Historical & comparative linguistics books

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Stunned Mullets and Two-pot Screamers: A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms

Stunned Mullets and Two-pot Screamers: A Dictionary...

Author: Wilkes (Challis Professor of English Literature (Retired), Challis Professor of English Literature (Retired), University of Sydney, Australia)
ISBN: 9780195563160
Format: Paperback
$66.95

Stunned mullets and Two-pot screamers: a Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms is a revealing guide to the richness...  Read More >>

Sentence Skills: A Workbook for Writers, Form B

Sentence Skills: A Workbook for Writers, Form B

Author: John Langan
ISBN: 9780073533278
Format: Paperback
$272.58

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Origin and Evolution of Languages: Approaches, Models, Paradigms

Origin and Evolution of Languages: Approaches, Models,...

Author: Bernard Laks
ISBN: 9781845532048
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Debates the issues in the field of the origin and evolution of language through interdisciplinary perspectives from...  Read More >>

Hebrew-Greek Key Word Study Bible-KJV

Hebrew-Greek Key Word Study Bible-KJV

Author: Dr Spiros Zodhiates ,  Dr Warren Patrick Baker, D R E
ISBN: 9780899577494
Format: Leather / fine binding
$211.17

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KJV Hebrew-Greek Key Word Study Bible Burgundy, The

KJV Hebrew-Greek Key Word Study Bible Burgundy, The...

Author: Spiros Zodhiates ,  Warr Baker
ISBN: 9780899577470
Format: Leather / fine binding
$184.77

There are times when a Greek or Hebrew word has a distinct meaning that seriously affects the proper interpretation...  Read More >>

Speech Acts in the History of English

Speech Acts in the History of English

Author: Andreas H. Jucker (University of Zurich) ,  Irma Taavitsainen (University of Helsinki)
ISBN: 9789027254207
Format: Hardback
$227.70

Addresses such questions as: Did earlier speakers of English use the same speech acts that we use today? Did they...  Read More >>

Global WORDing: The Fascinating Story of the Evolution of English

Global WORDing: The Fascinating Story of the Evolution...

Author: Charles Hodgson ,  Charles Hodgson
ISBN: 9781427203304
Format: Audio
$34.19

From the creator of the popular Podictionary podcast--an informative yet highly entertaining history of the English...  Read More >>

International Trade Theory: A Critical Review. Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy.

International Trade Theory: A Critical Review. Routledge...

Author: Murray Kemp (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)
ISBN: 9781281394453
Format: Electronic book text
$506.88

Murray C. Kemp is one of Australia's foremost economists. He has held positions across the world including London...  Read More >>

A Linguistic History of the Forgotten Islands: A Reconstruction of the Proto-language of the Southern Ryūkyūs

A Linguistic History of the Forgotten Islands: A Reconstruction...

Author: John R. Bentley ,  Alexander Vovin
ISBN: 9781905246571
Format: Hardback
$398.64

Sakishima comprises a group of islands situated between Okinawa and Taiwan, forming a culturally important bridge...  Read More >>

Explorations into Language Use in Africa

Explorations into Language Use in Africa

Author: Martin Pütz ,  Augustin Simo Bobda
ISBN: 9783631562390
Format: Paperback
$253.70

Emanation and extension of the 30th International LAUD Symposium, held Apr. 19-22, 2004 at the Universiteat Koblenz-Landau....  Read More >>

Language Evolution: Contact, Competition and Change

Language Evolution: Contact, Competition and Change...

Author: Salikoko S. Mufwene
ISBN: 9780826493705
Format: Paperback
$92.27

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Greek-English Lexicon of the Septuagint

Greek-English Lexicon of the Septuagint

Author: J. Lust ,  E. Eynikel
ISBN: 9781598562897
Format: Hardback
$316.67

The Greek-English Lexicon of the Septuagint provides a thorough research tool for the study of the Septuagint. It...  Read More >>

Language Evolution: Contact, Competition and Change

Language Evolution: Contact, Competition and Change...

Author: Salikoko S. Mufwene
ISBN: 9780826493699
Format: Hardback
$370.00

Examines the processes by which languages change, from the macroecological perspective of competition and natural...  Read More >>

NASB Hebrew-Greek Key Word Study Bible GL Burgundy

NASB Hebrew-Greek Key Word Study Bible GL Burgundy

Author: Spiros Zodhiates ,  Warr Baker
ISBN: 9780899577548
Format: Leather / fine binding
$211.17

Dr. Spiros Zodhiates' greatest contribution to Bible students everywhere is the Hebrew-Greek Key Word Study Bible,...  Read More >>

Building Up Aspect: A study of aspect and related categories in Bulgarian, with parallels in English and French

Building Up Aspect: A study of aspect and related categories...

Author: Karl Bernhardt ,  Graeme Davis
ISBN: 9783039105588
Format: Paperback
$129.25

This book addresses the problems of the nature of the category of aspect, its formal expression and its relation...  Read More >>

Formal Description of Slavic Languages: The Fifth Conference, Leipzig 2003

Formal Description of Slavic Languages: The Fifth Conference,...

Author: Gerhild Zybatow ,  Luka Szucsich
ISBN: 9783631551608
Format: Paperback
$203.64

The conferences «Formal Description of Slavic Languages» stand for the application of recent formal models in linguistics...  Read More >>

McGraw-Hill's Essential American Slang

McGraw-Hill's Essential American Slang

Author: Richard Spears
ISBN: 9780071497855
Format: Paperback
$34.19

Covering American English, this reference defines and explains hundreds of contemporary American slang expressions...  Read More >>

Business Vocabulary in Use Elementary (Japanese Edition)

Business Vocabulary in Use Elementary (Japanese Edition)...

Author: Bill Mascull
ISBN: 9784902290219
Format: Paperback
$64.68

Business Vocabulary in Use Elementary provides basic, essential vocabulary in a business context for learners of...  Read More >>

Chinese as a Heritage Language: Fostering a Rooted World Economy

Chinese as a Heritage Language: Fostering a Rooted World...

Author: Agnes Weiyun Hu ,  Yun Xiao
ISBN: 9780824832865
Format: Paperback
$105.60

Examines the sociocultural, cognitive-linguistic, and educational-institutional trajectories along which Chinese...  Read More >>

The Cultural Study of Yiddish in Early Modern Europe

The Cultural Study of Yiddish in Early Modern Europe...

Author: J. Frakes
ISBN: 9781403975478
Format: Hardback
$224.40

A unique analysis of the intensive interest in Jewish culture of early modern Christian Humanists as a part of their...  Read More >>

Face2face Upper Intermediate Workbook with Key (Vietnam Edition)

Face2face Upper Intermediate Workbook with Key (Vietnam...

Author: Chris Redston (ELT freelance author) ,  Gillie Cunningham (ELT freelance author)
ISBN: 9780521732871
Format: Paperback
$36.96

Based on the communicative approach, and drawing on the best of current thinking and practice, this major new course...  Read More >>

Language and the Law: International Outlooks

Language and the Law: International Outlooks

Author: Krzysztof Kredens ,  Stanislaw Gozdz-Roszkowski
ISBN: 9783631574478
Format: Paperback
$263.87

Scholarship in language and the law is these days developing at an unprecedented rate, as the academic presence...  Read More >>

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