Historical & comparative linguistics books

Presents a comprehensive introduction to the history of English. This book covers the origins of English, the change...  Read More >>

A guide to more than 4,500 foreign expressions in the English language. It presents information on the origins and...  Read More >>

Presents a comprehensive introduction to the history of English. This book covers the origins of English, the change...  Read More >>

New Testament Greek Intermediate is the companion volume to New Testament Greek Primer. The Intermediate text reviews...  Read More >>

New Testament Greek Intermediate is the companion volume to New Testament Greek Primer. The Intermediate text reviews...  Read More >>

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The book examines the aspects of focus within the recent minimalist paradigm. Focus is viewed here as a grammar’s...  Read More >>

This Companion, now available in a paperback format, brings together more than 60 distinguished contributors to...  Read More >>

This text builds English language skills and vocabulary by studying Latin and Greek roots and how they are used...  Read More >>

In February 2006 the first international conference on Multilingualism and Applied Comparative Linguistics (MACL)...  Read More >>

Ten essays explore the connections between the language and culture of South Carolina’s barrier islands, West Africa,...  Read More >>

This book presents Dean John William Burgon's comments dealing with the false and erroneous New Testament Greek...  Read More >>

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The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation is filled with easy-to-understand rules,real-world examples, dozens of...  Read More >>

This volume and its companion one Theoretical and empirical issues in grammaticalization offer a selection of papers...  Read More >>

Conversational English is a language-learning and language-practicing program containing more than 1500 expressions...  Read More >>

The present study is the first large-scale investigation of the syntax of Old Japanese (mainly eighth-century Japanese)....  Read More >>

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The student of Hebrew need master a vocabulary of less than 800 words to have learned all the verbs occurring twenty-five...  Read More >>

Taking a functional-typological approach, this work argues that the Sumerian conjugation prefixes, in their primary...  Read More >>

A new etymological dictionary of the entire Latin lexicon of Indo-European origin, and of the inherited stock of...  Read More >>

This thorough supplemental workbook leaves no stone unturned! Presenting a twelve-step process for analyzing the...  Read More >>

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Features records of six early Mayan languages: Ixil, Morpan, Q'eqchi', Tojolab'al, Tzotzil and Yukatek.  Read More >>

This volume aims to make a contribution to codifying the methods and practices linguists use to recover language...  Read More >>