Historical & comparative linguistics books

This provocative volume investigates the origins of contemporary African American Vernacular English (AAVE), one...  Read More >>

The particular interest of these multilingual compilations of medical receipts is that they date from the fourteenth...  Read More >>

This work contains selected papers from the 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, held in Vancouver,...  Read More >>

This book is an introduction to the statistical analysis of word frequency distributions, intended for linguists,...  Read More >>

Yiddish arrived in America as the mother tongue of millions of Jewish immigrants from eastern Europe. Gradually...  Read More >>

Volumes in the Trends in Linguistics. Documentation series focus on the presentation of linguistic data. The series...  Read More >>

Unlike most etymology textbooks, this one presents the words studied in the context of the ideas in which the words...  Read More >>

Dieses in russischer Sprache abgefaßte ukrainische Lehrbuch ist für Studenten philologischer Fachbereiche konzipiert,...  Read More >>

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The contributions to this volume reflect the state of the art in the renewed discussion on the origin of language....  Read More >>

This volume is not the product of direct field-work but a gathering together, a sifting and an analysis of all the...  Read More >>

It has been received knowledge that Golden-Age Spanish underwent rapid change. Contending that this notion stems...  Read More >>

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The fifteen chapters in the book are the papers from a conference held at the Australian National University 17-29...  Read More >>

The grammar presents a full decription of Pali, the language used in the Theravada Buddhist canon, which is still...  Read More >>

This work is a thorough investigation and comparison of intonational features of two varieties of English: the English...  Read More >>

Dr. Gershen has long been fascinated by the language of medicine, a language of arcane words peculiar to his profession....  Read More >>

Seeing the Text integrates language study with theories and methods of interpretation. The purpose of the book is...  Read More >>

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This collection of papers in honour of Professor Robert Le Page addresses various topics in the field of English...  Read More >>

Sheds new light on the relationship between the Enlightenment and the French Revolution by studying the political...  Read More >>

This reference documents linguistic variations in Pennsylvania German (also known as Pennsylvania Dutch), the dialect...  Read More >>

In How to Kill a Dragon Calvert Watkins follows the continuum of poetic formulae in Indo-European languages, from...  Read More >>

The lexical semantic history of sweet and derivatives from its early stages as evidenced in Old English texts until...  Read More >>