Historical & comparative linguistics books

Swearing is an everyday part of the language of most speakers of modern English. This corpus informed account of...  Read More >>

Weird English explores experimental and unorthodox uses of English by multilingual writers traveling from the canonical...  Read More >>

Drawing upon esoteric sources and his own expertise, Elster uses a Q&A format to cover a variety of topics--word...  Read More >>

With entries such as ""bite the bullet"" and ""leap of faith,"" this tongue-in-cheek reference to idioms and their...  Read More >>

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These papers are offered by colleagues and students past and present on the occasion of Professor Toril Swan's sixtieth...  Read More >>

Armor of God pamphlet helps teachers and leaders bring Apostle Paul's message to the Ephesians (6:10-18) to life....  Read More >>

Language contact between Russian and Kyrgyz speakers in the Kyrgyz Soviet Socialist Republic and in present day...  Read More >>

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The Aramaic papyri found on the island of Elephantine, Egypt (ancient Yeb, opposite Syene) come from the fifth century...  Read More >>

A History of the Greek Language is a kaleidoscopic collection of ideas on the development of the Greek language...  Read More >>

Laid out in an A-Z format with detailed cross references, and written in a style that is both authoritative and...  Read More >>

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Starting from its Indo-European past, this title surveys the development of the English language. Beginning with...  Read More >>

Presents a collection of short, readable descriptions of various American dialects. This work includes Southern...  Read More >>

Including slang, acronyms, a bibliography, an introduction that discusses recent trends in business language, and...  Read More >>

Presents a collection of short, readable descriptions of various American dialects. This work includes Southern...  Read More >>

All previous Biblical Hebrew lexicons have provided a modern western...  Read More >>

This volume is the first comprehensive and systematic description of the dialect geography of the Arabic language...  Read More >>

Always a best-seller, enjoy two entertaining and informative language books by two fine writers. InWord Myths, author...  Read More >>

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In the present little book, I merely endeavor to draw out a general sketch of some of the more important principles...  Read More >>

This extensive and versatile dictionary provides unrivalled coverage of New Zealand and international English in...  Read More >>

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