Historical & comparative linguistics books

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Administrative Reports: A Corpus Study of the Genre in the EU and Polish National Settings

Administrative Reports: A Corpus Study of the Genre...

Author: Łucja Biel ,  Katarzyna Wasilewska
ISBN: 9783631867068
Format: Hardback
$109.45

This book investigates administrative reports prepared in the EU and national settings. The multidimensional genre...  Read More >>

Etymologische Untersuchungen: Band 1

Etymologische Untersuchungen: Band 1

Author: Hugo Weber
ISBN: 9785519722926
Format: Hardback
$77.60

This book, Etymologische Untersuchungen Band 1 , by Hugo Weber, is a replication of a book originally published...  Read More >>

Linguist on the Loose: Adventures and Misadventures in Fieldwork

Linguist on the Loose: Adventures and Misadventures...

Author: Lyle Campbell (Professor of Linguistics, University of Hawai'i at Manoa) ,  Wade Davis
ISBN: 9781474494144
Format: Hardback
$200.00

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

Decoding Norse Myths with Pet Ravens

Decoding Norse Myths with Pet Ravens

Author: Lois P Liggett
ISBN: 9798985260717
Format: Paperback
$27.40

Norse mythology has intrigued mythologists, linguists, and runologists for many decades. This intrigue lies in the...  Read More >>

The Literary Expressions of Chinese Experience

The Literary Expressions of Chinese Experience

Author: Mao Nie
ISBN: 9781433177071
Format: Hardback
$322.87

The book contains an in-depth analysis of the Chinese post-70s writers group, especially the literary xiangjun five...  Read More >>

Der Sprachtypus des Französischen in Grammatik und Paragrammatik: Eine funktionell-strukturelle Analyse der Einzelsprache unter Berücksichtigung der Sprachtypen der Allgemeinen Typenlehre

Der Sprachtypus des Französischen in Grammatik und Paragrammatik:...

Author: Bettina Kretz
ISBN: 9783110693843
Format: Hardback
$257.31

This typological linguistic study determines its object, modern French, holistically in that its comprehensive typology...  Read More >>

Partitive Determiners, Partitive Pronouns and Partitive Case

Partitive Determiners, Partitive Pronouns and Partitive...

Author: Petra Sleeman ,  Giuliana Giusti
ISBN: 9783110737295
Format: Hardback
$171.51

The fine-grained morpho-syntactic and semantic variation displayed by partitive elements across European languages...  Read More >>

Sanskrit Verb conjugation using Ashtadhyayi Sutras

Sanskrit Verb conjugation using Ashtadhyayi Sutras

Author: Ashwini Kumar Aggarwal ,  Sadhvi Hemswaroopa
ISBN: 9789392201950
Format: Paperback
$47.52

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

Noun-Based Constructions in the History of Portuguese and Spanish

Noun-Based Constructions in the History of Portuguese...

Author: Patricia Amaral (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Indiana University) ,  Manuel Delicado Cantero (Senior Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Australian National University)
ISBN: 9780198847182
Format: Hardback
$144.95

This book explores syntactic and semantic change in three types of complex construction in Spanish and Portuguese....  Read More >>

Translating Italy for the Nineteenth Century: Translators and an Imagined Nation in the Early Romantic Period 1816-1830s

Translating Italy for the Nineteenth Century: Translators...

Author: Mirella Agorni ,  Mirella Agorni
ISBN: 9783034336123
Format: Hardback
$100.78

In the early nineteenth century the theory and practice of translation received special attention in Italy, a country...  Read More >>

Wahrnehmungsdialektologie: Eine Einführung

Wahrnehmungsdialektologie: Eine Einführung

Author: Verena Sauer ,  Toke Hoffmeister
ISBN: 9783110633399
Format: Paperback
$51.39

Die Wahrnehmungsdialektologie, die Dialekt nicht nur als geografisches oder soziales, sondern auch als kognitives...  Read More >>

Einführung in das Altspanische

Einführung in das Altspanische

Author: Stefan Barme
ISBN: 9783838208039
Format: Paperback
$89.76

This introduction to Medieval Spanish, or Old Spanish, closes a long-standing gap in the literature. Focusing on...  Read More >>

Voice and Mood – A Linguistic Approach

Voice and Mood – A Linguistic Approach

Author: David L. Mathewson ,  Stanley Porter
ISBN: 9781540961433
Format: Paperback
$60.69

A recognized expert in Greek grammar examines two features of the Greek verb--voice and mood--in light of modern...  Read More >>

Points of Contact: The Shared Intellectual History of Vocalisation in Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew

Points of Contact: The Shared Intellectual History of...

