Historical & comparative linguistics books

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Words from Hell: Unearthing the Darkest Secrets of English Etymology

Words from Hell: Unearthing the Darkest Secrets of English...

Author: Jess Zafarris
ISBN: 9781399808200
Format: Hardback
$34.99

From bodily functions to the dirtiest insults onto war and weaponry to illicit substances, this book goes where...  Read More >>

Definiteness in Balkan Romance

Definiteness in Balkan Romance

Author: Daniela Isac (Associate Professor of Linguistics, Associate Professor of Linguistics, Concordia University)
ISBN: 9780198865704
Format: Hardback
$212.00

This book explores the micro-variation in the realization of definiteness across languages belonging to the Balkan...  Read More >>

Diacron�a de Las Per�frasis Fasales: Origen, Evoluci�n Y Vigencia

Diacron�a de Las Per�frasis Fasales: Origen, Evoluci�n...

Author: Mar Garachana Camarero ,  Esther Artigas �lvarez
ISBN: 9783111340869
Format: Hardback
$290.37

The book provides an overview of the evolution of phasal periphrases from Latin to Spanish, from the perspective...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Pre-Roman Italy (1000--49 BCE)

The Oxford Handbook of Pre-Roman Italy (1000--49 BCE)...

Author: Marco Maiuro (Professor of Roman History, Professor of Roman History, Sapienza, University of Rome) ,  Jane Botsford Johnson (Professional Editor and Translator, Professional Editor and Translator)
ISBN: 9780199987894
Format: Hardback
$333.00

The Oxford Handbook of Pre-Roman Italy gives a comprehensive account of the peoples who lived on the Italian peninsula...  Read More >>

Language and Dialect Death: Theorising Sound Change in Obsolescent Gascon

Language and Dialect Death: Theorising Sound Change...

Author: Damien Mooney
ISBN: 9783031511004
Format: Hardback
$284.60

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Interfaces and Features in Second Language Acquisition: A Study on the Acquisition of Chinese Negation by English Speakers and Korean Speakers

Interfaces and Features in Second Language Acquisition:...

Author: Jia Wang
ISBN: 9789811986314
Format: Paperback
$284.60

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Romanian Folklore and its Archaic Heritage: A cultural and Linguistic Comparative Study

Romanian Folklore and its Archaic Heritage: A cultural...

Author: Ana R. Chelariu
ISBN: 9783031040535
Format: Paperback
$284.60

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Language, Society and the State in a Changing World

Language, Society and the State in a Changing World...

Author: Stanley D. Brunn ,  Roland Kehrein
ISBN: 9783031181481
Format: Paperback
$284.60

Through including authors from nine different countries, who are writing about issuesin twelve countries and their...  Read More >>

The Colloquia of the Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana: Volume 1, Colloquia Monacensia-Einsidlensia, Leidense-Stephani, and Stephani

The Colloquia of the Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana:...

Author: Eleanor Dickey (University of Exeter)
ISBN: 9781009491013
Format: Paperback
$103.47

Colloquia are manuals designed to help ancient Greeks and Romans get around in each other's languages. In describing...  Read More >>

Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues

Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother...

Author: Ross Perlin
ISBN: 9781804710715
Format: Paperback
$27.99

A captivating portrait of contemporary New York City, the most linguistically diverse place ever to have existed...  Read More >>

English and Korean in Contrast: A Linguistic Introduction

English and Korean in Contrast: A Linguistic Introduction...

Author: Jong-Bok Kim
ISBN: 9781394157372
Format: Paperback
$74.95

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Language and Legal Judgments: Evaluation and Argument in Judicial Discourse

Language and Legal Judgments: Evaluation and Argument...

Author: Stanisław Goźdź-Roszkowski
ISBN: 9781032366906
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Integrating research methods from Linguistics with contemporary Legal Argumentation Theory, this book highlights...  Read More >>

Tempus: The World of Discussion and the World of Narration

Tempus: The World of Discussion and the World of Narration...

Author: Herald Weinrich ,  Jane K. Brown
ISBN: 9781531503338
Format: Hardback
$257.99

Tempus studies tense uses, ancient and modern, in great literature and everyday life and in all the major languages...  Read More >>

Avestan Manual. a Handbook for Teaching and Self-Learning

Avestan Manual. a Handbook for Teaching and Self-Learning...

Author: Alberto Cantera ,  Celine Redard
ISBN: 9783447120920
Format: Paperback
$258.72

Avestan is the sacred language of the Zoroastrians in which they perform most of their rituals. It is known only...  Read More >>

Words from the Heart: An Emotional Dictionary

Words from the Heart: An Emotional Dictionary

Author: Susie Dent
ISBN: 9781529379686
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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Time and Language: New Sinology and Chinese History

Time and Language: New Sinology and Chinese History...

Author: Ori Sela ,  Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
ISBN: 9780824895099
Format: Paperback
$73.92

Presenting a host of in-depth case studies, Time and Language: New Sinology and Chinese History argues for and demonstrates...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Anthology of British Medieval Latin: Volume 2, 1066–1500

The Cambridge Anthology of British Medieval Latin: Volume...

Author: Carolinne White (University of Oxford) ,  Catherine Conybeare (Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9781107186576
Format: Hardback
$258.75

This anthology presents in two volumes a series of Latin texts (with English translation) produced in Britain during...  Read More >>

Methods in Historical Corpus Pragmatics: Epistemic Stance in Early Modern English

Methods in Historical Corpus Pragmatics: Epistemic Stance...

Author: Daniela Landert (Universität Heidelberg)
ISBN: 9781009237413
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Drawing on an extensive corpus-based study, this book explores theoretical and empirical discussions of stance research...  Read More >>

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