Historical & comparative linguistics books

Focusing on /str/-retraction, this pioneering book uses a combination of phonological and sociolinguistic theories...  Read More >>

This book charts the trajectory of Heidegger’s concept of silence by focusing on its relation to truth as the unconcealedness...  Read More >>

Das Uigurische Worterbuch beinhaltet die Sprache der ersten Hochkultur der Turkvolker. Die uigurischen Konigreiche...  Read More >>

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Sociolinguistic research on immigrant communities in Italy has widely studied the acquisition and use of Italian...  Read More >>

This volume historically investigates the Old Uigur administrative orders of compulsory requisitions (including...  Read More >>

Das Bayerische Wörterbuch führt - nach den Grundsätzen moderner Lexikographie und auf ungleich größerer Materialbasis...  Read More >>

This Element documents the evolution of a research program that began in the early 1960s with the author's first...  Read More >>

All the words in the Gulistán and other prescribed textbooks were also included.  Read More >>

The most detailed and comprehensive study to date of early Latin language, literary and non-literary, featuring...  Read More >>

Nese is a dying Oceanic language spoken on the island of Malekula, in northern Vanuatu. This book, based on first-hand...  Read More >>

To give Westbury the attention it deserves requires a book that is history, fiction, memoir, poetry, and photographs....  Read More >>

This is the first book-length palaeographic study of about a thousand fragments in Syriac and Sogdian languages...  Read More >>

The book shows how humor has changed since the advent of the internet: new genres, new contexts, and new audiences....  Read More >>

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The Early New High German Dictionary is an alphabetically-ordered dictionary of the varieties of High German from...  Read More >>

A new overview of Roman declamation, one of the least studied but most important genres of ancient literature. Letano...  Read More >>

Reformen der politischen Wirklichkeit durch Sprache  Read More >>

Xiaolu Guo has been lauded as a ""voice . . . speaking with full freedom"" (Wall Street Journal), which has made...  Read More >>

Xiaolu Guo has been lauded as a ""voice . . . speaking with full freedom"" (Wall Street Journal), which has made...  Read More >>

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Written by leading international scholars and activists with a wealth of practical experience, this guidebook provides...  Read More >>

With contributions from world-renowned scholars, this book explains how both modern linguistics and individual languages...  Read More >>

By comparing interpersonal grammar systems – whereby the grammatical structures of languages are interpreted in...  Read More >>