Historical & comparative linguistics books

This volume collects a selection of papers concerning the history of linguistics spanning the centuries from the...  Read More >>

This reader is part of a five-volume-edition and comprises an in-depth presentation of the state of the art in word-formation....  Read More >>

This volume provides a new set of methodological and theoretical approaches to the study of literary multilingualism...  Read More >>

Azuma Old Japanese is an areal term for the two major dialects of Eastern ('Azuma') Japan during the eighth century:...  Read More >>

This book is a detailed study of contact-induced change in the Neo-Aramaic dialect of the Jews of Sanandaj, a town...  Read More >>

This book gathers research on oblique subjects across the Germanic languages in one place. It also complements earlier...  Read More >>

The vocabulary from the beginning of the Low German language, the period of Old Saxon, has not been captured in...  Read More >>

The contributions in this edited volume represent diverse and innovative fields of language contact studies. The...  Read More >>

This study focuses on the cross-cultural specificities of the linguistic phenomena used to refer directly and indirectly...  Read More >>

This indicates that the innovative evolution of Zhe in Northwestern Chinese faces certain constraints, and it is...  Read More >>

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As an important introduction to the phonological history of Chinese, this title explores the phonological systems...  Read More >>

This edited book brings together studies on morphological case in Japanese, English, and Bantu languages, among...  Read More >>

Gammeldansk Loesebog, by Carl J. Brandt, is a historical linguistic work focusing on Old Danish. This volume serves...  Read More >>

Romance, Vision & Satire: English Alliterative Poems of the Fourteenth Century, presents a fascinating collection...  Read More >>

Lucubrationes Manilianae... is a scholarly work concerning the Roman poet Manilius, author of the astronomical poem...  Read More >>

""Die Älteste Zeittheilung des Indogermanischen Volkes"" by Otto Schrader, originally published in 1878, explores...  Read More >>

""A Rational Grammar"" by Jenkin Thomas Philipps, originally published in 1731, offers a fascinating glimpse into...  Read More >>

The Tradition of the Latin Accent by James Sugars McLemore offers a detailed exploration into the historical development...  Read More >>

""Études Étymologiques, Historiques Et Comparatives Sur Les Noms Des Villes, Bourgs Et Villages Du DÃ(c)partement...  Read More >>

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and...  Read More >>

""Vocabolario del dialetto antico vicentino; dal secolo 14 a tutto il secolo 16"" by Domenico Bortolan is a comprehensive...  Read More >>

In ""The Celtic Sub Stratum Of England,"" Thomas Kerslake explores the enduring influence of Celtic languages and...  Read More >>

""Prehistoric Antiquities of the Aryan Peoples"" by Otto Schrader and F.B. Jevons offers a detailed exploration...  Read More >>