Historical & comparative linguistics books

Using acoustic studies of Bernese, Hungarian, Levantine Arabic and Madurese, the author argues that differences...  Read More >>

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Presents research on the way in which numerous place-names are strongly rooted in the physical features of the land....  Read More >>

Metaphor familiarizes things strange with things familiar to enrich old things with things newly made familiar....  Read More >>

An analysis of the beginnings and of the early and subsequent development of thinking about language and languages...  Read More >>

The central theme of this collection is the epistemological status of constraints and preferences in linguistics....  Read More >>

This volume brings together what the editors believe to be a good representation of scholarly research devoted to...  Read More >>

From the language in the Bible to the components of a British soccer chant, this compendium explores the uses and...  Read More >>

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Is it possible to enter the minds of medieval people? Anglo-Saxon Audiences explores this question through the use...  Read More >>

Charts the history of communication from the time before human language was conceived through to the media explosion...  Read More >>

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1901 Edition.  Read More >>

This text explores the use and abuse of figurative speech during Taiwanese political electioneering. The book demonstrates...  Read More >>

This description of the structure of Old Church Slavonic is intended to present fully the important data about the...  Read More >>

This title seeks to open a new chapter in Egyptian and Afro-Asiatic comparative lingustics. The extensive treatment...  Read More >>

This publication provides important new information detailing the orthography, phonology, morphology, and lexicon...  Read More >>

This is a compilation of slang, nicknames, military jargon and terminology, idioms, colloquialisms, and other words...  Read More >>

In this work we have by far the best introduction to medieval English now available.-from the Foreword  Read More >>

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This book addresses universal tendencies of human vowel systems from the point of view of self-organization. It...  Read More >>

In relating other Romance languages to BP, the book shows that BP word order has a number of interesting restrictions...  Read More >>

The auxiliary do (tun) is one of the most-discussed constructions in West Germanic. This book shows, the construction...  Read More >>

This work presents a sketch grammar of Nhanda, a Pama-Nyungan language of the central coast of Western Australia...  Read More >>