Historical & comparative linguistics books

A detailed and comprehensive documentation of the linguistic presence of Portuguese loanwords in African languages....  Read More >>

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This book provides a thorough yet approachable history of the Scots language, a close relative of Standard English....  Read More >>

This book traces the origin and evolvement of two Chinese characters “wenxue”(literature) by using the methods of...  Read More >>

This book provides a thorough yet approachable history of the Scots language, a close relative of Standard English....  Read More >>

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This volume brings together several contributions from linguistics, literary studies, rhetoric, psychology and theology,...  Read More >>

"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 >>

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The volume explores clause-linkage strategies from a cross-linguistic perspective with an emphasis on asyndetic...  Read More >>

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As the first volume of a two-volume set that reexamines nouns and verbs in Chinese, this book proposes the verbs-as-nouns...  Read More >>

Ever wondered how the phrase ""pull a Houdini"" found its way into our lexicon and what it reveals about the art...  Read More >>

Ever wondered how the phrase ""pull a Houdini"" found its way into our lexicon and what it reveals about the art...  Read More >>

This is a Scots translation of Clement Moor's classic poem, ""The Night Before Christmas"", translated by Scots...  Read More >>

Every effort is made to make the book easily understandable. Rigi Etymology bears no resemblance to any other English...  Read More >>

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Exploring not only what Utah English is but also what it isn’t.  Read More >>

A study of the concept and philosophy of mantras which were used by the Hindus, Buddhists, and Jains alike for their...  Read More >>

Die mittelalterliche Bibliothek der Franziskaner in Freiburg i. U. hat die politischen Wirren der Jahrhunderte ebenso...  Read More >>

This book provides a new account of the rise of Balto-Slavic acuteness from an Indo-European perspective. It is...  Read More >>

In this volume, cases of metaphorical language use in Ancient Greek from the domains of temperature, weight and...  Read More >>

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Translation for the theatre is often considered to hold a marginal status between literary translation and adaptation...  Read More >>