Historical & comparative linguistics books

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Mother Tongue: The surprising history of women's words -'A gem of a book' (Kate Mosse)

Mother Tongue: The surprising history of women's words...

Author: Jenni Nuttall
ISBN: 9780349015293
Format: Paperback
$36.99

A rich, provocative and entertaining history of women's words - of the language we have, and haven't, had to share...  Read More >>

Scottish Plant Names: An A to Z

Scottish Plant Names: An A to Z

Author: Gregory Kenicer
ISBN: 9781910877449
Format: Hardback
$43.96

Covering a vast variety of flower, funghi and mosses in the language of the people of Scotland.  Read More >>

Lexikalische Texte III. Zeichenlisten: Teil 1: Einleitung, Katalog, Textbearbeitungen, Verzeichnisse Teil 2: Glossare Und Keilschriftautographien

Lexikalische Texte III. Zeichenlisten: Teil 1: Einleitung,...

Author: Ivan Hrusa ,  Frauke Weiershauser
ISBN: 9783447119313
Format: Hardback
$498.96

Der von Ivan Hrusa und Frauke Weiershauser herausgegebene zweiteilige Band bietet die kritische Edition von 116...  Read More >>

Joschua und Melchisedek: Studien zur Entwicklung des Jerusalemer Hohepriesteramtes vom 6. bis zum 2. Jahrhundert v. Chr.

Joschua und Melchisedek: Studien zur Entwicklung des...

Author: Sarah Schulz
ISBN: 9783110793413
Format: Hardback
$188.67

Im Zusammenspiel von Analysen einschlägiger biblischer Texte (insb. Hag und Sach 1-8; Esr 1-6; Gen 14; Ps 110) und...  Read More >>

Die Sprache Der Koniglichen Stelen Der 18. Dynastie Bis Einschliealich Amenophis III.

Die Sprache Der Koniglichen Stelen Der 18. Dynastie...

Author: Marc Brose
ISBN: 9783943955286
Format: Hardback
$219.12

Hieroglyphic Inscriptions with historical-biographical content from the 18th dynasty are found continuously until...  Read More >>

Beyond Cohesion: Toward a Theory of Coherence

Beyond Cohesion: Toward a Theory of Coherence

Author: Frank A. Davis
ISBN: 9781636671031
Format: Hardback
$121.31

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Language and Nationality: Social Inferences, Cultural Differences, and Linguistic Misconceptions

Language and Nationality: Social Inferences, Cultural...

Author: Dr Pietro Bortone (University of Oxford, UK)
ISBN: 9781350071643
Format: Paperback
$59.99

What role does language play in the formation and perpetuation of our ideas about nationality and other social categories?...  Read More >>

Sayings & Their Stories: Uncovering the Origins of 200 Common Phrases

Sayings & Their Stories: Uncovering the Origins of 200...

Author: Campbell Jessop
ISBN: 9781667897660
Format: Paperback
$52.77

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A Systemic Functional Typology of MOOD

A Systemic Functional Typology of MOOD

Author: Dongqi Li
ISBN: 9789811988202
Format: Hardback
$369.57

This book is a successful integration of the typological and systemic functional approaches to mood, aiming to investigate...  Read More >>

Studien Zum Genderneutralen Maskulinum

Studien Zum Genderneutralen Maskulinum

Author: Eckhard Meineke
ISBN: 9783825395056
Format: Hardback
$110.88

Die Studien zum genderneutralen Maskulinum gehen vom Epikoinon aus, das ungeachtet seines maskulinen, femininen...  Read More >>

What's the Difference

What's the Difference

Author: Thomas J Baechle ,  David Helton
ISBN: 9781960142214
Format: Hardback
$63.33

In What's the Difference, the distinctions between similar words are explored. Words such as cemeteries and graveyards,...  Read More >>

Interaktionskompetenz Im Ausbildungskontext: Eine Untersuchung Der Reparaturpraktiken Von Gefluchteten in Betrieblichen Gesprachen Und Ihre Longitudinale Entwicklung

Interaktionskompetenz Im Ausbildungskontext: Eine Untersuchung...

Author: Santana Overath
ISBN: 9783825395193
Format: Hardback
$219.12

Seit der Migrationswelle 2015 steht Deutschland der gesellschaftspolitischen Herausforderung gegenuber, hunderttausende...  Read More >>

African languages from a Role and Reference Grammar perspective: Studies on the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface

African languages from a Role and Reference Grammar...

Author: Jens Fleischhauer ,  Claudius Patrick Kihara
ISBN: 9783110794977
Format: Paperback
$85.71

African languages cover more than one fourth of the world's languages, but still have been underrepresented in linguistic...  Read More >>

A Grammar of Piedmontese: A Minority Language of Northwest Italy

A Grammar of Piedmontese: A Minority Language of Northwest...

Author: Mauro Tosco ,  Emanuele Miola
ISBN: 9789004544055
Format: Hardback
$520.08

The first comprehensive and linguistically updated grammar of Piedmontese, a threatened language of northwest Italy....  Read More >>

Transforming Authority: Concepts of Leadership in Prophetic and Chronistic Literature

Transforming Authority: Concepts of Leadership in Prophetic...

Author: Katharina Pyschny ,  Sarah Schulz
ISBN: 9783111256009
Format: Paperback
$34.23

The volume presents 15 articles of renowned international scholars on human leadership in the Hebrew Bible. Various...  Read More >>

East Anglian English

East Anglian English

Author: Peter Trudgill
ISBN: 9781501521478
Format: Paperback
$34.23

This book is the first full-scale scientific study of East Anglian English. The author is a native East Anglian...  Read More >>

Schreiben im Ersten Weltkrieg: Französische Briefe und Tagebücher wenig geübter Schreiber aus der deutsch-französischen Grenzregion

Schreiben im Ersten Weltkrieg: Französische Briefe und...

Author: Lena Sowada
ISBN: 9783111266015
Format: Paperback
$51.39

What shape does written language usage take in the diaries and letters of people with little routine in writing?...  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Prescriptivism

The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Prescriptivism...

Author: Joan C. Beal ,  Morana Lukač
ISBN: 9780367557843
Format: Hardback
$452.00

This handbook provides a comprehensive and cutting-edge overview of the field of linguistic prescriptivism. Mapping...  Read More >>

The Grammar of Multiple Head-Movement: A Comparative Study

The Grammar of Multiple Head-Movement: A Comparative...

Author: Phil Branigan (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, Memorial University of Newfoundland)
ISBN: 9780197677032
Format: Hardback
$209.00

Head-movement has played a central role in morpho-syntactic theory, but its nature has remained unclear. While it...  Read More >>

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