Historical & comparative linguistics books

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Webster's New World American Idioms Handbook

Webster's New World American Idioms Handbook

Author: Gail Brenner
ISBN: 9780764524776
Format: Paperback
$44.85

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Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction

Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction

Author: P. H. Matthews (, Professor of Linguistics, Cambridge University; Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge)
ISBN: 9780192801487
Format: Paperback
$21.95

Covers the major aspects of linguistics. This guide begins at the 'arts' end of the subject and finishes at the...  Read More >>

Linguistic Strategies in Daoist Zhuangzi and Chan Buddhism: The Other Way of Speaking

Linguistic Strategies in Daoist Zhuangzi and Chan Buddhism:...

Author: Youru Wang
ISBN: 9780415297837
Format: Hardback
$305.00

As a systematic attempt to probe the linguistic strategies of Daoist Zhuangzi and Chan Buddhism, this book investigates...  Read More >>

A Study in Greek Epistolography

A Study in Greek Epistolography

Author: Francis Xavier J Exler
ISBN: 9781592442157
Format: Paperback
$44.88

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Native and Natural: Aspects of the Concepts of ‘Right’ and ‘Freedom’ in Irish

Native and Natural: Aspects of the Concepts of ‘Right’...

Author: Peter McQuillan
ISBN: 9780268034771
Format: Paperback
$100.32

Peter McQuillan analyzes a number of key words in the Irish language—duchas, duthaigh, dual, and saoirse—along with...  Read More >>

History of Linguistics 1999: Selected papers from the Eighth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, 14–19 September 1999, Fontenay-St.Cloud

History of Linguistics 1999: Selected papers from the...

Author: Sylvian Auroux (ENS-LSH, Lyon) ,  Joscelyne Arpin
ISBN: 9789027245885
Format: Hardback
$292.39

This volume represents a selection of 25 out of altogether 86 papers given at the Eighth International Conference...  Read More >>

Ramesside Inscriptions, Translations: Merenptah and the Late Nineteenth Dynasty

Ramesside Inscriptions, Translations: Merenptah and...

Author: K. A. Kitchen
ISBN: 9780631184294
Format: Hardback
$871.20

This volume, based on the hieroglyphic texts of the Ramesses Age of Ancient Egypt (c.1300-1100 BC), presents a modern...  Read More >>

Once upon a Word: True Tales of Word Origins

Once upon a Word: True Tales of Word Origins

Author: Rob Kyff
ISBN: 9781930819290
Format: Paperback
$42.11

Relates the surprising and fascinating stories behind hundreds of common words and phrases. This title spins the...  Read More >>

Lexicon Latinitatis Nederlandicae Medii Aevi, Fascicule 59

Lexicon Latinitatis Nederlandicae Medii Aevi, Fascicule...

Author: Olga Weijers ,  Marijke Gumbert-Hepp
ISBN: 9789004129351
Format: Paperback
$256.08

This Dutch dictionary of medieval Latin forms part of the project of the Union Academique Internationale to replace...  Read More >>

A Diachronic Constrastive Lexical Field Analysis of Verbs of Human Locomotion in German and English

A Diachronic Constrastive Lexical Field Analysis of...

Author: Petra Storjohann
ISBN: 9783631507711
Format: Paperback
$166.76

This book explores the semantic properties of verbs expressing human locomotion and investigates their sense relations...  Read More >>

The Edinburgh Companion to Scots

The Edinburgh Companion to Scots

Author: John Corbett (Professor, University of Macau and University of Glasgow) ,  J. Derrick McClure (Reader, University of Aberdeen)
ISBN: 9780748615964
Format: Paperback
$79.99

This is a comprehensive introduction to the study of older and present-day Scots language.  Read More >>

Error and the Academic Self: The Scholarly Imagination, Medieval to Modern

Error and the Academic Self: The Scholarly Imagination,...

Author: Seth Lerer
ISBN: 9780231123730
Format: Paperback
$59.95

Examining figures from Thomas More to Stephen Greenblatt, from George Hickes to Seamus Heaney, from George Eliot...  Read More >>

Error and the Academic Self: The Scholarly Imagination, Medieval to Modern

Error and the Academic Self: The Scholarly Imagination,...

Author: Seth Lerer
ISBN: 9780231123723
Format: Hardback
$182.95

Examining figures from Thomas More to Stephen Greenblatt, from George Hickes to Seamus Heaney, from George Eliot...  Read More >>

Das Hundeshagener Kochum: Ein-Rotwelsch-Dialekt Von Wandermusikanten Aus Dem Eichsfeld. Quellen - Woerterbuch - Analyse

Das Hundeshagener Kochum: Ein-Rotwelsch-Dialekt Von...

Author: Thorsten Weiland
ISBN: 9783506797063
Format: Hardback
$440.88

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Writing and Cultural Influence: Studies in Rhetorical History, Orientalist Discourse, and Post-Colonial Criticism

Writing and Cultural Influence: Studies in Rhetorical...

Author: Lahcen E Ezzaher
ISBN: 9780820462097
Format: Hardback
$250.14

The Near East has played an important part in the construction of the western cultural tradition from the classical...  Read More >>

Reichmann: Neue Historische Grammatiken

Reichmann: Neue Historische Grammatiken

Author: Anja Lobenstein-Reichmann ,  Oskar Reichmann
ISBN: 9783484312432
Format: Hardback
$406.56

Inhalt: Oskar Reichmann, Vorwort. - Vilmos Agel, Prinzipien der Grammatik. - Thorsten Roelcke, Anforderungen des...  Read More >>

Here and There Among the Papyri

Here and There Among the Papyri

Author: George Milligan
ISBN: 9781592441822
Format: Paperback
$52.80

In this book, George Milligan takes us on a journey through Egypt and explores the history of papyri. Through his...  Read More >>

Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb

Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb

Author: William Watson Goodwin ,  K C Hanson
ISBN: 9781592441839
Format: Paperback
$118.80

Contents General View of the Moods The Tenses The Particle 'an Use of the Moods The Infinitive The Participle Verbal...  Read More >>

The Tragic Vision and the Hebrew Tradition

The Tragic Vision and the Hebrew Tradition

Author: W L Humphreys
ISBN: 9781592441778
Format: Paperback
$29.95

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Syntax of the Moods and Tenses in New Testament Greek

Syntax of the Moods and Tenses in New Testament Greek...

Author: Ernest DeWitt Burton ,  K C Hanson
ISBN: 9781592441761
Format: Paperback
$58.08

The following pages deal with the various functions of the various verb-forms of the Greek of the New Testament,...  Read More >>

Postcolonial Linguistics: The Politics of Creole Studies

Postcolonial Linguistics: The Politics of Creole Studies...

Author: Michel Degraff
ISBN: 9780631234616
Format: Hardback
$142.31

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Introduction to the Old Testament in Greek

Introduction to the Old Testament in Greek

Author: D D
ISBN: 9781592441693
Format: Paperback
$147.84

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Historical Sociolinguistics

Historical Sociolinguistics

Author: Terttu Nevalainen ,  Helena Raumolin-Brunberg
ISBN: 9780582319943
Format: Paperback
$147.18

An exploration of the ways linguists can make use of social and demographic history, in order to analyze and interpret...  Read More >>

Generative Approaches to Finnic and Saami Linguistics

Generative Approaches to Finnic and Saami Linguistics...

Author: Diane Nelson (University of Leeds) ,  Satu Manninen
ISBN: 9781575864129
Format: Paperback
$57.95

With unusual structural characteristics, Finnish and Saami offer interesting challenges to linguistic theories formulated...  Read More >>

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