Historical & comparative linguistics books

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Ancient Rhetoric and the Style of Paul's Letters: A Reference Book

Ancient Rhetoric and the Style of Paul's Letters: A...

Author: Timothy A Brookins
ISBN: 9781532698965
Format: Hardback
$124.08

Previous scholarship that has examined Paul's letters in light of Greco-Roman rhetoric has focused predominantly...  Read More >>

Negation and Negative Dependencies

Negation and Negative Dependencies

Author: Hedde Zeijlstra (Professor of English Linguistics and Theory of Grammar, Professor of English Linguistics and Theory of Grammar, University of Göttingen)
ISBN: 9780198833239
Format: Hardback
$271.95

This book presents a novel account of negation and negative dependencies, based on novel data from language variation,...  Read More >>

The Dutch Language in Japan (1600-1900): A Cultural and Sociolinguistic Study of Dutch as a Contact Language in Tokugawa and Meiji Japan

The Dutch Language in Japan (1600-1900): A Cultural...

Author: Christopher Joby
ISBN: 9789004536357
Format: Paperback
$134.64

In The Dutch Language in Japan (1600-1900) Christopher Joby offers the first book-length account of the knowledge...  Read More >>

Auto- und Heterostereotypie im Europa des 19. Jahrhunderts: Linguistische, literaturwissenschaftliche, historische und politikwissenschaftliche Perspektiven

Auto- und Heterostereotypie im Europa des 19. Jahrhunderts:...

Author: Annamária Fábián ,  Armin Owzar
ISBN: 9783662652862
Format: Paperback
$181.10

Mittels inter-, trans- und multidisziplinärer Ansätze behandeln die Autorinnen und Autoren des vorliegenden Bandes...  Read More >>

The Official Indonesian Qurʾān Translation: The History and Politics of Al-Qur'an dan Terjemahnya

The Official Indonesian Qurʾān Translation:...

Author: Fadhli Lukman
ISBN: 9781800643987
Format: Paperback
$118.67

This book studies the political and institutional project of Al-Qur'an dan Terjemahnya, the official translation...  Read More >>

The Official Indonesian Qurʾān Translation: The History and Politics of Al-Qur'an dan Terjemahnya

The Official Indonesian Qurʾān Translation:...

Author: Fadhli Lukman
ISBN: 9781800643994
Format: Hardback
$163.55

This book studies the political and institutional project of Al-Qur'an dan Terjemahnya, the official translation...  Read More >>

The Babel Message: A Love Letter to Language

The Babel Message: A Love Letter to Language

Author: Keith Kahn-Harris
ISBN: 9781785788956
Format: Paperback
$27.99

A thrilling journey deep into the heart of language, from a rather unexpected starting point.  Read More >>

Saramago After the Nobel: Contemporary Readings of José Saramago’s Late Works

Saramago After the Nobel: Contemporary Readings of José...

Author: Paulo Medeiros ,  Cláudia Pazos-Alonso
ISBN: 9781787078949
Format: Paperback
$108.68

José Saramago won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998, the first Portuguese-language writer to do so. This volume...  Read More >>

An Introduction to the Japonic Languages: Grammatical Sketches of Japanese Dialects and Ryukyuan Languages

An Introduction to the Japonic Languages: Grammatical...

Author: Michinori Shimoji
ISBN: 9789004518889
Format: Hardback
$396.00

An informative typological guide of the Japonic family for linguists of any theoretical persuasions who are not...  Read More >>

Diachronic Variation in the Omani Arabic Vernacular of the Al-ʿAwābī District

Diachronic Variation in the Omani Arabic Vernacular...

Author: Roberta Morano
ISBN: 9781800647220
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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Language Revitalisation and Social Transformation

Language Revitalisation and Social Transformation

Author: Huw Lewis ,  Wilson McLeod
ISBN: 9783030801915
Format: Paperback
$336.35

This book brings together an interdisciplinary group of academic researchers in order to examine how and to what...  Read More >>

The Enchanted Figtree

The Enchanted Figtree

Author: Beatrice Guenther ,  Marco Micone
ISBN: 9781800798137
Format: Hardback
$90.56

Marco Micone’s The Enchanted Figtree, here presented for the first time in English, is about his experiences as...  Read More >>

Diachronic Variation in the Omani Arabic Vernacular of the Al-ʿAwābī District

Diachronic Variation in the Omani Arabic Vernacular...

