Historical & comparative linguistics books

This book is a study of the text and language of the earliest Latin versions of the four Gospels. In it the author...  Read More >>

Essentials of Mastering English: A Concise Grammar is both an ideal companion for undergraduate students wishing...  Read More >>

Book jacket: The meaning of a word is not an abstract idea for which the word stands, nor is it the uses to which...  Read More >>

The book series Linguistische Arbeiten (LA) publishes high-quality work in linguistics that addresses current issues...  Read More >>

A collection of key articles and essays by a leading scholar on African American language and politics. Smitherman...  Read More >>

Compares and contrasts Embera-Katio and Northern Embera (Colombia) proper with each other and with other languages...  Read More >>

Serendipities is a careful unraveling of the fabulous and the false, a brilliant exposition of how unanticipated...  Read More >>

This volume of essays examines the claim that a linguistic macrofamily can be identified which includes not only...  Read More >>

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

This first volume to this dictionary aims to provide an analysis of the Afro-Asiatic background of the Egyptian...  Read More >>

An introduction, or re-introduction, to the world of ancient Rome for students and armchair enthusiasts alike. The...  Read More >>

In this volume, Gavin Jones explores the aesthetic politics of this neglected ""cult of the vernacular"" in little-known...  Read More >>

Explains the evolution of Japanese suffixes and provides an aid to scholars reading classical Japanese  Read More >>

Empirical linguistics meet psychology in this text, which argues that in order to understand more fully the words...  Read More >>

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Central Hill Nisenan was spoken in the hills northeast of Sacramento, California, but like many other California...  Read More >>

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semantic and discourse considerations. Umlaut Phenomena in Early New High German Discourse is an investigation of...  Read More >>

A collection of key articles and essays by a leading scholar on African American language and politics. Smitherman...  Read More >>

Fourteen papers representative of the 1996 Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable reflect the current resurgence...  Read More >>

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