Language: history & general works books

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

Go anywhere in the world today and you'll see or hear English in some form. It may not be the Queen's English that...  Read More >>

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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 >>

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

Charles Wordsworth's Graecae Grammaticae Rudimenta in Usum Scholarum was the foundational Greek grammar of nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

“A fascinating study not only of the roots and growth of our own language but of its future.”—Bloomsbury Review...  Read More >>

Focuses on urbanity as a discursive way of human life in the city. In this title, discourse is specified here in...  Read More >>

This accessible textbook in the Routledge Intertext series is offers students hands-on practical experience of textual...  Read More >>

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The extraordinary story of the development and spread of the English language, from Dark Age Britain to the age...  Read More >>

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Writing Galicia explores a part of Europe’s cultural and social landscape that has until now remained largely unmapped:...  Read More >>

The English Language surveys the development of the English language from its Indo-European origins to the present...  Read More >>

Following on from the successful David Crystal lectures DVD, The Future of Language, this DVD package includes 6...  Read More >>

This volume brings together twelve papers by linguists and philosophers contributing novel empirical and formal...  Read More >>

This Companion, now available in a paperback format, brings together more than 60 distinguished contributors to...  Read More >>

From the first words of an infant to the peculiar modern dialect of text messaging, this book reveals language's...  Read More >>

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The book shows how the system of English predicate complementation has been undergoing an amazing amount of variation...  Read More >>

This book presents Keith Gilyard's most seminal work in one volume, with new and previously published essays on...  Read More >>

This book presents Keith Gilyard's most seminal work in one volume, with new and previously published essays on...  Read More >>

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