Historical & comparative linguistics books

"Hundert Jahre nach Erscheinen des Buchs 'Italienische Umgangssprache' des seiner Zeit weit voraus denkenden, universal...  Read More >>

Spanish in Chicago is the first book-length study of Spanish in Chicago, where populations originating in both Mexico...  Read More >>

"""Lavender Linguistics"" by Megan Dennis is a pocket-sized treasure, offering a vital lexicon of queer terminology...  Read More >>

This book is a state-of-the-art overview of English historical pragmatics, covering a range of topics, including...  Read More >>

Written by a team of global scholars, this is the first Handbook covering the rapidly growing field of historical...  Read More >>

This book is a state-of-the-art overview of English historical pragmatics, covering a range of topics, including...  Read More >>

"The New York Times bestseller now in paperback. One of the preeminent linguists of our time examines the realms...  Read More >>

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Shépa: 'explanation' or 'elucidation' in Tibetan. A form of oral poetry sung antiphonally in a question-and-answer...  Read More >>

Phonotactics and loanword vocabulary in Romance languages tend toward syllable simplification, but complex structures...  Read More >>

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It offers you a path to direct contact with “The Art of War”, the masterpiece of Sun Tzu, a classical theorist of...  Read More >>

Literary Onomastics analyzes the namecraft of authors ranging from William Shakespeare to George R. R. Martin, studying...  Read More >>

Liverpool: A Memoir of Words is a work of creative non-fiction that combines the study of language in Liverpool...  Read More >>

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My Life in Propaganda is Magda Stroińska's personal account of growing up with communist propaganda in Eastern Europe....  Read More >>

Of all the theological issues discussed in Christian circles, few have received more attention than the New Testament...  Read More >>

Exploring not only what Utah English is but also what it isn’t.  Read More >>

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

Prompted by the ‘linguistic turn’ of the late 20th century, intellectual and conceptual historians continue to devote...  Read More >>

Are we alone in the universe? If other lifeforms exist, how might their languages have evolved? Could we ever understand...  Read More >>

"Why do we love to swear so much? Why do we get so offended when others do it? In this lively and amusing exploration...  Read More >>