Historical & comparative linguistics books

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William J. Gedney's Comparative Tai Source Book

William J. Gedney's Comparative Tai Source Book

Author: Thomas John Hudak
ISBN: 9780824831905
Format: Paperback
$84.48

Provides data from 1,159 common cognates found in 19 dialects from the Tai language family. This volume focuses...  Read More >>

Forgotten Paths: Etymology and the Allegorical Mindset

Forgotten Paths: Etymology and the Allegorical Mindset...

Author: Davide Del Bello
ISBN: 9780813214849
Format: Hardback
$171.47

Examines texts from classical, medieval, and Renaissance culture with the intent to trace the links between etymological...  Read More >>

Touchdown Nouns

Touchdown Nouns

Author: Doris Fisher ,  D L Gibbs
ISBN: 9780836889130
Format: Paperback
$23.63

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Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon

Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon...

Author: Rick Derksen
ISBN: 9789004155046
Format: Hardback
$543.84

This dictionary in the Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series systematically and exhaustively deals...  Read More >>

Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon

Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon...

Author: Alwin Kloekhorst
ISBN: 9789004160927
Format: Hardback
$1296.24

This publication is the first etymological dictionary of the entire Hittite lexicon of Indo-European origin. Furthermore...  Read More >>

The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World

The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders...

Author: David W. Anthony
ISBN: 9780691058870
Format: Hardback
$118.80

Aims to solve a puzzle of the source of the Indo-European languages and English. This title reveals how their domestication...  Read More >>

Prepositional Infinitives in Romance: A Usage-based Approach to Syntactic Change

Prepositional Infinitives in Romance: A Usage-based...

Author: Kim Schulte ,  Graeme Davis
ISBN: 9783039113279
Format: Paperback
$153.18

This book examines the present-day distribution and diachronic evolution of a set of infinitival structures in Spanish,...  Read More >>

Japan's Built-in Lexicon of English-based Loanwords

Japan's Built-in Lexicon of English-based Loanwords...

Author: Frank E. Daulton
ISBN: 9781847690302
Format: Hardback
$232.75

Many of the most important English vocabulary may already exist in native lexicons. This pioneering book examines...  Read More >>

Syntax Handbook: Everything You Learned about Syntax (But Forgot)

Syntax Handbook: Everything You Learned about Syntax...

Author: Laura M Justice ,  Helen K Ezell
ISBN: 9781416404217
Format: Paperback
$147.84

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Bibliothecae Syriacae: Genesis, Exodus, Number, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and Kings

Bibliothecae Syriacae: Genesis, Exodus, Number, Joshua,...

Author: Paul Lagarde
ISBN: 9781556357145
Format: Paperback
$30.80

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1000 English Idioms: Home-grown and from Across the Pond

1000 English Idioms: Home-grown and from Across the...

Author: Foulsham
ISBN: 9780572033903
Format: Paperback
$44.75

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handel - heimkuh

handel - heimkuh

Author: Oliver Pfefferkorn ,  Ulrich Goebel
ISBN: 9783110196573
Format: Paperback
$385.44

The Early New High German Dictionary is an alphabetically-ordered dictionary of the varieties of High German from...  Read More >>

Divine Epithets in the Ugaritic Alphabetic Texts

Divine Epithets in the Ugaritic Alphabetic Texts

Author: Aicha Rahmouni ,  J. N. Ford
ISBN: 9789004157699
Format: Hardback
$583.44

This study of the divine epithets in the Ugaritic alphabetic cuneiform texts from Ras Shamra and Ras Ibn Hani provides...  Read More >>

De la Politesse Linguistique au Cameroun Linguistic Politeness in Cameroon: Approches Pragmatiques, Comparatives et Interculturelles Pragmatic, Comparative and Intercultural Approaches

De la Politesse Linguistique au Cameroun Linguistic...

Author: Bernard Mulo Farenkia ,  Bernard Mulo Farenkia
ISBN: 9783631571583
Format: Paperback
$142.83

En s'inspirant des travaux antérieurs (Goffman, Brown & Levinson, Kerbrat-Orecchioni, etc.), cet ouvrage entend...  Read More >>

Vocabulary and Writing in a First and Second Language: Processes and Development

Vocabulary and Writing in a First and Second Language:...

Author: Dorte Albrechtsen ,  Kirsten Haastrup
ISBN: 9781281915221
Format: Electronic book text
$277.20

Listening to the voices of learners as they write an essay or try to cope with unfamiliar words in a text is a luxury...  Read More >>

Teaching English Language Learners in Career and Technical Education Programs

Teaching English Language Learners in Career and Technical...

Author: Victor M Hernandez-Gantes (University of South Florida, USA) ,  William Blank (University of South Florida, USA)
ISBN: 9781281707321
Format: Electronic book text
$396.00

Exploring the unique challenges of vocational education, this book provides simple and straightforward advice on...  Read More >>

Lazily, Crazily, Just a Bit Nasally: More about Adverbs

Lazily, Crazily, Just a Bit Nasally: More about Adverbs...

Author: Brian P Cleary
ISBN: 9781281148049
Format: Electronic book text
$34.19

What is an adverb? It's hard to explain but easy to show and that's just what this book does, in rhyming, comical...  Read More >>

Schule M(m)Acht Geschlechter

Schule M(m)Acht Geschlechter

Author:
ISBN: 9783531913445
Format: Electronic book text
$158.37

Die durch die Schule und den Unterricht angebotenen Deutungsfolien, Handlungsmuster und Denkkonzepte uber Geschlecht...  Read More >>

The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, Volume 4: Professionalism and Diversity 1880–2000

The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, Volume...

Author: David Finkelstein (Cultural Historian) ,  Alistair McCleery (Professor of Literature and Culture, Napier University in Edinburgh)
ISBN: 9780748618293
Format: Hardback
$403.00

The early part of the period covered by this volume marked the centrality of the book as a vehicle of communication....  Read More >>

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