Historical & comparative linguistics books

This volume examines change in the English language by considering the transmission of English through dictionaries...  Read More >>

This book examines how written Scots indexed political affiliations in the correspondence of Scottish politicians...  Read More >>

This book analyzes Persian carpets through the holistic and multifaceted perspective of cultural linguistics and...  Read More >>

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The first volume of this two-part work presents a series of comparative studies on the Slavic verb, addressing topics...  Read More >>

The second volume of this two-part work offers language-specific studies on the Slavic verb, covering secondary...  Read More >>

Against the general view of syntactic uniformity within Old Norse, this book reveals early word order divergence...  Read More >>

This etymological dictionary reconstructs Old Cree roots through decades of research on historical and contemporary...  Read More >>

Various kinds of text which document the history of English form the focus of the current volume. Vernacular speech...  Read More >>

Like its prequel, this book examines the 'nature/nurture' debate in language, while also asking how language came...  Read More >>

Esta monografía colectiva profundiza en diferentes estrategias lingüísticas de (des)cortesía verbal documentadas...  Read More >>

Schott is back - and better than ever! From the mind that created the million-copy selling Schott's Original Miscellany...  Read More >>

A dazzling illumination of the astonishing kaleidoscope that is the English language, Useless Etymology explores...  Read More >>

This book looks at the translations which appeared in the Philosophical Transactions and whose source texts had...  Read More >>

Step into a world where language was richer, quirkier, and more delightful than today. In Lost Words, you'll uncover...  Read More >>

Das Frühneuhochdeutsche Wörterbuch ist ein alphabetisch geordnetes Bedeutungswörterbuch der Varietäten des Hochdeutschen...  Read More >>

This book presents a pioneering phonological analysis of an African Portuguese variety, São Tomé and Príncipe Portuguese....  Read More >>

This Element proposes to view World Englishes as components of an overarching Complex Dynamic System of Englishes,...  Read More >>

The dominant view in linguistics nowadays is that impoliteness is purely a matter of situational assessments by...  Read More >>

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A twenty-six-chapter journey through the history and working of the English alphabet by linguistic guru Danny Bate....  Read More >>

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Die Vergangenheit der deutschen Sprache, ihrer fruheren Komplexitat, Vielschichtigkeit und Diversitat lasst sich...  Read More >>

由中国翻译协会指导，新疆政法学院与中国政法大学联合主办，中国译协涉外法治翻译与传播专业委员会（原法律翻译委员会）和新疆政法学院法学院和人文学院承办的2025年""涉外法治与法律翻译研讨会""于5月24日在新疆图木舒克市成功举办。会议以""深耕南疆涉外法治教育......  Read More >>

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