Historical & comparative linguistics books

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A Grammar of the Old Testament in Greek

A Grammar of the Old Testament in Greek
Author: H St J Thackeray , K C Hanson ISBN: 9781606081662 Format: Paperback	$79.20
Thackeray's treatment of the Septuagint's grammar is a masterful reference work, which moved Septuagintal study... Read More >>

Nike, Nurses and Neon: The Ancient Greek and Latin Words We Use Every Day

Nike, Nurses and Neon: The Ancient Greek and Latin Words...
Author: Nigel Brown ISBN: 9781844546503 Format: Hardback	$44.75
Showing you how the Pacific Ocean got its name, what a Pyrrhic victory is, or where the guitar came, this book reveals... Read More >>

Writing the Other: Humanism versus Barbarism in Tudor England

Writing the Other: Humanism versus Barbarism in Tudor...
Author: Mike Pincombe , Mike Pincombe ISBN: 9781847188359 Format: Hardback	$139.89
An international group of scholars working in early modern English literature and culture have been invited to reflect... Read More >>

In Babel's Shadow: Language, Philology, and Nation in Nineteenth-century Germany

In Babel's Shadow: Language, Philology, and Nation in...
Author: Tuska Benes ISBN: 9780814333044 Format: Hardback	$115.50
Presents a comprehensive cultural history of the language sciences in nineteenth-century Germany. This book situates... Read More >>

Babylonisch-Assyrisches Glossar

Babylonisch-Assyrisches Glossar
Author: Carl Bezold, PhD , K C Hanson ISBN: 9781606081457 Format: Paperback	$79.20
In this classic Akkadian glossary, Bezold provides a brief entry for each word. He provides definitions in German... Read More >>

Spanglish

Spanglish
Author: Ilan Stavans ISBN: 9780313348044 Format: Hardback	$90.00
Spanglish-a hybrid of Spanish and English-is intricately interwoven with the history and culture of Latinos, the... Read More >>

Complementation: A Cross-Linguistic Typology

Complementation: A Cross-Linguistic Typology
Author: R.M.W. Dixon (, The Cairns Institute, James Cook University) , Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (, The Cairns Institute, James Cook University) ISBN: 9780199556663 Format: Paperback	$100.95
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Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, and Essences; With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory

Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of...
Author: Roy Blount, Jr., JR. , Roy Blount, Jr., JR. ISBN: 9781427204936 Format: Undefined	$65.87
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Syntax of the Moods and Tenses in New Testament Greek (1892)

Syntax of the Moods and Tenses in New Testament Greek...
Author: Ernest de Witt Burton ISBN: 9781437087345 Format: Paperback	$71.15
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Syntactical Comparisons Between Classical Hebrew and Classical Arabic: A Study Based on the Translation of Mohammad CId's Arabic Grammar

Syntactical Comparisons Between Classical Hebrew and...
Author: Ihab Joseph Griess ISBN: 9780773450134 Format: Hardback	$316.67
Introduces the reader to the different grammatical schools of Arabic, including the resurgence of 'Judaeo-Arabic'... Read More >>

Syntax of the Moods and Tenses in New Testament Greek (1892)

Syntax of the Moods and Tenses in New Testament Greek...
Author: Ernest de Witt Burton ISBN: 9781437216479 Format: Hardback	$110.75
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Dirty French: Everyday Slang from 'What's Up?' to 'F*%# Off'

Dirty French: Everyday Slang from 'What's Up?' to 'F*%#...
Author: Adrien Clautrier , Henry Rowe ISBN: 9781569756584 Format: Paperback	$26.40
No body speaks in strictly formal address anymore. Not even in France, where the common expressioned tossed around... Read More >>

Existence: Semantics and Syntax

Existence: Semantics and Syntax
Author: Ileana Comorovski , Klaus Heusinger ISBN: 9781402061981 Format: Paperback	$211.07
Ileana Comorovski Klaus von Heusinger vii ILEANA COMOROVSKI AND KLAUS VON HEUSINGER INTRODUCTION The notion of ‘existence’,... Read More >>

