Historical & comparative linguistics books

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What's it Like Mate!

What's it Like Mate!

Author: Andrew Howey
ISBN: 9780909608989
Format: Paperback
$19.95

A collection of Aussie-Strine sayings such as: 'Like a bandicoot on a burnt bridge', 'Raining cats and dogs', 'All...  Read More >>

Oxford Guide to World English

Oxford Guide to World English

Author: Tom McArthur
ISBN: 9780198607717
Format: Paperback
$27.95

This is a survey of English both as a pre-eminent world language and as an increasingly divergent language. It...  Read More >>

Vietnamese-English Bilingualism: Patterns of Code-Switching

Vietnamese-English Bilingualism: Patterns of Code-Switching...

Author: Ho-Dac Tuc
ISBN: 9780700713226
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This is a theoretically informed study on code-switching presenting a new approach to code-switching between tonal...  Read More >>

War Slang: American Fighting Words and Phrases Since the Civil War, Second Edition

War Slang: American Fighting Words and Phrases Since...

Author: Paul Dickson
ISBN: 9781574887105
Format: Paperback
$65.87

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Compendious Syriac Grammar

Compendious Syriac Grammar

Author: Theodor Noeldeke ,  James a Crichton
ISBN: 9781592443550
Format: Paperback
$66.00

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Dynamical Grammar

Dynamical Grammar

Author: Peter W. Culicover (, Ohio State University) ,  Andrzej Nowak (, Florida Atlantic University)
ISBN: 9780198700258
Format: Paperback
$119.95

Dynamical Grammar explores the consequences for language acquisition, language evolution, and linguistic theory...  Read More >>

Dynamical Grammar

Dynamical Grammar

Author: Peter W. Culicover (, Ohio State University) ,  Andrzej Nowak (, Florida Atlantic University)
ISBN: 9780198700265
Format: Hardback
$300.95

This text explores the consequences for language acquisition, evolution and theory of taking the underlying architecture...  Read More >>

Old Japanese: A Phonetic Reconstruction

Old Japanese: A Phonetic Reconstruction

Author: Marc Hideo Miyake
ISBN: 9780415305754
Format: Hardback
$305.00

What did eighth century Japanese sound like? How does one decode its complex script? This book provides the definitive...  Read More >>

Leben - leschen

Leben - leschen

Author: Anja Lobenstein-Reichmann ,  Oskar Reichmann
ISBN: 9783110175820
Format: Paperback
$480.48

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

Geschmack: Untersuchungen zu Wortsemantik und Begriff im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert. Gleichzeitig ein Beitrag zur Lexikographie von Begriffswörtern

Geschmack: Untersuchungen zu Wortsemantik und Begriff...

Author: Dominik Brückner
ISBN: 9783110178739
Format: Hardback
$257.31

In dieser Arbeit wird erstmals versucht, das gesamte semantische Spektrum des Wortes ""Geschmack"" in seiner ""grossen...  Read More >>

The Aramaic Gospels & Acts Companion

The Aramaic Gospels & Acts Companion

Author: Joseph Pashka
ISBN: 9781591601630
Format: Paperback
$39.57

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Renaissance Truth and the Latin Language Turn

Renaissance Truth and the Latin Language Turn

Author: Ann Moss (, Professor of French and Head of Modern European Languages, University of Durham)
ISBN: 9780199249879
Format: Hardback
$278.95

A look at an era of radical change in the history of West European thought, the period between 1480 and 1540. The...  Read More >>

A Handbook of Germanic Etymology

A Handbook of Germanic Etymology

Author: Orel
ISBN: 9789004128750
Format: Hardback
$652.08

This volume contains a reconstruction of Proto-Germanic vocabulary attested in ancient and modern Germanic languages...  Read More >>

New Testament Greek Manuscripts: 1 Corinthians

New Testament Greek Manuscripts: 1 Corinthians

Author: Reuben Swanson
ISBN: 9780865850729
Format: Paperback
$131.97

This title is no longer available from Tyndale, but it can be purchased through the William Carey Library at: www.missionbooks.org<br/>...  Read More >>

History of the Translation of the Holy Scriptures Into the English Tongue: With Specimens of the Old English Versions

History of the Translation of the Holy Scriptures Into...

Author: H. C. Conant
ISBN: 9781592443437
Format: Paperback
$79.20

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Optimality Theory and Language Change

Optimality Theory and Language Change

Author: D.E. Holt
ISBN: 9781402014703
Format: Paperback
$366.96

It is of interest for historical linguists, researchers into Optimality Theory and linguistic theory, and for phonologists...  Read More >>

Optimality Theory and Language Change

Optimality Theory and Language Change

Author: D.E. Holt
ISBN: 9781402014697
Format: Hardback
$630.96

It is of interest for historical linguists, researchers into Optimality Theory and linguistic theory, and for phonologists...  Read More >>

If I Could Turn My Tongue Like That: The Creole Language of Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana

If I Could Turn My Tongue Like That: The Creole Language...

Author: Thomas Klingler
ISBN: 9780807127797
Format: Hardback
$211.07

This work is an in-depth study of the Creole language spoken in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, a community situated...  Read More >>

Speak: A Short History of Languages

Speak: A Short History of Languages

Author: Tore Janson
ISBN: 9780199263417
Format: Paperback
$52.80

Shows how languages change their meaning, shape, and sounds, and how the history of languages is intimately linked...  Read More >>

A Greek Grammar

A Greek Grammar

Author: William Watson Goodwin
ISBN: 9781592443147
Format: Paperback
$110.88

Contents Letters, Syllables, and Accents Inflection Formation of Words Syntax Versification  Read More >>

Power New Testament-OE: Revealing Jewish Roots

Power New Testament-OE: Revealing Jewish Roots

Author: William J Morford
ISBN: 9780966452327
Format: Undefined
$52.67

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Quantity and Prosodic Asymmetries in Alemannic: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives

Quantity and Prosodic Asymmetries in Alemannic: Synchronic...

Author: Astrid Kraehenmann
ISBN: 9783110176803
Format: Hardback
$388.08

The comprehensive analysis of the segmental and metrical system of the Swiss German dialect of Thurgovian provides...  Read More >>

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