Historical & comparative linguistics books

In der Sprachursprungsforschung ist lange die Ansicht vertreten worden, es gebe eine vorrangige Verbindung zwischen...  Read More >>

Lingua Aegyptia (recommended abbreviation: LingAeg) publishes articles and book reviews on all aspects of Egyptian...  Read More >>

The Egyptian Root Lexicon presents the envisaged roots of the Egyptian words, hypothetically established on the...  Read More >>

This volume offers a diachronic sociolinguistic perspective on one of the most complex and fascinating variable...  Read More >>

There has never been a time in created history more pregnant with expectation than the season we are currently living...  Read More >>

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From 2010 to 2014, the Classics Department at the University of Heidelberg set out to trace over two millennia of...  Read More >>

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This study is the first attempt to reconstruct the prehistory of Arabic by examining lexical evidence of its symbiotic...  Read More >>

Given the present state of affairs in the area of intertextuality, along with the multitude of competing interpretations...  Read More >>

Die ersten Lehrwerke fur moderne Fremdsprachen, die zwischen dem 15. und 17. Jahrhundert in Europa gedruckt wurden,...  Read More >>

This book is a collection of essays on the history and evolution of the Pāli language, which preserves the earliest...  Read More >>

This study sheds new light on the trials of 'libertine' authors (a term for religious, sexual, social or moral subversion),...  Read More >>

This book analyzes the existence of the three nuances of the perfect tense occurring in the Greek New Testament:...  Read More >>

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The present volume is a monographic study devoted to selected aspects of English historical phonology, orthography,...  Read More >>

This book analyzes the existence of the three nuances of the perfect tense occurring in the Greek New Testament:...  Read More >>

Reflexes of syllabic liquids play an important yet controversial role in Greek dialect classification and the analysis...  Read More >>

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This book is a collection of papers written in honor of Professor Elżbieta Mańczak-Wohlfeld on the occasion of her...  Read More >>

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An intensive overview of Mexican American English, linking it to the speech of other immigrant groups worldwide. This...  Read More >>

This fascinating volume is not merely a learned treatise in historical semantics; it is itself a stupendous display...  Read More >>

Many of the world's languages permit or require clause-initial positioning of the primary predicate, potentially...  Read More >>