Historical & comparative linguistics books

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This volume brings together leading scholars and junior researchers to provide a comprehensive account of the Uralic...  Read More >>

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

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Was hat Liebe mit Recht zu tun? Wozu diente ein Reilenagel? Diese und andere Fragen beantwortet das Deutsche Rechtswörterbuch,...  Read More >>

This volume offers an up-to-date survey of linguistic phenomena at the interfaces between syntax and prosody, information...  Read More >>

The present book analyzes the nominal domain in the Georgian language in its diachronic development. In Georgian,...  Read More >>

With the Analytic Meroitic Dictionary in six volumes, the first comprehensive catalogue of the words and lexemes...  Read More >>

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The L where a tabletop meets the legs, the T between double doors, the D of an armchair's oval backrest--all around...  Read More >>

A multi-disciplinary study of experiences of encountering strangeness and being constructed as strange in medieval...  Read More >>

Viking Mediologies is a study of pre-modern multimedia rooted in the embodied poetic practice of Viking Age skalds....  Read More >>

The first book to examine the language of coal miners in the East Midlands of England  Read More >>

Explores advances in the fields of language documentation, language change and historical linguistics  Read More >>

Viking Mediologies is a study of pre-modern multimedia rooted in the embodied poetic practice of Viking Age skalds....  Read More >>

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Der Band widmet sich der historischen Wortbildung des Niederdeutschen - mit dem Schwerpunkt Mittelniederdeutsch...  Read More >>

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This is Biblical Hebrew for All: Volume 3 (Intermediate) - Second Edition, the third book in a five volume series...  Read More >>

In this study of the language of the Septuagint, William A. Ross approaches the corpus in light of its contemporary...  Read More >>

For all those interested in literacy and script usage in general and in the ancient world in particular. As the...  Read More >>

This volume contains a new and up-to date selection of case studies which offer new insights on various topics in...  Read More >>

The book offers a panchronic analysis of queísmo, one of the oldest variational phenomena in Spanish syntax, from...  Read More >>

Ciceroniana erforscht die vielseitige Verwendung der Erzahlform Anekdote in Ciceros rhetoriktheoretischen und philosophischen...  Read More >>

This book analyzes the social dialect of Russian peasants in the twentieth century through their letters and stories....  Read More >>