Historical & comparative linguistics books

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

This book examines ancient and medieval thought on Greek enclitics and explores challenging questions about the...  Read More >>

Prosody in Medieval English and Norse reconstructs aspects of linguistic prosody from the medieval records of two...  Read More >>

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As the seventh volume of a multi-volume set on the Chinese language, this book studies the Mongolian influence on...  Read More >>

""This book represents a collection of papers presented at the workshop Rethinking the Origins: The Departure of...  Read More >>

The key to the phonetic development of a given word across time lies in its accentuation. As the Old Celtic remains...  Read More >>

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This text is an introductory course in Biblical Hebrew and Biblical Aramaic. It covers the vocabulary, morphology,...  Read More >>

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This book offers a truly interdisciplinary discussion on the relationship between the vocal and the instrumental...  Read More >>

This ambitious study of the proper names of the Chanson de Roland proves that it is more tightly and profoundly...  Read More >>

Sumerian Cuneiform is the oldest written language in the world. This glossary is intended for people who would like...  Read More >>

Sumerian Cuneiform is the oldest written language in the world. This glossary is intended for people who would like...  Read More >>

Das Buch bietet einen ersten Einblick in die Entstehungsgeschichte von Johann Jakob Sprengs Allgemeinem deutschen...  Read More >>

Papers of the Algonquian Conference is a collection of peer-reviewed scholarship from an annual international forum...  Read More >>

This small book features a collection of the first known vocabularies of the Mohawk language dating from the mid-17th...  Read More >>

In Novel Medical and General Hebrew Terminology from the Middle Ages, Volume 6 Gerrit Bos offers more terms not...  Read More >>

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This book provides a new approach to lexical borrowing by combining a socio-linguistic and a cognitive perspective...  Read More >>

While Verb-third (V3) patterns have long been studied in verb-second (V2) languages, a similar pattern in which...  Read More >>

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