Historical & comparative linguistics books

As the first volume of a two-volume set that reexamines nouns and verbs in Chinese, this book proposes the verbs-as-nouns...  Read More >>

"Ever wondered how the phrase ""pull a Houdini"" found its way into our lexicon and what it reveals about the art...  Read More >>

A new overview of Roman declamation, one of the least studied but most important genres of ancient literature. Letano...  Read More >>

Every effort is made to make the book easily understandable. Rigi Etymology bears no resemblance to any other English...  Read More >>

Exploring not only what Utah English is but also what it isn’t.  Read More >>

Basics of Biblical Aramaic provides students familiar with Hebrew a complete introduction to biblical Aramaic. Miles...  Read More >>

Public debate was overshadowed by the slavery controversy during the period of the US Civil War. Slavery was attacked,...  Read More >>

The volume explores clause-linkage strategies from a cross-linguistic perspective with an emphasis on asyndetic...  Read More >>

This book provides a new account of the rise of Balto-Slavic acuteness from an Indo-European perspective. It is...  Read More >>

In this volume, cases of metaphorical language use in Ancient Greek from the domains of temperature, weight and...  Read More >>

This volume studies the ways in which modernity has been conceived, practiced, and performed in Indian literatures...  Read More >>

Translation for the theatre is often considered to hold a marginal status between literary translation and adaptation...  Read More >>

Focusing on /str/-retraction, this pioneering book uses a combination of phonological and sociolinguistic theories...  Read More >>

This book charts the trajectory of Heidegger’s concept of silence by focusing on its relation to truth as the unconcealedness...  Read More >>

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Das Bayerische W�rterbuch f�hrt - nach den Grunds�tzen moderner Lexikographie und auf ungleich gr��erer Materialbasis...  Read More >>

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This Element documents the evolution of a research program that began in the early 1960s with the author's first...  Read More >>

The most detailed and comprehensive study to date of early Latin language, literary and non-literary, featuring...  Read More >>

Nese is a dying Oceanic language spoken on the island of Malekula, in northern Vanuatu. This book, based on first-hand...  Read More >>

To give Westbury the attention it deserves requires a book that is history, fiction, memoir, poetry, and photographs....  Read More >>

"This is the first book-length palaeographic study of about a thousand fragments in Syriac and Sogdian languages...  Read More >>