Historical & comparative linguistics books

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Car & Motorcycle Slang

Car & Motorcycle Slang

Author: Lewis J Poteet ,  Jim Poteet
ISBN: 9780595010806
Format: Paperback
$42.11

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The Alpha Parchments: Urim-Thummim Version

The Alpha Parchments: Urim-Thummim Version

Author: Dallas James
ISBN: 9780595099610
Format: Paperback
$60.59

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Early English Pronunciation: Part III & IV

Early English Pronunciation: Part III & IV

Author: A.J. Ellis
ISBN: 9780859919593
Format: Hardback
$184.80

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The Missing Spanish Creoles: Recovering the Birth of Plantation Contact Languages

The Missing Spanish Creoles: Recovering the Birth of...

Author: John McWhorter
ISBN: 9780520219991
Format: Hardback
$104.95

John McWhorter challenges a paradigm among linguists in this exploration of the origins of plantation creole. Using...  Read More >>

A Sketch of Neo-Assyrian Grammar

A Sketch of Neo-Assyrian Grammar

Author: Jaakko Anttila
ISBN: 9789514590467
Format: Paperback
$109.00

The most recent monographic account of Neo-Assyrian grammar was published in 1912. Since that time a great deal...  Read More >>

Singing the Past: Turkic and Medieval Heroic Poetry

Singing the Past: Turkic and Medieval Heroic Poetry...

Author: Karl Reichl
ISBN: 9780801437366
Format: Hardback
$174.11

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A Plethora of Platitudes: A Collection of Cliches and an Assortment of Adages

A Plethora of Platitudes: A Collection of Cliches and...

Author: Jay J Smith
ISBN: 9780595010202
Format: Paperback
$26.27

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Sprache in der Klasse

Sprache in der Klasse

Author: Raphael Berthele
ISBN: 9783484312128
Format: Hardback
$406.56

In dieser Arbeit wird eine Primarschulklasse in einer zweisprachigen Schweizer Stadt untersucht. Die Schulklasse...  Read More >>

The French Language Today: A Linguistic Introduction

The French Language Today: A Linguistic Introduction...

Author: Adrian Battye ,  Marie-Anne Hintze
ISBN: 9780415198387
Format: Paperback
$101.00

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the French language from the perspective of modern linguistics....  Read More >>

Die Funktionen der lokalen Kasus im Tocharischen

Die Funktionen der lokalen Kasus im Tocharischen

Author: Gerd Carling
ISBN: 9783110168273
Format: Hardback
$240.15

This volume deals with the use of the local cases in Tocharian A and Tocharian B, Indo-European languages of the...  Read More >>

""Spracharbeit"" im 17. Jahrhundert: Studien zu Georg Philipp Harsdörffer, Justus Georg Schottelius und Christian Gueintz

""Spracharbeit"" im 17. Jahrhundert: Studien zu Georg...

Author: Markus Hundt
ISBN: 9783110167986
Format: Hardback
$358.64

This study demonstrates how reflected language practice made an important contribution to the establishment and...  Read More >>

The Big Con

The Big Con

Author: David Maurer
ISBN: 9780099409991
Format: Paperback
$39.99

'Of all the gifters, the confidence man is the aristocrat, ' wrote David Maurer, a proposition he definitively proved...  Read More >>

A Concise Lexicon to the Biblical Languages

A Concise Lexicon to the Biblical Languages

Author: Jay Patrick Green, Sr ,  Jay Patrick Green, Sr
ISBN: 9781878442857
Format: Hardback
$102.93

In this A Concise Lexicon to the Biblical Languages, for the first time in any book, Bible students now have a lexicon/dictionary...  Read More >>

The Translingual Imagination

The Translingual Imagination

Author: Professor Steven G. Kellman
ISBN: 9780803227453
Format: Hardback
$132.00

It is difficult to write well even in one language. Yet a rich body of translingual literature (by authors who write...  Read More >>

A Grammar of the Bedouin Dialects of the Northern Sinai Littoral: Bridging the Linguistic Gap between the Eastern and Western Arab World

A Grammar of the Bedouin Dialects of the Northern Sinai...

Author: Rudolf Erik de Jong
ISBN: 9789004118683
Format: Leather / fine binding
$939.84

This study offers a thorough analysis of the bedouin dialects of the northern Sinai littoral. Proposing 82 criteria...  Read More >>

A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages II: Volume 2: Indices

A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages...

Author: R. L. Turner ,  Dorothy Rivers Turner
ISBN: 9780197135532
Format: Hardback
$514.80

This work, compiled by Lady Turner, contains indexes, arranged language by language of the 15,000 Sanskrit head-words...  Read More >>

Generative Theory and Corpus Studies: A Dialogue from 10 ICEHL

Generative Theory and Corpus Studies: A Dialogue from...

Author: Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero ,  David Denison
ISBN: 9783110166873
Format: Hardback
$409.20

This volume focuses on the present state of English historical linguistics as a discipline. In particular, the selection...  Read More >>

A "Reference Grammar of Medieval Italian, According to Dante, with a Dual Edition of the ""Vita Nova"""

A "Reference Grammar of Medieval Italian, According...

Author: Joseph F. Privitera
ISBN: 9780773477278
Format: Hardback
$263.87

"This study reconstructs the grammar of medieval Italian used by Dante in his ""Vita Nova"". It is divided into...  Read More >>

Mind The Gap: Ellipsis and Stylistic Variation in Spoken and Written English

Mind The Gap: Ellipsis and Stylistic Variation in Spoken...

Author: Peter Wilson
ISBN: 9780582356795
Format: Paperback
$120.00

Peter Wilson draws on a variety of examples of spoken and written English, and both literary and non-literary to...  Read More >>

Prosody and Focus in European Portuguese: Phonological Phrasing and Intonation

Prosody and Focus in European Portuguese: Phonological...

Author: Sonia Frota
ISBN: 9780815337768
Format: Hardback
$315.00

This work is an investigation of the relationship between prosodic structure, intonational structure and focus realization...  Read More >>

Dread Talk: The Language of the Rastafari

Dread Talk: The Language of the Rastafari

Author: Velma Pollard
ISBN: 9780773520301
Format: Paperback
$50.03

Describes the language of Rastafari, tracing its development as an expansion of Jamaican Creole while showing how...  Read More >>

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