Historical & comparative linguistics books

This volume explores the use of the Swabian dialect in southwestern Germany. This book will be of interest to students...  Read More >>

This book combines in-depth grammatical description with a dialectological and typological study. It presents important...  Read More >>

The theoretical framework for the study of minoritized languages has been constructed from different areas of knowledge,...  Read More >>

The study of language contact in the ""new"" English varieties is frequently influenced by sociolinguistic approaches...  Read More >>

The book was compiled with the help of sources such as Vedas, Upanishads, Epics, Brahmanas, and numerous classical...  Read More >>

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This volume describes both the history and the contemporary forms, functions, and status of English in Southeast...  Read More >>

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This book examines the language and myth of Pindar’s Pythian Twelve under the lens of historical linguistics and...  Read More >>

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English summary: Berthold Delbruck is considered the founding father of comparative and Indo-European syntax. His...  Read More >>

This book investigates language choices in different domains among Syrian Arab Muslim families who came to Malaysia...  Read More >>

Ronald E. Emmerick's Handbook of Khotanese consists of two parts: his Introduction to Khotanese, tried and tested...  Read More >>

This book offers a truly interdisciplinary discussion on the relationship between the vocal and the instrumental...  Read More >>

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

A revised reprint of the classic study of the communal Arabic dialects of Baghdad (Muslim, Christian, and Jewish)....  Read More >>

Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century and when they're gone, it will be forever....  Read More >>

Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century and when they're gone, it will be forever....  Read More >>

English has become central to global knowledge production. But what does the reliance of English mean for the world?...  Read More >>

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The English Civil War was a war of words as well as a military conflict, with supporters of the king and parliament...  Read More >>

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'Speak American? Govorite li Američki?' je vas vodič za savladavanje 101 Američkog idioma. Sa jasnim definicijama,...  Read More >>

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