Historical & comparative linguistics books

Dialogue is at the heart of Shakespeare’s plays, and when his characters exchange words, they create social communities....  Read More >>

Now in its second edition, this textbook provides a practical introduction to stylistics, grounded in theories of...  Read More >>

This volume brings together contributors from English historical linguistics and book studies to highlight multimodal...  Read More >>

This open-access book presents standards which were developed by the Project for the Protection of Language Resources...  Read More >>

New research expands the linguistic understanding of dialect contact in specific communities and individuals Dialect...  Read More >>

New research expands the linguistic understanding of dialect contact in specific communities and individuals Dialect...  Read More >>

Based on a range of novel theoretical positions and case studies, this book explores the key ideas of Word Grammar...  Read More >>

التطور الدلالي يأخذك في رحلة عميقة عبر الزمن لاستكشاف تطور المعاني اللغوية وتحولاتها، حيث تسلط المؤلفة الضوء على...  Read More >>

The book is a comprehensive typological study of coordinating conjunctions in Sinitic languages and other languages...  Read More >>

This volume presents the first comprehensive overview in English of the languages of the Central Andes, spoken primarily...  Read More >>

Exploring the motivations, practices and ethnolinguistic identities of new Gaelic speakers.  Read More >>

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Sinitic is a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family, consisting of thousands of local language varieties, many...  Read More >>

This is the first comprehensive handbook of Japanese dialectology. Most publications of Japanese dialect studies...  Read More >>

Written by ten linguists from different Portuguese-speaking countries, this volume describes Portuguese grammar...  Read More >>

This book examines Spanish English bilingual patterns in a small town and rural Northeast Georgia community of Hispanics...  Read More >>

Exploring the potential of poetry and poetic language as a means of conveying perspectives on later life, this book...  Read More >>

This book provides a detailed study of the unusually large array of interrogative and relative grammars mastered...  Read More >>

Este volumen incluye el estudio y la edicion critica de toda el Ars grammatica (CPL 1555) del obispo Julian de Toledo...  Read More >>

How do languages mix? Does it begin in chaos, new migrants and old inhabitants needing a pidgin to communicate?...  Read More >>

As the fifth volume of a multi-volume set on the Chinese language, this book studies the development of monosyllables...  Read More >>

As the sixth volume of a multi-volume set on the Chinese language, this book studies the influence of foreign culture...  Read More >>

As the fourth volume of a multi-volume set on the Chinese language, this book studies the lexical system of Old...  Read More >>

As the final volume of a multi-volume set on the Chinese language, this book studies the Western and Japanese influence...  Read More >>