Cause and...
Author: Dr Caroline Coffin ISBN: 9781847065735 Format: Paperback	$120.00
In contrast to studies which have denied that history has a specialised language, this work demonstrates through... Read More >>

Studies in Chinese Language: Volume 8

Studies in Chinese Language: Volume 8
Author: Jonathan J. Webster (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) , M.A.K. Halliday (University of Sydney, Australia) ISBN: 9781847065759 Format: Paperback	$180.00
Offers a detailed survey of the Chinese language. This eighth volume approaches the Chinese language from several... Read More >>

Stressing the past: Papers on Baltic and Slavic accentology

Stressing the past: Papers on Baltic and Slavic accentology...
Author: Thomas Olander , Jenny Helena Larsson ISBN: 9789042025554 Format: Hardback	$163.68
From a synchronic point of view, the various accentuation systems found in the Baltic and Slavic languages differ... Read More >>

The Slovene Dialect of Egg and Potschach in the Gailtal, Austria

The Slovene Dialect of Egg and Potschach in the Gailtal,...
Author: Tijmen Pronk ISBN: 9789042027749 Format: Hardback	$286.44
Slovene is one of the most dialectally diverse languages of Europe, consisting of 37 dialects. This book gives a... Read More >>

From Creole to Standard: Shakespeare, Language, and Literature in a Postcolonial Context

From Creole to Standard: Shakespeare, Language, and...
Author: Roshni Mooneeram ISBN: 9789042026230 Format: Hardback	$204.60
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Latin Infancy Gospels

Latin Infancy Gospels
Author: Montague Rhodes James ISBN: 9781606083086 Format: Paperback	$36.96
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The Facts on File Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins

The Facts on File Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins...
Author: Robert Hendrickson ISBN: 9780816069668 Format: Hardback	$192.50
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The Spanish Language of New Mexico and Southern Colorado: A Linguistic Atlas

The Spanish Language of New Mexico and Southern Colorado:...
Author: G.D. Bills , Neddy A. Vigil ISBN: 9780826345493 Format: Hardback	$171.60
Details the effects of inevitable encroachment that intensified during the twentieth century and seriously threaten... Read More >>

A Lexicon, Hebrew, Chaldee, and English

A Lexicon, Hebrew, Chaldee, and English
Author: Samuel Lee ISBN: 9781606080658 Format: Paperback	$153.12
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Pocket Paradigms: For Biblical Hebrew

Pocket Paradigms: For Biblical Hebrew
Author: Mark D Futato, M.DIV., M.A., Ph.D. ISBN: 9781597524490 Format: Paperback	$12.95
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The Book of Words: An Entertaining Look at Words and How We Have Come to Use Them

The Book of Words: An Entertaining Look at Words and...
Author: Glynne Jones ISBN: 9780785824480 Format: Hardback	$21.09
This book looks at words in all their glory, from the origins of language and vocabulary to modern slang, jargon... Read More >>

Issues in Accents of English

Issues in Accents of English
Author: Ewa Waniek-Klimczak ISBN: 9781847188649 Format: Hardback	$158.37
Adopting a central theme of variability, the book explores different aspects of native and non-native accents of... Read More >>

Lectures on the Comparative Grammar of the Semitic Languages

Lectures on the Comparative Grammar of the Semitic Languages...
Author: William Wright (University of Tennessee) ISBN: 9781606083475 Format: Paperback	$68.64
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The Subjunctive in the Age of Prescriptivism: English and German Developments During the Eighteenth Century

The Subjunctive in the Age of Prescriptivism: English...
Author: A. Auer , Kenneth A. Loparo ISBN: 9781349365258 Format: Paperback	$116.41
This monograph focuses on the description, use and development of the inflectional subjunctive in English and German... Read More >>

Progressive Lessons in Hebrew

Progressive Lessons in Hebrew
Author: Romain Butin ISBN: 9781606083482 Format: Paperback	$58.08
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The Subjunctive in the Age of Prescriptivism: English and German Developments During the Eighteenth Century

The Subjunctive in the Age of Prescriptivism: English...
Author: A. Auer , Kenneth A. Loparo ISBN: 9780230574410 Format: Hardback	$116.41
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A Descriptive and Comparative Grammar of Western Old Japanese: Part 2: Adjectives, Verbs, Conjunctions, Particles, Postpositions, Indexes

A Descriptive and Comparative Grammar of Western Old...
Author: Alexander Vovin ISBN: 9781905246823 Format: Hardback	$554.40
Together with Part 1 of the same grammar (Sources, Script and Phonology, Lexicon and Nominals), this two-volume... Read More >>

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