Continuity and Innovation in the Aramaic Legal Tradition

Continuity and Innovation in the Aramaic Legal Tradition...
Author: Andrew Gross ISBN: 9789004152847 Format: Leather / fine binding	$343.20
This book argues that Aramaic scribes from antiquity drew upon a common legal tradition. It identifies the distinctive... Read More >>

Booher's Rules of Business Grammar: 101 Fast and Easy Ways to Correct the Most Common Errors

Booher's Rules of Business Grammar: 101 Fast and Easy...
Author: Dianna Booher ISBN: 9781280583650 Format: Electronic book text	$53.70
Easy memory tricks to ensure propergrammar in business presentations, emails,letters, and much more Read More >>

Secret Life of Words

Secret Life of Words
Author: Henry Hitchings , Hitchings ISBN: 9780374254100 Format: Hardback	$71.28
The Secret Life of Words is a wide-ranging account not only of the history of English language and vocabulary,... Read More >>

Biblical Exegesis of New Testament Greek: James

Biblical Exegesis of New Testament Greek: James
Author: Craig Price ISBN: 9781556359729 Format: Paperback	$84.48
Description: Biblical Exegesis of New Testament Greek: James is a workbook designed to guide the beginning- to intermediate-Greek... Read More >>

Stone the Crows: Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang

Stone the Crows: Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang
Author: John Ayto , John Simpson ISBN: 9780199543700 Format: Hardback	$50.03
Drawing on the unique resources of the Oxford English Dictionary and offering coverage of over 6,000 slang words... Read More >>

Chinese Lexicography: A History from 1046 BC to AD 1911

Chinese Lexicography: A History from 1046 BC to AD 1911...
Author: Heming Yong (, Guangdong University of Business Studies) , Jing Peng (, Guangdong University of Business Studies) ISBN: 9780199539826 Format: Hardback	$373.95
The first account in English of the history of Chinese lexicography traces its development from 1046 BC to AD 1911.... Read More >>

Biblical Exegesis of New Testament Greek: James

Biblical Exegesis of New Testament Greek: James
Author: W Craig Price ISBN: 9781498211147 Format: Hardback	$142.56
Biblical Exegesis of New Testament Greek: James is a workbook designed to guide the beginning- to intermediate-Greek... Read More >>

Hebrew Grammar for Beginners

Hebrew Grammar for Beginners
Author: William B Stevenson ISBN: 9781606081013 Format: Paperback	$18.48
Wipf and Stock Publishers: By combining innovative technology with academic excellence, we are able to produce affordable... Read More >>

The Holy Tongue: And How It Changed the Course of History

The Holy Tongue: And How It Changed the Course of History...
Author: Benjamin Gross ISBN: 9781934440018 Format: Hardback	$73.79
What is special about the Hebrew language? Should it, by its very essence, be considered a holy tongue or a language... Read More >>

Professional English in Use, Law (South Asian Edition)

Professional English in Use, Law (South Asian Edition)...
Author: Gillian D Brown , Sally Rice ISBN: 9780521736404 Format: Paperback	$76.56
Professional English in Use Law is a brand new addition to the Professional English in Use series. Read More >>

BMH as Body Language: A Lexical and Iconographical Study of the Word BMH When Not a Reference to Cultic Phenomena in Biblical and Post-Biblical Hebrew

BMH as Body Language: A Lexical and Iconographical Study...
Author: Dr. W. Boyd Barrick ISBN: 9780567026583 Format: Hardback	$300.00
Provides an examination of the Hebrew word BMH in biblical and post-biblical passages where it supposedly carries... Read More >>

Fishing and Folk: Life and Dialect on the North Sea Coast

Fishing and Folk: Life and Dialect on the North Sea...
Author: Bill Griffiths ISBN: 9781904794288 Format: Paperback	$42.11
Combining dialect vocabulary and literature as a way of explaining the North Sea Coast including scenery, weather,... Read More >>

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