Author: Roberta Morano
ISBN: 9781800647237
Format: Hardback
$150.35

In this monograph, Roberta Morano re-examines one of the foundational works of the Omani Arabic dialectology field,...  Read More >>

Biblical Aramaic and Related Dialects: An Introduction

Biblical Aramaic and Related Dialects: An Introduction...

Author: Edward Cook (Catholic University of America, Washington DC)
ISBN: 9781108494366
Format: Hardback
$323.44

A comprehensive, introductory-level textbook for anyone who wants to learn the Aramaic of the Old Testament, and...  Read More >>

Ein Sendbrief vom Dolmetschen und Fürbitte der Heiligen: An Open Letter on Translating and the Intercession of Saints

Ein Sendbrief vom Dolmetschen und Fürbitte der Heiligen:...

Author: Martin Luther ,  Howard Jones
ISBN: 9780995456495
Format: Paperback
$18.45

Martin Luther’s pamphlet on how to translate the Bible is a seminal work in the history of the German language and...  Read More >>

Middle Voice Verbs in the New Testament: Studies in Pauline Usage

Middle Voice Verbs in the New Testament: Studies in...

Author: Susan E Kmetko
ISBN: 9781636630304
Format: Paperback
$76.53

Susan E. Kmetko challenges the general lack of significance afforded the 3726 middle voice verb forms in the Greek...  Read More >>

First-Ever Full Translation: Genesis 1 through 11: The Aliens' Sexual Revelation

First-Ever Full Translation: Genesis 1 through 11: The...

Author: Albert E Potts
ISBN: 9781977253989
Format: Hardback
$94.91

This is not the translation of a religious text. It is the original, and initial, translation of an extremely ancient...  Read More >>

GlossaHouse Catalog

GlossaHouse Catalog

Author: Glossahouse 2022
ISBN: 9781636630403
Format: Paperback
$26.37

"GlossaHouse, on the cutting-edge of publishing for the last decade, produces works in the areas of language, hermeneutics,...  Read More >>

Ancient Roots of Creation and Afterlife Beliefs

Ancient Roots of Creation and Afterlife Beliefs

Author: Mitra Ara
ISBN: 9781433197970
Format: Hardback
$250.67

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Esperanto and Languages of Internationalism in Revolutionary Russia

Esperanto and Languages of Internationalism in Revolutionary...

Author: Associate Professor Brigid O'Keeffe (Brooklyn College, USA)
ISBN: 9781350245181
Format: Paperback
$61.99

Winner of the 2022 Ab Imperio Award Hoping to unite all of humankind and revolutionize the world, Ludwik Zamenhof...  Read More >>

A Reader in Biblical Greek

A Reader in Biblical Greek

Author: Richard a Wright
ISBN: 9780802879240
Format: Paperback
$65.97

""A graduated reader of biblical Koine for anyone who has completed at least one year of Greek, with selections...  Read More >>

The City-States of the Jawf at the Dawn of Ancient South Arabian History (8th-6th Centuries Bce). II: Corpus of the Inscriptions

The City-States of the Jawf at the Dawn of Ancient South...

Author: Irene Rossi
ISBN: 9788891322944
Format: Paperback
$1158.96

From the Jawf region of Yemen come the earliest Ancient South Arabian epigraphs, dating back since the 8th century...  Read More >>

The City-States of the Jawf at the Dawn of Ancient South Arabian History (8th-6th Centuries Bce). III: A Lexical and Onomastic Index of the Inscriptions

The City-States of the Jawf at the Dawn of Ancient South...

Author: Mounir Arbach ,  Irene Rossi
ISBN: 9788891322982
Format: Paperback
$330.00

About three hundred inscriptions have come down to us from the earliest historical period of the Jawf region of...  Read More >>

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