Historical & comparative linguistics books

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Die ḫattisch-hethitischen Bilinguen, II & III. Textbearbeitungen 2. Das Bauritual 412/b+ (Kbo XXXVII 1). 3. Der Mondmythus KUB XXVIII 3-5

Die ḫattisch-hethitischen Bilinguen, II & III. Textbearbeitungen...
Author: Schuster ISBN: 9789004116375 Format: Leather / fine binding	$549.12
The complement volume to Part I. It includes many important corrections of established readings and opinons. The... Read More >>

The Familiar Letter in Early Modern English: A pragmatic approach

The Familiar Letter in Early Modern English: A pragmatic...
Author: Susan Fitzmaurice (Northern Arizona University) ISBN: 9789027251152 Format: Hardback	$238.05
The heart of the enterprise in this text is to discover how and why readers and writers negotiate the meanings they... Read More >>

Contact Linguistics: Bilingual Encounters and Grammatical Outcomes

Contact Linguistics: Bilingual Encounters and Grammatical...
Author: Carol Myers-Scotton (, Distinguished Professor of Linguistics, University of South Carolina) ISBN: 9780198299530 Format: Paperback	$119.95
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English Pronunciation in the Eighteenth Century

English Pronunciation in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Joan Beal ISBN: 9780199256679 Format: Paperback	$75.00
An exploration of the history of English pronunciation, drawing on the eighteenth-century fashion for pronouncing... Read More >>

The Turkish Language Reform: A Catastrophic Success

The Turkish Language Reform: A Catastrophic Success...
Author: Geoffrey Lewis (Emeritus Professor of Turkish, Emeritus Professor of Turkish, University of Oxford) ISBN: 9780199256693 Format: Paperback	$51.95
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Oxford Guide to World English

Oxford Guide to World English
Author: Tom McArthur ISBN: 9780198662488 Format: Hardback	$75.00
This is a survey of English both as a pre-eminent world language and as an increasingly divergent language. It... Read More >>

Polari - The Lost Language of Gay Men

Polari - The Lost Language of Gay Men
Author: Paul Baker ISBN: 9780415261807 Format: Hardback	$284.00
Polari is a secret form of language mainly used by homosexual men, in London and other cities during the 20th century.... Read More >>

Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect

Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect
Author: Lorenzo D. Turner ISBN: 9781570034527 Format: Paperback	$50.60
This text presents a reference point for today's discussions about ever-present language varieties, Ebonics, and... Read More >>

Sounds and Systems: Studies in Structure and Change. A Festschrift for Theo Vennemann

Sounds and Systems: Studies in Structure and Change....
Author: David Restle , Dietmar Zaefferer ISBN: 9783110175691 Format: Hardback	$377.52
The integration of traditional and modern linguistics as well as diachrony and synchrony is the hallmark of an influential... Read More >>

Studies in the History of the English Language: A Millennial Perspective

Studies in the History of the English Language: A Millennial...
Author: Donka Minkova , Robert Stockwell ISBN: 9783110173680 Format: Hardback	$274.47
The 19 papers in this volume are a selection from a UCLA conference intended to take stock of the state of the field... Read More >>

The Historical Evolution of Earlier African American English: An Empirical Comparison of Early Sources

The Historical Evolution of Earlier African American...
Author: Alexander Kautzsch ISBN: 9783110173017 Format: Hardback	$188.67
Based on a 500,000 word corpus of early sources collected from ex-slave narratives, ex-slave recordings, and interviews... Read More >>

Runes and Germanic Linguistics

Runes and Germanic Linguistics
Author: Elmer H. Antonsen ISBN: 9783110174625 Format: Hardback	$422.40
The older runic inscriptions (ca. The extraordinary importance of these inscriptions for a proper understanding... Read More >>

Spielmannsidiom, Dialektmischung Und Kunstsprache in Der Mittelenglischen Volkstumlichen Epik

Spielmannsidiom, Dialektmischung Und Kunstsprache in...
Author: Karl Reichl ISBN: 9783506714787 Format: Paperback	$105.60
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Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's Languages

Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's Languages...
Author: Daniel Nettle , Suzanne Romaine (, University of Oxford) ISBN: 9780195152463 Format: Paperback	$31.95
Half of all known languages have disappeared in the last five hundred years and 90 percent of all languages are... Read More >>

The Foundations of Latin

The Foundations of Latin
Author: Philip Baldi ISBN: 9783110172089 Format: Hardback	$129.36
From its origins in the Proto-Indo-European ancestral language until the end of the second century CE, this study... Read More >>

Biblical Bible Translating

Biblical Bible Translating
Author: Charles V Turner ISBN: 9781589603028 Format: Paperback	$39.57
Biblical Bible Translating is for people who are concerned about faithful Bible translation. There is a great deal... Read More >>

Five Texts in Etruscan: Early Gothic Language of Tyrrhenians and Ancient Jutes

Five Texts in Etruscan: Early Gothic Language of Tyrrhenians...
Author: Ilse Nesbitt Jones , Ilse Nesbitt Jones ISBN: 9780820440255 Format: Hardback	$208.43
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Theoretical Approaches to Universals

Theoretical Approaches to Universals
Author: Artemis Alexiadou (University of Potsdam) ISBN: 9781588111913 Format: Hardback	$475.20
This volume has its origin in the GLOW Conference on Universals organized by the Research Center for General Linguistics... Read More >>

Ethnosyntax: Explorations in Grammar and Culture

Ethnosyntax: Explorations in Grammar and Culture
Author: N. J. Enfield (, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen) ISBN: 9780199249060 Format: Hardback	$369.00
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Philologie, Typologie Und Sprachstruktur Philology, Typology and Language Structure: Festschrift Fuer Winfried Boeder Zum 65. Geburtstag Festschrift for Winfried Boeder on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday

Philologie, Typologie Und Sprachstruktur Philology,...
Author: Wolfram Bublitz , Manfred von Roncador ISBN: 9783631382615 Format: Hardback	$203.64
Diese Festschrift wurde dem Sprachwissenschaftler Winfried Boeder (Universitaet Oldenburg) zu seinem 65. Geburtstag... Read More >>

No. 6Nahuatl As Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts

No. 6Nahuatl As Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl,...
Author: James Lockhart ISBN: 9780804744584 Format: Paperback	$54.95
This book, based on many years of teaching the natural language, is a set of lessons that can be understood by students... Read More >>

Language Universals and Variation

Language Universals and Variation
Author: Mengistu Amberber , Peter Collins (University of New South Wales, Australia) ISBN: 9780275976835 Format: Paperback	$92.40
Issues addressed in this contributed volume include lexical semantics, morphosyntax, and phonology, based on the... Read More >>

Altenglische Terminologie für Schiffe und Schiffsteile: Archäologie und Sprachgeschichte 500 - 1100

Altenglische Terminologie für Schiffe und Schiffsteile:...
Author: Katrin Thier ISBN: 9781841714165 Format: Paperback	$170.78
Thier's dissertation examines Old English terminology for ships and parts of ships in order to throw light on seafaring... Read More >>

The Oxford Dictionary of Word Histories

The Oxford Dictionary of Word Histories
Author: Glynnis Chantrell ISBN: 9780198631217 Format: Hardback	$82.95
A description of over 11,000 words and their origins; dates highlight the first known use of words and of many idiomatic... Read More >>

No. 6Nahuatl As Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts

No. 6Nahuatl As Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl,...
Author: James Lockhart ISBN: 9780804742825 Format: Hardback	$104.95
This book, based on many years of teaching the natural language, is a set of lessons that can be understood by students... Read More >>

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