Historical & comparative linguistics books

This volume brings together contributions from leading specialists in syntax and morphology to explore the complex...  Read More >>

This book is the first systematic description of the Hui'an, a variety of Southern Min spoken in the Fujian province...  Read More >>

This book presents a comprehensive reconstruction of Proto-Sogeram, the ancestor to ten languages spoken in Papua...  Read More >>

Resulting from a syntactic process, adjectivity refers to the adjectival use of a word. It partly comprises adjectivation,...  Read More >>

Veneziano de là da mar, 'Venetian from beyond the sea', this is how Gianfranco Folena referred to vernaculars of...  Read More >>

Dante Alighieri's letters are an outstanding example of political communication that was realized by a layman and...  Read More >>

The Books of Chronicles are generally considered the works of a single author, who attempts a canonical synthesis...  Read More >>

Der Band bietet einen Einblick in aktuelle Forschungsthemen der kolonialen und postkolonialen Toponomastik mit einem...  Read More >>

Con más de 700 definiciones de palabras teológicas y frases desde...  Read More >>

Lo studio delle scriptae lombarde e delle grandi opere della tradizione letteraria milanese ha raggiunto risultati...  Read More >>

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Uses the concepts of Gadugi and Duyvkta to explore the Eastern Cherokee oral tradition, and to explain how storytelling...  Read More >>

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This work examines the history of Quranic Arabic. Using manuscript and medieval literary evidence, it uncovers the...  Read More >>

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The surprising origins and people behind the world's most influential magical tales: the people who told and re-shaped...  Read More >>

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This edition gives the process whereby Primary Ting Affixes get Modified to the Secondary Ting Affixes for the eleven...  Read More >>

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