Historical & comparative linguistics books

A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, this work focuses on its strange and wonderful grammar....  Read More >>

The papers in this volume discuss pivotal issues pertaining to the linguistic approaches to metaphors from theoretical...  Read More >>

This series promotes specialist language studies, both in the fields of linguistic theory and applied linguistics,...  Read More >>

The popular and lively guide to the language of evasion, hypocrisy, prudery, and deceit. Organized in A-Z format,...  Read More >>

Traces the importance of the Spanish language in the United States and presents an overview of the major varieties...  Read More >>

A dictionary of modern American Slang. It includes 25,000 entries, which are accompanied by citations that authenticate...  Read More >>

The accompanying student audio CD includes recorded vocabulary, focused listening, conversations, pronunciation,...  Read More >>

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Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Adam Mickiewicz University, 2005.  Read More >>

iVocab Biblical Hebrew 2.0 comprehensively updates and expands...  Read More >>

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A survey of Arabic and allied loanwords in Western languages is a first-rate tool to asses the impact of Islamic...  Read More >>

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Stavans offers the stirring story of how Hebrew was rescued from the fate of a dead language to become the living...  Read More >>

Examines the coding of the three coordination relations of combination, contrast and alternative on the basis of...  Read More >>

In the more than 140 years since the end of the American Civil War, the American language has changed considerably....  Read More >>

Studies in diachronic linguistics increasingly acknowledge that linguistic change is highly context-dependent and...  Read More >>

David M. Hoffeditz (PhD, University of Aberdeen) has taught beginning and intermediate Greek at the collegiate level...  Read More >>

This volume represents part of an unprecedented and still growing effort to advance, coordinate and disseminate...  Read More >>

The aim of this volume is to present a state-of-the-art view on corpus studies. This collection of papers, presented...  Read More >>

A guide to cockney rhyming slang. It explains the meaning of hundreds of terms, from old favourites such as apples...  Read More >>

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

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Features slang for both Spain and Latin America. This book indicates which expressions are used in which countries....  Read More >>