Historical & comparative linguistics books

11399 books were found.

Sprachliche Variation und Vielfalt / Linguistic Variation and Diversity: Ausgewaehlte Beitraege des 53. Linguistischen Kolloquiums in Odense, Daenemark / Selected Papers of the 53rd Linguistics Colloquium in Odense, Denmark

Sprachliche Variation und Vielfalt / Linguistic Variation...

Author: Wilfried Kürschner ,  Klaus Geyer
ISBN: 9783631840122
Format: Hardback
$282.35

Der Sammelband präsentiert die Voraussetzungen, Mechanismen und Ergebnisse sprachlicher Variation und Vielfalt....  Read More >>

Linguistic Interfaces in East-Asian Languages: A Festschrift in Honor of Yoshihisa Kitagawa

Linguistic Interfaces in East-Asian Languages: A Festschrift...

Author: Jen Ting ,  Yu-Yin Hsu
ISBN: 9789811944444
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book contains new research essays of linguistic interface studies in or related to East Asian languages. The...  Read More >>

Language Diversity in Iran: New Texts and Perspectives from Non-Iranian Languages

Language Diversity in Iran: New Texts and Perspectives...

Author: Charles G. Häberl
ISBN: 9783110637694
Format: Hardback
$422.37

The current companion will offer a survey of the Afroasiatic, Dravidian, Indo-Aryan, and Turkic languages in contact...  Read More >>

A new companion to the Romance languages

A new companion to the Romance languages

Author: Martin Glessgen
ISBN: 9783111329246
Format: Hardback
$435.57

This companion offers a balanced overview of the core subjects of Romance linguistics. It provides a basic canon...  Read More >>

Public Attitudes Towards Gender-Inclusive Language: A Multilingual Perspective

Public Attitudes Towards Gender-Inclusive Language:...

Author: Falco Pfalzgraf
ISBN: 9783111201252
Format: Hardback
$348.45

Public attitudes towards the use of gender-inclusive language are being voiced in European languages and beyond....  Read More >>

A Grammar of Pangkhua

A Grammar of Pangkhua

Author: Zahid Akter
ISBN: 9783111387048
Format: Hardback
$348.45

This book offers a description of Pangkhua, an endangered Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Rangamati district,...  Read More >>

The Origins of Chinese Literary Hermeneutics: A Study of the Shijing and the Mao School of Confucian Exegesis

The Origins of Chinese Literary Hermeneutics: A Study...

Author: Martin Svensson Ekström
ISBN: 9781438495415
Format: Paperback
$97.55

Explores how China's oldest poetry collection was interpreted in a Confucian exegetical text-the Mao Commentary-in...  Read More >>

What's in a Name?: Friendship, Identity and History in Modern Multicultural Britain: A New Statesman Book of the Year

What's in a Name?: Friendship, Identity and History...

Author: Sheela Banerjee
ISBN: 9781529367607
Format: Paperback
$24.99

 Read More >>

Cant - A Gentleman's Guide: The Language of Rogues in Georgian London

Cant - A Gentleman's Guide: The Language of Rogues in...

Author: Stephen Hart
ISBN: 9781763524101
Format: Paperback
$50.13

Visiting the Underworld of Georgian London but not sure how to blend in? Can't tell a clapperdogeon from a running...  Read More >>

Identifying the Stones of Classical Hebrew: A Modern Philological Approach

Identifying the Stones of Classical Hebrew: A Modern...

Author: Ephraim S. Ayil
ISBN: 9789004677999
Format: Hardback
$213.84

The identities of the stones mentioned in the Hebrew Bible have remained a problem for millennia. Instead of relying...  Read More >>

A Phonological History of Chinese

A Phonological History of Chinese

Author: Zhongwei Shen (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
ISBN: 9781316501658
Format: Paperback
$64.66

A comprehensive account of the phonological history of Chinese, exploring the development of its standard phonological...  Read More >>

New Perspectives on Languages in Contact

New Perspectives on Languages in Contact

Author: Félix Rodríguez González
ISBN: 9783631915240
Format: Hardback
$147.49

This publication examines the complex phenomenon of language contact in its various facets, both for its subject...  Read More >>

Going Tactile: Life at the Limits of Language

Going Tactile: Life at the Limits of Language

Author: Terra Edwards (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago)
ISBN: 9780197778029
Format: Hardback
$181.95

In the 2010s, leaders of the DeafBlind community in Seattle called into question the communitys dependence on sighted...  Read More >>

Korean Dialectology: A Review and Prospectus

Korean Dialectology: A Review and Prospectus

Author: Simon Barnes-Sadler
ISBN: 9789004709867
Format: Paperback
$168.96

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the history, contemporary state, and future direction of Korean dialectological...  Read More >>

Sanskrit Roots to Verbs II Lang Imperfect Past Tense

Sanskrit Roots to Verbs II Lang Imperfect Past Tense...

Author: Ashwini Kumar Aggarwal
ISBN: 9789348012531
Format: Paperback
$63.36

लङ् Prakriya for 1c - 9c Initial Consonant Roots: अट् Augment + Root + Gana Vikarana + Ting Affix 3x3 array लङ्...  Read More >>

A Survey of Chinese Literature

A Survey of Chinese Literature

Author: Zhu Zhirong ,  Xurong Kong
ISBN: 9789819734214
Format: Hardback
$284.60

Drawing from the traditional Chinese culture and incorporating the creative expression of Chinese literati, the...  Read More >>

BETWEEN SOUKS AND MALLS

BETWEEN SOUKS AND MALLS

Author: Dr. Siham Alhaider ,  Europe Books
ISBN: 9791220152471
Format: Paperback
$63.33

 Read More >>

Variants and Variance in Classical Textual Cultures: Errors, Innovations, Proliferation, Reception?

Variants and Variance in Classical Textual Cultures:...

Author: Glenn W. Most
ISBN: 9783111017105
Format: Hardback
$335.25

How textual variations develop in different cultures; what variants say about a culture's understanding of text,...  Read More >>

Hochdeutsch: Eine Framesemantische Analyse Historischer Spracheinstellungen Zum Deutschen Vom 16. Bis 18. Jahrhundert

Hochdeutsch: Eine Framesemantische Analyse Historischer...

Author: Verena Sauer
ISBN: 9783111333700
Format: Hardback
$290.37

This study examines discourses surrounding historical attitudes to language and language standardization from the...  Read More >>

Proto-Australian: Reconstruction of a Common Ancestor Language

Proto-Australian: Reconstruction of a Common Ancestor...

Author: Mark Harvey ,  Robert Mailhammer
ISBN: 9783111421445
Format: Hardback
$319.41

This book is the first full evaluation of the Proto-Australian hypothesis, a longstanding proposal that most Australian...  Read More >>

Epifanii Slavinetskii's Greek-Slavonic-Latin Lexicon Between East and West

Epifanii Slavinetskii's Greek-Slavonic-Latin Lexicon...

Author: Walker Riggs Thompson
ISBN: 9783825395964
Format: Hardback
$195.36

The Greek-Slavonic-Latin Lexicon compiled by the Ruthenian monk Epifanii Slavinetskii (d. 1675, Moscow) is a valuable...  Read More >>

Sub Categories for
Historical & comparative linguistics
Latest Reading Guide

NOV RG 20252

 

Shopping Cart
Your cart is empty
Shopping cart
Mailing List