Historical & comparative linguistics books

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Venetian-English English-Venetian: When in Venice Do as the Venetians

Venetian-English English-Venetian: When in Venice Do...
Author: Lodovico Pizzati ISBN: 9781425987909 Format: Paperback	$94.91
Have you ever wondered what gondoliers speak to one another across Venetian canals? No Italian dictionary will help... Read More >>

McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Idioms Dictionary

McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Idioms Dictionary...
Author: Richard Spears ISBN: 9780071478939 Format: Paperback	$62.95
Covers more than 14,000 idiomatic forms in American English, exemplified with contextual sentences. Read More >>

Linguistic Authority, Language Ideology, and Metaphor: The Czech Orthography Wars

Linguistic Authority, Language Ideology, and Metaphor:...
Author: Neil Bermel ISBN: 9783110185966 Format: Hardback	$330.00
How does a country find itself 'at war' over spelling? This book focuses on the linguistic history of a nation at... Read More >>

The Shakespearean Name: Essays on Romeo and Juliet, the Tempest and Other Plays

The Shakespearean Name: Essays on Romeo and Juliet,...
Author: David Lucking ISBN: 9783039112265 Format: Paperback	$165.60
This book comprises ten essays on Shakespearean drama, the majority of which focus on the problem of language and... Read More >>

Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources: Fascicule X: Pel-Phi

Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources: Fascicule...
Author: David Howlett (Editor, Dictionary of Medieval Latin) ISBN: 9780197263877 Format: Paperback	$171.60
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Language, Citizenship and Identity in Quebec

Language, Citizenship and Identity in Quebec
Author: L. Oakes , J. Warren ISBN: 9780230580107 Format: Paperback	$232.85
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Diachronic Syntax

Diachronic Syntax
Author: Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge) ISBN: 9780199253982 Format: Paperback	$158.40
This book shows how the generative approach to linguistics may be used to understand how languages change. Generative... Read More >>

Language, Citizenship and Identity in Quebec

Language, Citizenship and Identity in Quebec
Author: L. Oakes , J. Warren ISBN: 9781403949752 Format: Hardback	$264.00
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Grammars in Contact: A Cross-Linguistic Typology

Grammars in Contact: A Cross-Linguistic Typology
Author: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (, The Cairns Institute, James Cook University) , R.M.W. Dixon (, The Cairns Institute, James Cook University) ISBN: 9780199207831 Format: Hardback	$306.95
The present volume examines the ways in which linguistic traits may change in a contact situation. It contains an... Read More >>

The Development of Greek and the New Testament: Morphology, Syntax, Phonology, and Textual Transmission

The Development of Greek and the New Testament: Morphology,...
Author: Chrys C. Caragounis ISBN: 9780801032301 Format: Paperback	$198.00
Languages inevitably evolve, and our understanding of texts from particular times and places must be illuminated... Read More >>

Greek at a Glance (Stapled Booklet): Summary Reference Sheets for Readers of New Testament Greek

Greek at a Glance (Stapled Booklet): Summary Reference...
Author: Paul Fullmer , Robert H Smith ISBN: 9781556351013 Format: Paperback	$4.20
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The Western Classical Tradition in Linguistics

The Western Classical Tradition in Linguistics
Author: Keith Allan ISBN: 9781904768968 Format: Paperback	$79.07
Examines ancient, medieval, post-renaissance, and modern conceptions of linguistics. This work also identifies a... Read More >>

Introductory Syriac Method and Manual

Introductory Syriac Method and Manual
Author: Robert Dick Wilson , K C Hanson ISBN: 9781556350634 Format: Paperback	$71.28
Introductory Syriac method and manual. This book, Introductory Syriac method and manual, by Robert Dick Wilson,... Read More >>

Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora: Volume 2: Diachronic Databases

Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora: Volume 2:...
Author: J. Beal , K. Corrigan ISBN: 9781349522354 Format: Paperback	$232.85
A range of electronic corpora has become accessible via the WWW and CD-ROM. This coincides with improvements in... Read More >>

Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora: Volume 1: Synchronic Databases

Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora: Volume 1:...
Author: J. Beal , K. Corrigan ISBN: 9781349522330 Format: Paperback	$232.85
A range of electronic corpora is increasingly accessible via the WWW and CD-ROM. This development coincided with... Read More >>

Greek is Good Grief

Greek is Good Grief
Author: John D Harvey ISBN: 9781597529631 Format: Paperback	$84.48
Designed as a textbook for teaching introductory Greek grammar and syntax, Greek Is Good Grief uses a graded database,... Read More >>

A Glossary of Historical Linguistics

A Glossary of Historical Linguistics
Author: Lyle Campbell , Mauricio J Mixco ISBN: 9780874808933 Format: Paperback	$52.67
An essential supplement to courses in historical linguistics (the study of language change) and the history of individual... Read More >>

Advances in Old Frisian Philology

Advances in Old Frisian Philology
Author: Rolf H. Bremmer Jr. , Stephen Laker ISBN: 9789042021815 Format: Paperback	$250.80
Like its two predecessors, Aspects of Old Frisian Philology (1990) and Approaches to Old Frisian Philology (1998),... Read More >>

Fopdoodle and Salmagundi: Words and Meanings from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary That Time Forgot

Fopdoodle and Salmagundi: Words and Meanings from Samuel...
Author: Samuel Johnson , Edward Allhusen ISBN: 9781873590638 Format: Hardback	$52.80
Fopdoodle, salmagundi, kissingcrust, runnion and stingo are all endangered for lack of use. This work reveals a... Read More >>

ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese

ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese
Author: Axel Schuessler ISBN: 9780824829759 Format: Hardback	$168.96
Based on investigation in primary and secondary sources, this dictionary places Old Chinese squarely within the... Read More >>

Historical Linguistics: Theory and Method

Historical Linguistics: Theory and Method
Author: Mark Hale (Concordia University) ISBN: 9780631196624 Format: Paperback	$76.95
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Ingles Elemental Ilustrado Libro Primero

Ingles Elemental Ilustrado Libro Primero
Author: Roberto A Gonzalez ISBN: 9781880196021 Format: Paperback	$15.71
Gonzalezs text provides basic English conversational words and phrases to help Spanish-speaking persons communicate.... Read More >>

New Part Dict Mod Amer Slang

New Part Dict Mod Amer Slang
Author: Dalzell ISBN: 9780415303910 Format: Hardback	$62.00
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Insights into Late Modern English

Insights into Late Modern English
Author: Marina Dossena , Charles Jones ISBN: 9783039112579 Format: Paperback	$269.10
Selection of papers and plenary lectures presented at the 1st International Conference on Late Modern English, held... Read More >>

A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language

A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language...
Author: Walter W. Skeat ISBN: 9781430458500 Format: Paperback	$121.31
Provides a number of words, including those frequently used in everyday speech and those most prominent in literature.... Read More >>

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