Language: history & general works books

Thomas Arnold's Practical Introduction to Latin Prose Composition, first published in 1839, was designed as a school...  Read More >>

A clear and detailed treatment of the complexities of Greek syntax, this 1867 handbook by Harvard professor William...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's language can be analysed with technical vocabulary, but it can also seem spontaneous, strange and...  Read More >>

The best introduction to word history ever published combines scholarship with readability. OED's chief etymologist...  Read More >>

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This book offers educational experiences, including reflections and the resulting essays, from the Roberta Kevelson...  Read More >>

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From the most profound questions of philosophy to queries of geography and science, this deadpan book is full of...  Read More >>

A witty and comprehensive exploration of euphemestic language and what our euphemisms reveal about us  Read More >>

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Rund 100 Autoren aus diversen Fachgebieten tragen ihre Forschungen und Erkenntnisse zu den Methoden und Themen der...  Read More >>

Gut und wirkungsvoll zu reden und zu verhandeln, ist in unserer medienorientierten Gesellschaft wichtiger denn je....  Read More >>

The eight volumes of the Grammatici Latini, edited by Heinrich Keil (1822–1894) and published by Teubner between...  Read More >>

The eight volumes of the Grammatici Latini, edited by Heinrich Keil (1822–1894) and published by Teubner between...  Read More >>

In this 1886 work, Boeckh accounts for his understanding of philology as a discipline that is not solely the study...  Read More >>

Illustrating how our knowledge of Latin has advanced over time, Lindsay's enduring 1894 work draws on earlier studies...  Read More >>

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Henry Nettleship's Contributions to Latin Lexicography (1889) was originally planed as a complete Latin lexicon...  Read More >>

The Sino-Japonic manuscript Xue-guanhua/Gaku-kanwa (Learning Mandarin Chinese), compiled for students from the...  Read More >>

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Suitable for students and scholars of the oldest known language with a sizeable corpus, belonging to the English,...  Read More >>

The phenomenon of multimodality has, as Jewitt observes, generated interest ""across many disciplines...against...  Read More >>

Collects the favourite words of 250 of the best and brightest contemporary thinkers and creators, ranging from Secretary...  Read More >>

What was the first language, and where did it come from? Do all languages have properties in common? What is the...  Read More >>

Looks at five hundred years of crooks and conmen, from the hedge-creepers and counterfeit cranks of the sixteenth...  Read More >>