Historical & comparative linguistics books

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India in the Persian World of Letters: Ḳhān-i Ārzū among the Eighteenth-Century Philologists

India in the Persian World of Letters: Ḳhān-i Ārzū among...

Author: Arthur Dudney (Director of Cultural Programmes, Arcadia Fund)
ISBN: 9780192857415
Format: Hardback
$200.95

This book traces the development of philology (the study of literary language) in Persian tradition in India, focusing...  Read More >>

The Mechanism of Speech

The Mechanism of Speech

Author: Wolfgang Von Kempelen ,  Bert Vaux
ISBN: 9781725261853
Format: Hardback
$110.88

In the late eighteenth century Hungarian inventor Wolfgang von Kempelen, inspired by the success of his Mechanical...  Read More >>

Transmitting Minority Languages: Complementary Reversing Language Shift Strategies

Transmitting Minority Languages: Complementary Reversing...

Author: Michael Hornsby ,  Wilson McLeod
ISBN: 9783030879099
Format: Hardback
$336.35

This book gives fresh insight into the diverse ways in which the transmission of minority and heritage languages...  Read More >>

Designing and Evaluating Language Corpora: A Practical Framework for Corpus Representativeness

Designing and Evaluating Language Corpora: A Practical...

Author: Jesse Egbert (Northern Arizona University) ,  Douglas Biber (Northern Arizona University)
ISBN: 9781107151383
Format: Hardback
$256.16

The use of language corpora, or large samples of natural texts, has become ubiquitous in linguistic research. Yet,...  Read More >>

Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark

Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood...

Author: Cecelia Watson
ISBN: 9780062853066
Format: Paperback
$50.13

Parts of this book were previously published in 'Critical Inquiry'.  Read More >>

Contes populaires de Basse-Bretagne: édition intégrale des trois volumes

Contes populaires de Basse-Bretagne: édition intégrale...

Author: François-Marie Luzel
ISBN: 9782322380541
Format: Paperback
$154.44

RÉSUMÉ ""Contes populaires de Basse-Bretagne"" est une collection fascinante de récits traditionnels recueillis...  Read More >>

A Greek Reader: Companion to a Primer of Biblical Greek

A Greek Reader: Companion to a Primer of Biblical Greek...

Author: Mark Jeong
ISBN: 9780802879912
Format: Paperback
$50.16

A companion resource for use with N. Clayton Croy's Primer of Biblical Greek, featuring dozens of simple, enjoyable...  Read More >>

Standardising English Spelling: The Role of Printing in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-century Graphemic Developments

Standardising English Spelling: The Role of Printing...

Author: Marco Condorelli (University of Central Lancashire, Preston)
ISBN: 9781009098144
Format: Hardback
$269.10

This book provides both fresh insights into sixteenth and seventeenth-century spelling standardisation in England,...  Read More >>

Les toponymes et les anthroponymes d'origine arabe dans la Péninsule Ibérique

Les toponymes et les anthroponymes d'origine arabe dans...

Author: Federico Corriente ,  Christophe Pereira
ISBN: 9783110716146
Format: Hardback
$159.50

This volume provides an inventory of names of Andalusi Arabic origin found on the Iberian Peninsula, along with...  Read More >>

La Genese de l'Ecriture

La Genese de l'Ecriture

Author: Denise Schmandt-Besserat ,  Nathalie Ferron
ISBN: 9782251452937
Format: Paperback
$87.12

La conception scientifique de la genese de l'ecriture decoule des decouvertes de Denise Schmandt-Besserat. Ce livre...  Read More >>

The Development of Biblical Hebrew Prepositions

The Development of Biblical Hebrew Prepositions

Author: H H Hardy
ISBN: 9781628374230
Format: Paperback
$129.36

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Papers of the Fifty-First Algonquian Conference

Papers of the Fifty-First Algonquian Conference

Author: Monica Macaulay ,  Margaret Noodin
ISBN: 9781611864243
Format: Paperback
$118.67

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Hebrew Matters: 110 Hebrew Roots; the Roads They Take; the Stories They Tell

Author: Joseph Lowin
ISBN: 9798985730043
Format: Paperback
$65.97

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The Development of Biblical Hebrew Prepositions

The Development of Biblical Hebrew Prepositions

Author: H H Hardy
ISBN: 9781628375077
Format: Hardback
$142.31

The Development of Biblical Hebrew Prepositions presents an analysis of the sources and diachronic developments...  Read More >>

La Historia de la Lengua, La Dialectología Y El Concepto de Cambio Lingueístico En El Pensamiento de Eugenio Coseriu

La Historia de la Lengua, La Dialectología Y El Concepto...

Author: José María García Martín ,  Maryia Maiseyenka
ISBN: 9783631868409
Format: Hardback
$159.26

En La Historia de la lengua, la dialectología y el concepto de cambio lingüístico en el pensamiento de Eugenio Coseriu...  Read More >>

A Featural Typology of Bantu Agreement

A Featural Typology of Bantu Agreement

Author: Jenneke van der Wal (Senior Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics)
ISBN: 9780198844280
Format: Hardback
$200.95

This book explores variation in Bantu subject and object marking on the basis of data from 75 Bantu languages. It...  Read More >>

Urban Contact Dialects and Language Change: Insights from the Global North and South

Urban Contact Dialects and Language Change: Insights...

Author: Paul Kerswill ,  Heike Wiese
ISBN: 9781138596092
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Introduction to Classical Nahuatl

Introduction to Classical Nahuatl

Author: J. Richard Andrews
ISBN: 9780806181127
Format: Paperback
$104.00

For many years, J. Richard Andrews’s Introduction to Classical Nahuatl has been the standard reference work for...  Read More >>

Uncommon Anthropologist: Gladys Reichard and Western Native American Culture

Uncommon Anthropologist: Gladys Reichard and Western...

Author: Nancy Mattina
ISBN: 9780806190075
Format: Paperback
$57.99

A trailblazer in Native American linguistics and anthropology, Gladys Reichard (1893-1955) is one of America’s least...  Read More >>

The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts

The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine...

Author: Silvia Ferrara ,  Todd Portnowitz
ISBN: 9798212081399
Format: Audio
$110.85

""Silvia Ferrara leads a code cracking mission to decipher the hidden truths and histories of our greatest invention-the...  Read More >>

Der Arabische Dialekt Der Christen Von Ka'biye (Diyarbakir)

Der Arabische Dialekt Der Christen Von Ka'biye (Diyarbakir)...

Author: Otto Jastrow
ISBN: 9783447117531
Format: Hardback
$277.20

Ka'biye gehorte zu einer Gruppe von christlichen arabischsprachigen Dorfern, die in der Umgebung von Diyarbakir...  Read More >>

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