Historical & comparative linguistics books

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Glossaries Of Americanisms: Vol II

Glossaries Of Americanisms: Vol II
Author: Daniel R Davis ISBN: 9780415279666 Format: Hardback	$567.00
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Parts Of Speech:Essays English

Parts Of Speech:Essays English
Author: Brander Matthews , Daniel R. Davis ISBN: 9780415279710 Format: Hardback	$609.00
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Read More >>

The Alashia Texts from the 14th and 13th Centuries Bce: A Textual and Linguistic Study

The Alashia Texts from the 14th and 13th Centuries Bce:...
Author: Zipora Cochavi-Rainey ISBN: 9783934628175 Format: Hardback	$134.64
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Die Akkadischen Verbalstamme Mit Ta-Infix

Die Akkadischen Verbalstamme Mit Ta-Infix
Author: Michael P Streck ISBN: 9783934628359 Format: Hardback	$139.92
M.P. Streck's study examines the functions and the history of all hitherto known Akkadian verbs which are attested... Read More >>

Coined By God: Words and Phrases That First Appear in English Translations of the Bible

Coined By God: Words and Phrases That First Appear in...
Author: Stan Malless, Ph.D. (Simpson College) , Jeff McQuain ISBN: 9780393341898 Format: Paperback	$52.67
A word lover's delight: 150 entries, with meanings and sources, first published in English translations of the... Read More >>

Language Contact in Amazonia

Language Contact in Amazonia
Author: Alexandra Aikhenvald (Professor and Research Leader, Cairns Institute, James Cook University) ISBN: 9780199257850 Format: Hardback	$119.95
This book investigates the contact between Arawak and Tucanoan languages spoken in the Vaupes river basin in northwest... Read More >>

American English 1781 - 1921

American English 1781 - 1921
Author: Daniel R. Davis ISBN: 9780415279642 Format: Mixed media product	$893.00
This eight-volume set reprints a wide range of source texts useful to the study of American English. Volume I contains... Read More >>

Convict Words: Language In Early Colonial Australia

Convict Words: Language In Early Colonial Australia...
Author: Laugesen ISBN: 9780195516555 Format: Paperback	$59.95
This book explores the language of the Australian convict era, taking the form of a dictionary with supporting quotations... Read More >>

Isolation and Language Change: Contemporary and Sociohistorical Evidence From Tristan da Cunha English

Isolation and Language Change: Contemporary and Sociohistorical...
Author: D. Schreier ISBN: 9781349509249 Format: Paperback	$232.85
Extremely isolated communities offer 'laboratory conditions' for examining the processes of language change and... Read More >>

The Syntax of Imperatives in English and Germanic: Word Order Variation in the Minimalist Framework

The Syntax of Imperatives in English and Germanic: Word...
Author: L. Rupp ISBN: 9781349432059 Format: Paperback	$232.85
This volume examines several aspects of the syntax of imperative clauses in English and in a variety of other Germanic... Read More >>

The Letter to the Hebrews

The Letter to the Hebrews
Author: ELLINGWORTH ISBN: 9780826701695 Format: Book	$65.97
A verse-by-verse analysis and commentary on the book of Hebrews by recognized biblical translation experts. Special... Read More >>

Language in Cape Town's District Six

Language in Cape Town's District Six
Author: Kay McCormick ISBN: 9780198235545 Format: Hardback	$220.00
This is a study of the vernacular speech of a mixed-race community in Cape Town. The author argues that historical... Read More >>

Dictionary of American Regional English

Dictionary of American Regional English
Author: Joan Houston Hall , Joan Houston Hall ISBN: 9780674008847 Format: Hardback	$237.47
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Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology: Volume 2

Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology: Volume 2
Author: Daniel Long (Tokyo Metropolitan University) , Dennis R. Preston (Michigan State University) ISBN: 9789027221858 Format: Hardback	$377.78
Volume two of Preston's seminal work expands upon the underlying principles of folk linguistics and at the same... Read More >>

Black Linguistics: Language, Society and Politics in Africa and the Americas

Black Linguistics: Language, Society and Politics in...
Author: Arnetha Ball , Sinfree Makoni ISBN: 9780415261388 Format: Paperback	$83.99
This groundbreaking collection re-orders the elitist and colonial elements of language studies by drawing together... Read More >>

The Handbook of Historical Linguistics

The Handbook of Historical Linguistics
Author: Brian Joseph (Ohio State University) , Richard Janda (Ohio State University) ISBN: 9780631195719 Format: Hardback	$392.95
* Provides a comprehensive and current account of the numerous issues, methods, and results that characterize historical... Read More >>

The Evolution of Language out of Pre-language

The Evolution of Language out of Pre-language
Author: T. Givón (University of Oregon) , Bertram F. Malle (University of Oregon) ISBN: 9789027229601 Format: Paperback	$103.50
Topics covered in this volume include: embodied meaning; the internal structure of the syllable; the gradual emergence... Read More >>

Black Linguistics: Language, Society and Politics in Africa and the Americas

Black Linguistics: Language, Society and Politics in...
Author: Arnetha Ball , Sinfree Makoni ISBN: 9780415261371 Format: Hardback	$305.00
This groundbreaking collection re-orders the elitist and colonial elements of language studies by drawing together... Read More >>

The Celtic Inscriptions of Britain: Phonology and Chronology, c. 400-1200

The Celtic Inscriptions of Britain: Phonology and Chronology,...
Author: Patrick Sims-Williams (University of Wales, Aberystwyth) ISBN: 9781405109031 Format: Paperback	$47.95
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The Evolution of Language out of Pre-language

The Evolution of Language out of Pre-language
Author: T. Givón (University of Oregon) , Bertram F. Malle (University of Oregon) ISBN: 9789027229595 Format: Hardback	$292.39
Topics covered in this volume include: embodied meaning; the internal structure of the syllable; the gradual emergence... Read More >>

Latin: or, the Empire of a Sign

Latin: or, the Empire of a Sign
Author: Françoise Waquet , John Howe ISBN: 9781859844021 Format: Paperback	$65.87
A history of Latin between the 16th and 20th centuries. Read More >>

The Sino-Tibetan Languages

The Sino-Tibetan Languages
Author: Randy J. LaPolla , Graham Thurgood ISBN: 9780700711291 Format: Hardback	$897.60
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Language and German Disunity: A Sociolinguistic History of East and West in Germany, 1945-2000

Language and German Disunity: A Sociolinguistic History...
Author: Patrick Stevenson (, University of Southampton) ISBN: 9780198299707 Format: Paperback	$139.95
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Generative Approaches to the Acquisition of English by Native Speakers of Japanese

Generative Approaches to the Acquisition of English...
Author: Shigenori Wakabayashi ISBN: 9783110176599 Format: Hardback	$422.40
This book is a collection of eight articles by leading scholars investigating of the acquisition of English by native... Read More >>

The Syntax of Ditransitives: Evidence from Clitics

The Syntax of Ditransitives: Evidence from Clitics
Author: Elena Anagnostopoulou ISBN: 9783110170283 Format: Hardback	$388.08
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