Historical & comparative linguistics books

David Toshio Tsumura's new book illustrates how to read Biblical Hebrew poetry effectively by focusing on the basic...  Read More >>

David Toshio Tsumura's new book illustrates how to read Biblical Hebrew poetry effectively by focusing on the basic...  Read More >>

This volume brings together research on panel studies with the aim of providing a coherent empirical and theoretical...  Read More >>

This book is the first comprehensive, research-based description of the development, structure, and use of Welsh...  Read More >>

This volume examines the current state of the theoretical and empirical debate on mixed languages and presents new...  Read More >>

Unserdeutsch (Rabaul Creole German) is the only German-based creole language. This contact variety arose at the...  Read More >>

This study examines colonially motivated street naming processes during the German Reich. It collects and analyses...  Read More >>

This book is a collection of ten case studies on lexical borrowing in Island Southeast Asia and New Guinea, a region...  Read More >>

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST A New York Times Notable Book of 2022 What does it take to reinvent a language? After...  Read More >>

Though typically associated more with Judaism than Christianity, the status and sacrality of Hebrew has nonetheless...  Read More >>

The infinitival particle to carries the feature irrealis and is one of the irrealis moods.Infinitives are of different...  Read More >>

Politeness plays a vital role in maintaining class differences. This book analyses the interrelationship between...  Read More >>

With individual chapters embracing different theoretical perspectives, from the purely descriptive to formal analyses...  Read More >>

This book offers a glimpse into the sound critical and editorial background of Shakespeare's King Lear, especially...  Read More >>

In providing an analysis of the grammar of the dialect of seven counties along the Yellow River, this two-volume...  Read More >>

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Study the meaning of biblical words in original languages without spending years learning Greek. W. E. Vine’s New...  Read More >>

Study the meaning of biblical words in original languages without spending years learning Greek. W. E. Vine’s New...  Read More >>

Since 1945, German and British intellectuals and politicians have struggled to define the term “conservative” throughout...  Read More >>

The Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage: School Edition is intended to be used by secondary schoolchildren of...  Read More >>

"Nel saggio vengono studiate una serie di parole, perlopiù opache etimologicamente, sia dell'albanese che del sardo,...  Read More >>

Es kommt nicht haufig vor, dass eine Sprache innerhalb kurzer Zeit grundlegend verandert wird. Bei der deutschen...  Read More >>

Basics of Akkadian, by Gordon P. Hugenberger with Nancy L. Erickson, is a one-semester introductory textbook to...  Read More >>

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

This book is a groundbreaking study of etiquette in the nineteenth century when the success of etiquette books reached...  Read More >>