Historical & comparative linguistics books

This book is a fascinating study of the history and derivation of many familiar English words. Amongst other things,...  Read More >>

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This title is a historical, social, cultural and linguistic study of Indonesian culture. It traces the origins and...  Read More >>

This is an enquiry into the use and status of English in medieval England. It is concerned with English relative...  Read More >>

Part of a series designed as a reference for a particular linguistic community and for linguists working on typology...  Read More >>

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Este manual fue disenado con el propo de que sea una herramienta util para el estudiante del hebreo biblico, es...  Read More >>

This volume focuses, via primary linguistic fieldwork, on the underrepresented and neglected area of the Anglophone...  Read More >>

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The intuition that translations are somehow different from texts that are not translations has been around for many...  Read More >>

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Linguistic diversity is one of the most puzzling and challenging features of humankind.  Read More >>

This work describes the history of the Chinese writing system from the late Shang (ca. 1200 B.C.) when Chinese characters...  Read More >>

The most comprehensive, systematic treatment of the etymology of the more than fifty languages classified as Altaic....  Read More >>

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This book presents findings of the first-ever ethnographic fieldwork on the most remote island in the world with...  Read More >>

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A study of the language of Chaucerian manuscripts, printed editions and Chaucer's 15th century followers. Winner...  Read More >>

Dalby projects that 2,500 languages will be lost over the course of this century, and makes the case for the vital...  Read More >>

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