Author: Nick Posegay
ISBN: 9781800642966
Format: Paperback
$81.71

In the first few centuries of Islam, Middle Eastern Christians, Muslims, and Jews alike all faced the challenges...  Read More >>

A Hebrew Reader for the Psalms: 40 Beloved Texts

A Hebrew Reader for the Psalms: 40 Beloved Texts

Author: Peter Myers ,  Jonathan Kline
ISBN: 9781683072720
Format: Hardback
$105.47

A Hebrew Reader for the Psalms 40 Beloved TextsCompiled and edited...  Read More >>

Dictionnaire Étymologique de l'Ancien Français (Deaf). Buchstabe D/E. Fasc. 1-2

Dictionnaire Étymologique de l'Ancien Français (Deaf)....

Author: Kurt Baldinger ,  Thomas Städtler
ISBN: 9783110750546
Format: Paperback
$197.97

The DEAF covers the entire vocabulary (including regional variants from Anglo-Norman to Franco-Italian) of Old French...  Read More >>

Points of Contact: The Shared Intellectual History of Vocalisation in Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew

Points of Contact: The Shared Intellectual History of...

Author: Nick Posegay
ISBN: 9781800642973
Format: Hardback
$131.87

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Gestaltphonologische Interpretation von Vokalsequenzierungen: Eine Studie zum Portugiesischen, Spanischen, Französischen, Italienischen und Rumänischen

Gestaltphonologische Interpretation von Vokalsequenzierungen:...

Author: Alexander M. Teixeira Kalkhoff
ISBN: 9783110716160
Format: Hardback
$171.51

This study presents a phenomenological approach to word-internal vowel sequencing. In this view, diphthongs and...  Read More >>

Latin as the Language of Science and Learning

Latin as the Language of Science and Learning

Author: Philipp Roelli
ISBN: 9783110745757
Format: Hardback
$154.35

This book approaches its topic from three angles: diachronic semantics, a panorama of science and scientific writing...  Read More >>

New worlds for old words / Mundos nuevos para viejas palabras: The impact of cultured borrowing on the languages of Western Europe / El impacto de los cultismos en los idiomas de Europa occidental

New worlds for old words / Mundos nuevos para viejas...

Author: Christopher Pountain ,  Bozena Wislocka Breit
ISBN: 9781648893865
Format: Paperback
$145.20

""New worlds for old words / Mundos nuevos para viejas palabras"" is a collection of chapters on the theme of lexical...  Read More >>

The Segmentation and Representation of Translocative Motion Events in English and Chinese Discourse: A Contrastive Study

The Segmentation and Representation of Translocative...

Author: Guofeng Zheng
ISBN: 9789813340398
Format: Paperback
$232.85

This book provides a systematic, contrastive analysis of the segmentation and representation of English and Chinese...  Read More >>

Il Geroglifico Elementare: Storia, Mistero E Fascino Della Madre Di Tutte Le Scritture: In Questa Piccola Elementare 'Grammatica' Tutti I Segreti Per Decifrare Quel Misterioso E Affascinante 'Linguaggio' Che Anticipo l'Emoticon

Il Geroglifico Elementare: Storia, Mistero E Fascino...

Author: Alberto Elli
ISBN: 9788862408417
Format: Paperback
$66.00

Tutti conoscono qualcosa dell'antica civilta egizia: Tutankhamon, Cleopatra, le piramidi, il Nilo, i faraoni, e...  Read More >>

The Lingua Franca: Contact-Induced Language Change in the Mediterranean

The Lingua Franca: Contact-Induced Language Change in...

Author: Natalie Operstein (University of California, Los Angeles)
ISBN: 9781316518311
Format: Hardback
$269.10

Whose name is hidden behind the anonymity of the key publication on Mediterranean Lingua Franca? What linguistic...  Read More >>

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