Historical & comparative linguistics books

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Pragmatics in the History of English

Pragmatics in the History of English
Author: Laurel J. Brinton (University of British Columbia, Vancouver) ISBN: 9781009322874 Format: Paperback	$69.84
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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
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The Cambridge Handbook of Historical Orthography

The Cambridge Handbook of Historical Orthography
Author: Marco Condorelli (University of Central Lancashire, Preston) , Hanna Rutkowska (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan) ISBN: 9781108487313 Format: Hardback	$514.80
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Pragmatics in the History of English

Pragmatics in the History of English
Author: Laurel J. Brinton (University of British Columbia, Vancouver) ISBN: 9781009322928 Format: Hardback	$277.20
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Nine Nasty Words

Nine Nasty Words
Author: John McWhorter ISBN: 9780593421383 Format: Paperback	$32.99
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Shépa: The Tibetan Oral Tradition in Choné

Shépa: The Tibetan Oral Tradition in Choné
Author: Bendi Tso , Marnyi Gyatso ISBN: 9781800648005 Format: Paperback	$116.03
Shépa: 'explanation' or 'elucidation' in Tibetan. A form of oral poetry sung antiphonally in a question-and-answer... Read More >>

Shépa: The Tibetan Oral Tradition in Choné

Shépa: The Tibetan Oral Tradition in Choné
Author: Bendi Tso , Marnyi Gyatso ISBN: 9781800648012 Format: Hardback	$160.91
Shépa: 'explanation' or 'elucidation' in Tibetan. A form of oral poetry sung antiphonally in a question-and-answer... Read More >>

Silbentyp und Wortschatz im diachronen Sprachkontakt: Zentrum und Peripherie in phonotaktischen Systemen und im Lexikon romanischer Sprachen

Silbentyp und Wortschatz im diachronen Sprachkontakt:...
Author: Matthias Heinz ISBN: 9783110585445 Format: Hardback	$171.51
Phonotactics and loanword vocabulary in Romance languages tend toward syllable simplification, but complex structures... Read More >>

Sprache und Religion: Tendenzen und Perspektiven

Sprache und Religion: Tendenzen und Perspektiven
Author: Maria Fritzsche , Kerstin Roth ISBN: 9783110602272 Format: Hardback	$171.51
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Literary Onomastics

Literary Onomastics
Author: Dorothy Dodge Robbins , Susan J. Behrens ISBN: 9781666905922 Format: Hardback	$237.60
Literary Onomastics analyzes the namecraft of authors ranging from William Shakespeare to George R. R. Martin, studying... Read More >>

As Sacred to Us: Simon Pokagon’s Birch Bark Stories in Their Contexts

As Sacred to Us: Simon Pokagon’s Birch Bark Stories...
Author: Blaire Morseau ISBN: 9781611864625 Format: Paperback	$65.87
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Analyzing the Logic of Sun Tzu in “The Art of War”, Using Mind Maps

Analyzing the Logic of Sun Tzu in “The Art of War”,...
Author: Peter van Emde Boas , Ghica van Emde Boas ISBN: 9789811962523 Format: Paperback	$232.85
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Writing Early China

Writing Early China
Author: Edward L. Shaughnessy ISBN: 9781438495224 Format: Hardback	$261.36
Considers what unearthed documents reveal about the creation and transmission of knowledge in ancient China. Read More >>

A Study of Cultural Interaction and Linguistic Contact: Approaching Chinese Linguistics from the Periphery

A Study of Cultural Interaction and Linguistic Contact:...
Author: Keiichi Uchida , Alan Thwaits ISBN: 9783847106999 Format: Hardback	$168.96
The author, approaching Chinese linguistics from the periphery, examines such topics as the spread of Western learning... Read More >>

Liverpool: A Memoir of Words

Liverpool: A Memoir of Words
Author: Tony Crowley (The School of English, University of Leeds (United Kingdom)) ISBN: 9781837644384 Format: Hardback	$51.75
Liverpool: A Memoir of Words is a work of creative non-fiction that combines the study of language in Liverpool... Read More >>

Utah English

Utah English
Author: David Ellingson Eddington ISBN: 9781647691066 Format: Hardback	$185.00
Exploring not only what Utah English is but also what it isn’t. Read More >>

The Gift of Tongues: Ecstatic Utterance or Foreign Languages? the Linguistic Evidence

The Gift of Tongues: Ecstatic Utterance or Foreign Languages?...
Author: Bruce A. Edminster ISBN: 9781680538465 Format: Hardback	$231.00
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Arabic and the Case against Linearity in Historical Linguistics

Arabic and the Case against Linearity in Historical...
Author: Jonathan Owens (Professor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, Bayreuth University) ISBN: 9780192867513 Format: Hardback	$236.00
This book explores nearly 2000 years of the history of the Arabic language, from pre-Islamic Arabic via the Classical... Read More >>

A Corpus-based Contrastive Study of the Appraisal Systems in English and Chinese Scientific Research Articles

A Corpus-based Contrastive Study of the Appraisal Systems...
Author: Xu Yuchen , Yan Xuan ISBN: 9781032164915 Format: Paperback	$83.99
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The Case System of Eastern Indo-Aryan Languages: A Typological Overview

The Case System of Eastern Indo-Aryan Languages: A Typological...
Author: Bornini Lahiri (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India) ISBN: 9780367756338 Format: Paperback	$88.99
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Economy' in European History: Words, Contexts and Change over Time

Economy' in European History: Words, Contexts and Change...
Author: Luigi Alonzi (University of Palermo, Italy) ISBN: 9781350276765 Format: Paperback	$59.99
Prompted by the ‘linguistic turn’ of the late 20th century, intellectual and conceptual historians continue to devote... Read More >>

For F*ck's Sake: Why Swearing Is Shocking, Rude, and Fun

For F*ck's Sake: Why Swearing Is Shocking, Rude, and...
Author: Rebecca Roache , Polly Lee ISBN: 9798212951654 Format: Audio	$124.05
"Why do we love to swear so much? Why do we get so offended when others do it? In this lively and amusing exploration... Read More >>

For F*ck's Sake: Why Swearing Is Shocking, Rude, and Fun

For F*ck's Sake: Why Swearing Is Shocking, Rude, and...
Author: Rebecca Roache , Polly Lee ISBN: 9798212951661 Format: Audio	$110.85
"Why do we love to swear so much? Why do we get so offended when others do it? In this lively and amusing exploration... Read More >>

Life and Language Beyond Earth

Life and Language Beyond Earth
Author: Raymond Hickey (University of Limerick) ISBN: 9781009226417 Format: Hardback	$64.69
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A Myriad of Tongues: How Languages Reveal Differences in How We Think

A Myriad of Tongues: How Languages Reveal Differences...
Author: Caleb Everett ISBN: 9780674976580 Format: Hardback	$49.95
Exploring breakthroughs in language and cognition research, Caleb Everett finds that fundamentals of human perception... Read More >>

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