Historical & comparative linguistics books

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A ground-breaking analysis of the origins of Western linguistic thought, exploring how ancient Greek and Mesopotamian...  Read More >>

A comprehensive look at the syntactic properties of Portuguese, focusing on differences between European and Brazilian...  Read More >>

Have you ever wondered about the origins of popular English idioms? From ""crying over spilled milk"" to going on...  Read More >>

Jahrhundert kritisch zu hinterfragen, indem relevante Identifikations- und Kategorisierungsprozesse, die Akteur:...  Read More >>

This volume presents contributions to the conference Old English Runes Workshop, organised by the Eichstätt-München...  Read More >>

This first-ever textbook of the Tocharian B language makes it readily accessible to a broad audience. Tocharian...  Read More >>

Reconstructs the rituals of Slavic pre-Christian religion and society through a close examination of written medieval...  Read More >>

It is also helpful for scholars working in both Latin and Romance linguistics: the former will find a freely available...  Read More >>

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This book provides a computational re-evaluation of the genealogical relations between the early Germanic families...  Read More >>

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This book provides a detailed cross-linguistic study of pseudo-noun incorporation, a phenomenon whereby an argument...  Read More >>

This study explores the relationship between the individual person (the self), the divine, and other people in the...  Read More >>

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This book comprises a comprehensive study of the main linguistic isoglosses shared between the Aeolic dialects and...  Read More >>

The present dictionary is an analytical, comparative and etymological presentation of reduplication over a wide...  Read More >>

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Provides valuable insights into the development and use of the Linear B writing system and important methodological...  Read More >>

As one of the most debated categories of Tocharian nominal morphology, grammatical gender is in this book investigated...  Read More >>

This volume presents a selection of primary sources—in many cases translated into English for the first time—with...  Read More >>

Provides the first-ever comprehensive account of languages in contact, cultural encounters, and systems of knowledge...  Read More >>

Having been a merchant in Antwerp, Gabriel Meurier created a school for the practice of modern languages open to...  Read More >>

Après trente-trois ans d'enseignement de la littérature, je me méfie toujours du sens obligatoire des mots et, ces...  Read More >>