Historical & comparative linguistics books

Examines exiled Caribbean authors - Edwidge Danticat, Jamaica Kincaid, V. S. Naipaul, Maryse Conde, Dany Laferriere,...  Read More >>

A practical, understandable, and accessible resource for learning the language of the New Testament. Introducing...  Read More >>

The two inter-linked volumes of Thibault’s study articulate crucially important aspects of an emerging new perspective...  Read More >>

Investigates how dialect variation in the North of England is represented in writing.  Read More >>

Locating the subjunctive at the interface of mood and modality, this book presents a systematic description of the...  Read More >>

The written and spoken forms of Arabic have been traditionally viewed as separate forms of the language that rarely...  Read More >>

This book discusses the features of the alleged disappearance and uses over time of the passé simple, while testing...  Read More >>

This book implements a new approach to the study of manipulative tactics in selected Congressional debates in the...  Read More >>

Based on a purpose-built 45-million-word corpus, this book offers timely and original linguistic insights into how...  Read More >>

The Last Language on Earth is an ethnographic history of the disputed Eskayan language, spoken today by an isolated...  Read More >>

A useful companion to the seventh volume of K. A. Kitchen’s seminal Ramesside Inscriptions Ramesside Inscriptions:...  Read More >>

Based on a purpose-built 45-million-word corpus, this book offers timely and original linguistic insights into how...  Read More >>

The Last Language on Earth is an ethnographic history of the disputed Eskayan language, spoken today by an isolated...  Read More >>

Certain categories escape borrowing. Grammatical gender hardly arises in language contact. The borrowability of...  Read More >>

Uses an interdisciplinary approach to throw light on the transmission process of Linear A to Linear B script, by...  Read More >>

The book is a collection of ten research papers in which leading scholars approach different aspects of the study...  Read More >>

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission...  Read More >>

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission...  Read More >>

Das ""Lessico etimologico italiano"" bietet: 1. Das erste etymologische Grundlagenworterbuch, das systematisch die...  Read More >>

This volume on early modern inter-Asian translation examines how translation from plain Chinese was situated at...  Read More >>

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