Language: history & general works books

This book traces the development of philology (the study of literary language) in Persian tradition in India, focusing...  Read More >>

This book gives fresh insight into the diverse ways in which the transmission of minority and heritage languages...  Read More >>

Despite visitors' opinions, Cyprus is neither an outpost of the empire and nor is it just a beach next to a nightclub....  Read More >>

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This is the first of three volumes offering a new history of lexicography in and beyond the early modern British...  Read More >>

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Few countries in the world inspire love and passion in its visitors like Italy. Whether it's the delicious food...  Read More >>

This volume brings together a diverse range of scholars to address important philosophical and interdisciplinary...  Read More >>

This book offers a new approach to understanding disinformation and its destructive impact on the democratic function...  Read More >>

This book brings together leading academics and practitioners working in the area of language, gender, sexuality...  Read More >>

This volume is the first to provide an up-to-date and comprehensive history of phonology, spanning the history of...  Read More >>

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Dieses Lehrbuch führt aus einer komparatistischen Perspektive in die linguistische Beschreibung und Analyse des...  Read More >>

This book is dedicated to the life and work of the mathematician Joachim Lambek (1922–2014). After early work...  Read More >>

Together with the first volume “Inquiries in philosophical pragmatics: Theoretical developments,” this book collects...  Read More >>

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In early modern Europe, literature and literate knowledge were produced within societies organised along hierarchical...  Read More >>

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This handbook provides an overview of the development of language teaching materials, critical discussion of core...  Read More >>

This book, which is also of great linguistic value, ends with four appendices: vocabulary, informants, motifs and...  Read More >>

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This book addresses the rise of English as the most widely adopted language in art history and the unintended, long-term...  Read More >>

This book addresses the three fundamental properties of V-V resultative constructions in Mandarin Chinese: their...  Read More >>