Historical & comparative linguistics books

This title examines the field of text linguistics in the shape of news media and ways in which news is disseminated...  Read More >>

In der Reihe ""Biblia Coptica"" erscheint erstmals eine systematische Zusammenstellung aller Bibeltexte zum Alten...  Read More >>

Although the history and structure of Standard English have received much attention, regional forms of English speech...  Read More >>

In Praise of Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English ""Spoken Soul brilliantly fills a huge gap... a delightfully...  Read More >>

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Contains answers to the exercises from Harvey's Elementary Grammar and Composition.  Read More >>

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Presents a series of psycholinguistic investigations on consonantal distinctions in Finnish and Japanese. This work...  Read More >>

The papers in this volume were first presented in 1994 at an International Colloquium devoted to language and writing...  Read More >>

English for Journalists is an invaluable guide not only to the basics of English, but to those aspects of writing,...  Read More >>

This major new work explores the development of creoles and other new languages, focusing on the conceptual and...  Read More >>

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

One of the most important factors in language change is synchronic variation due to social diferences, including...  Read More >>

Mallorca läßt zunächst einmal nicht an deutschsprachige Schriftsteller als Exilanten des Dritten Reiches denken....  Read More >>

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Viktor von Adrian – Werburg (1813-1858), dessen 1843 anonym in Hamburg erschienene Programmschrift Österreich und...  Read More >>

This text examines the stability, variation and change of word-order patterns over time, including such subjects...  Read More >>

Here in one volume is a complete guide to cowboy-speak. Like many of today's foreign language guides, this handy...  Read More >>

Die Bibliotheca Teubneriana, gegründet 1849, ist die weltweit älteste, traditionsreichste und umfangreichste Editionsreihe...  Read More >>

The fourteen essays in this volume are representative of the 1998 Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable. New...  Read More >>

Die Ergebnisse der Grammatikalisierungsforschung werden zunehmend auch seitens der germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft...  Read More >>

Das »Wörterbuch zum jiddischen Lehnwortschatz in den deutschen Dialekten« behandelt den jahrhundertelang andauernden...  Read More >>

The Handbook of Language Variation and Change, written by a distinguished international roster of contributors,...  Read More >>

This is an accessible book which makes an important contribution to the study of Pidgin and Creole language varieties,...  Read More >>

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