Historical & comparative linguistics books

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In der Levante des spaten 2. und 1. Jahrtausends v.Chr. sind Techniken und Traditionen entstanden, die die Welt...  Read More >>

Unter dem Schlagwort 'Kiezdeutsch' wurde in den letzten zehn Jahren intensiv uber die Herkunft des deutschen Multiethnolekts...  Read More >>

Forget the language instinct--this is the story of how we make up language as we go Language is perhaps humanity's most...  Read More >>

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Coptic emerged as the written form of the Egyptian language in the third century, when Greek was still the official...  Read More >>

This book is the first comparative study of English, German, French, Russian and Hungarian anti-proverbs based on...  Read More >>

This volume celebrates the work of the American linguist Mark R. Hale with contributions from general and historical...  Read More >>

This book is a comprehensive study on the phonetic characteristics of citation tones in Chaoshan Chinese. This book...  Read More >>

This book presents a comprehensive picture of reflexive pronouns from both a theoretical and experimental perspective,...  Read More >>

This book is a history of Creole, or 'dialect', literature and performance in the English-speaking Caribbean. It...  Read More >>

This volume focuses on cutting-edge research in the history of the English language, while reflecting the diversity...  Read More >>

This volume focuses on the role of language contact in the history of English. Using a wide variety of historical...  Read More >>

Das 18. Jahrhundert ist in seiner Bedeutung fur die Entwicklung des Gegenwartsdeutschen kaum zu uberschatzen. Dennoch...  Read More >>

This book suggests a new theory on the origins and Urheimat of the Turks within the context of Central Eurasia and,...  Read More >>

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This Yearbook discusses notions and concepts of time. Specialists in their field contribute with analyses that cover...  Read More >>

This study analyzes the historical and sociolinguistic dynamics of the dialect contact among Galloitalic dialects...  Read More >>

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This volume presents the up-to-date results of investigations into the Asian origins of the only two languages families...  Read More >>

Practice units refer to charts located in textbook: Basic English Grammar by Betty S. Azar, Stacy A. Hagen, Geneva...  Read More >>

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This book provides the most comprehensive and detailed formal account to date of the evolution of French syntax....  Read More >>

Lyle Campbell's linguistic fieldwork has taken him to numerous countries, sometimes in challenging circumstances....  Read More >>