Historical & comparative linguistics books

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Convergenze Plurilingui: Incroci E Convivenze Linguistiche Tra Medioevo E Prima Et� Moderna

Convergenze Plurilingui: Incroci E Convivenze Linguistiche...

Author: Alice Martignoni ,  Franco Pierno
ISBN: 9783111318042
Format: Hardback
$290.37

The concepts of plurilinguism and multilingualism are normally used in studies dealing with current linguistic realities....  Read More >>

Emergence of Korean English: How Korea's Dynamic English is Born

Emergence of Korean English: How Korea's Dynamic English...

Author: Jieun Kiaer ,  Hyejeong Ahn (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
ISBN: 9781032257709
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Emergence of Korean English explores the dynamic nature of emerging Korean English and its impact on Korean society,...  Read More >>

Las variedades del mundo hispano: Introducción a la dialectología española

Las variedades del mundo hispano: Introducción a la...

Author: Benjamin Schmeiser (Illinois State University, USA)
ISBN: 9781138209121
Format: Paperback
$73.99

Las variedades del mundo hispano takes a refreshing approach to Spanish dialectology, guiding students through the...  Read More >>

Las variedades del mundo hispano: Introducción a la dialectología española

Las variedades del mundo hispano: Introducción a la...

Author: Benjamin Schmeiser (Illinois State University, USA)
ISBN: 9781138209138
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Las variedades del mundo hispano takes a refreshing approach to Spanish dialectology, guiding students through the...  Read More >>

Cantonese: Since the Nineteenth Century

Cantonese: Since the Nineteenth Century

Author: Hung-nin Samual Cheung
ISBN: 9789882372535
Format: Hardback
$145.20

The evolution of modern Cantonese can be traced, showing how differences in sounds, words, and grammar distinguish...  Read More >>

Translation as Creative–Critical Practice

Translation as Creative–Critical Practice

Author: Delphine Grass (Lancaster University)
ISBN: 9781009074834
Format: Paperback
$43.99

This Element explores examples of translation as both a norm-breaking and world-making activity in the works of...  Read More >>

Recognizing Indigenous Languages: Double Binds of State Policy and Teaching Kichwa in Ecuador

Recognizing Indigenous Languages: Double Binds of State...

Author: Nicholas Limerick (, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University)
ISBN: 9780197559185
Format: Paperback
$66.95

What follows when state institutions name historically oppressed languages as official? What happens when bilingual...  Read More >>

A Study of Excavated Documents in China

A Study of Excavated Documents in China

Author: Wang Guiyuan
ISBN: 9781032612270
Format: Hardback
$273.00

As the second volume of a two-volume set on Chinese ancient characters and unearthed literature, this book brings...  Read More >>

Translation as Creative–Critical Practice

Translation as Creative–Critical Practice

Author: Delphine Grass (Lancaster University)
ISBN: 9781009462556
Format: Hardback
$129.35

This Element explores examples of translation as both a norm-breaking and world-making activity in the works of...  Read More >>

Recognizing Indigenous Languages: Double Binds of State Policy and Teaching Kichwa in Ecuador

Recognizing Indigenous Languages: Double Binds of State...

Author: Nicholas Limerick (, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University)
ISBN: 9780197559178
Format: Hardback
$187.95

What follows when state institutions name historically oppressed languages as official? What happens when bilingual...  Read More >>

Philologische Untersuchungen Zu Den Hurro-Hethitischen Festritualen: Ein Beitrag Zum Hethitisch-Hurritischen Sprach- Und Kulturkontakt

Philologische Untersuchungen Zu Den Hurro-Hethitischen...

Author: Fabio Bastici
ISBN: 9783825395377
Format: Paperback
$200.64

Die reiche Kultur der Hethiter lasst Einflusse aus verschiedenen kulturellen Milieus erkennen. Kontakte mit Traditionen...  Read More >>

Penser la traduction � travers ses pratiques: Contextes, fonctions et r�ceptions de la traduction

Penser la traduction � travers ses pratiques: Contextes,...

Author: Doroth�e Cailleux ,  Chiara Denti
ISBN: 9782875745309
Format: Paperback
$106.09

Cet ouvrage, qui s'inscrit dans le sillage des recherches en sociologie de la traduction, r�unit des �tudes de cas...  Read More >>

Swahili: The Rise of a National Language

Swahili: The Rise of a National Language

Author: Wilfred Whiteley
ISBN: 9781032618838
Format: Hardback
$147.00

Originally published in 1969, this book examines the factors which at different historical periods led people to...  Read More >>

The Manchu Language at Court and in the Bureaucracy under the Qianlong Emperor

The Manchu Language at Court and in the Bureaucracy...

Author: Mårten Söderblom Saarela
ISBN: 9789004685291
Format: Hardback
$319.44

This study of the roles played by the Manchu language in the Qing empire at the height of its power presents a revisionist...  Read More >>

Mary Ann Shadd Cary: Essential Writings of a Nineteenth-Century Black Radical Feminist

Mary Ann Shadd Cary: Essential Writings of a Nineteenth-Century...

Author: Nneka D. Dennie (Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History, Washington and Lee University)
ISBN: 9780197609460
Format: Hardback
$228.00

This volume compiles writings by and about Mary Ann Shadd Cary, a nineteenth-century Black radical feminist, an...  Read More >>

Navigating Language in the Early Islamic World: Multilingualism and Language Change in the First Centuries of Islam

Navigating Language in the Early Islamic World: Multilingualism...

Author: Antoine Borrut ,  Manuela Ceballos
ISBN: 9782503603018
Format: Hardback
$414.48

Traditional accounts of Arabicization have often favoured linear narratives of language change instead of delving...  Read More >>

Mary Ann Shadd Cary: Essential Writings of a Nineteenth-Century Black Radical Feminist

Mary Ann Shadd Cary: Essential Writings of a Nineteenth-Century...

Author: Nneka D. Dennie (Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History, Washington and Lee University)
ISBN: 9780197609477
Format: Paperback
$56.95

This volume compiles writings by and about Mary Ann Shadd Cary, a nineteenth-century Black radical feminist, an...  Read More >>

Navigating Friendships in Interaction: Discursive and Ethnographic Perspectives

Navigating Friendships in Interaction: Discursive and...

Author: Cade Bushnell (University of Tsukuba, Japan) ,  Stephen J. Moody (Brigham Young University, USA)
ISBN: 9781032463773
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Bushnell and Moody present a rich investigation into the navigation of friendships, adopting discursive and ethnographic...  Read More >>

The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall: Language, Memory, and Indigenous California

The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall: Language, Memory, and...

Author: Andrew Garrett
ISBN: 9780262547093
Format: Paperback
$110.00

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International Journal of Diachronic Linguistics and Linguistic Reconstruction

International Journal of Diachronic Linguistics and...

Author: Eugen Hill ,  Martin Joachim Kummel
ISBN: 9783752007756
Format: Paperback
$158.40

English summary: The journal, first published in 2004, covers the field of historical comparative linguistics and...  Read More >>

Tschuwaschisches Dialektworterbuch

Tschuwaschisches Dialektworterbuch

Author: August Ahlqvist
ISBN: 9783447121279
Format: Paperback
$271.92

Das Worterbuch wurde aus dem Material der Handschrift Tschuwaschiska des finnischen Finnougristen August Ahlqvist...  Read More >>

Polarity-Sensitive Expressions: Comparisons Between Japanese and Other Languages

Polarity-Sensitive Expressions: Comparisons Between...

Author: Hideki Kishimoto ,  Osamu Sawada
ISBN: 9783110754995
Format: Hardback
$345.81

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