Historical & comparative linguistics books

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A Winning Dialect: Reinventing Linguistic Tradition in Rural Norway

A Winning Dialect: Reinventing Linguistic Tradition...

Author: Thea R. Strand
ISBN: 9781487545963
Format: Paperback
$49.14

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Urdu Zaban ka Taarikhi Tanazur: (Essays)

Urdu Zaban ka Taarikhi Tanazur: (Essays)

Author: Mirza Khaleel Ahmed Baig
ISBN: 9789358725964
Format: Paperback
$60.69

This book is an assortment of a few literary pieces authored by Mirza Khaleel Ahmed Baig regarding the topics of...  Read More >>

Urdu Tahriik: (Essays)

Urdu Tahriik: (Essays)

Author: Dr Mohd Shareef Nizami
ISBN: 9789358724097
Format: Paperback
$60.69

This book contains three important essays about the development and promotion of the Urdu language. This book addresses...  Read More >>

The Old Words of Herefordshire

The Old Words of Herefordshire

Author: Richard Wheeler
ISBN: 9781910839768
Format: Hardback
$33.61

This collection of 3,000 Herefordshire words and phrases draws on a number of nineteenth- and twentieth-century...  Read More >>

Diccionario Etimol�gico E Hist�rico de Los Prefijos de la Lengua Espa�ola

Diccionario Etimol�gico E Hist�rico de Los Prefijos...

Author: David Pharies ,  Erica Fischer-Dorantes
ISBN: 9783111329291
Format: Hardback
$348.45

As a complement to Pharies's 2002 Diccionario etimol�gico de los sufijos espa�oles (Madrid: Gredos), this book completes...  Read More >>

On the Role of Contrast in Information Structure

On the Role of Contrast in Information Structure

Author: Jorina Brysbaert ,  Karen Lahousse
ISBN: 9783110997897
Format: Hardback
$369.57

This volume discusses the role of contrast within the conceptual framework of Information Structure. It provides...  Read More >>

Origin Uncertain: Unraveling the Mysteries of Etymology

Origin Uncertain: Unraveling the Mysteries of Etymology...

Author: Anatoly Liberman (Professor, Professor, University of Minnesota)
ISBN: 9780197664919
Format: Hardback
$52.95

"Lost origins of words revealed. We like to recount that goodbye started out as ""god be with you,"" that whiskey...  Read More >>

The Social Life of Appalachian Englishes: A Sociolinguistic Introduction

The Social Life of Appalachian Englishes: A Sociolinguistic...

Author: Jennifer Cramer ,  Allison Burkette
ISBN: 9781032224886
Format: Paperback
$75.99

Appalachian Englishes (AEs) have a long history of representation in linguistic literature, but until now no single...  Read More >>

Speak American? Govorite li Američki?

Speak American? Govorite li Američki?

Author: Aleksandar D Stajkovic ,  Kayla S Stajkovic
ISBN: 9781733827522
Format: Paperback
$65.87

'Speak American? Govorite li Američki?' je vas vodič za savladavanje 101 Američkog idioma. Sa jasnim definicijama,...  Read More >>

The Social Life of Appalachian Englishes: A Sociolinguistic Introduction

The Social Life of Appalachian Englishes: A Sociolinguistic...

Author: Jennifer Cramer ,  Allison Burkette
ISBN: 9781032727783
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Appalachian Englishes (AEs) have a long history of representation in linguistic literature, but until now no single...  Read More >>

Language Change in Real- and Apparent-Time: Coherence in the Individual and the Community

Language Change in Real- and Apparent-Time: Coherence...

Author: Karen V. Beaman (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany)
ISBN: 9781032212166
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This volume explores the use of the Swabian dialect in southwestern Germany. This book will be of interest to students...  Read More >>

English Gypsies and Their Language

English Gypsies and Their Language

Author: Charles Godfrey Leland
ISBN: 9781396325281
Format: Paperback
$73.89

English Gypsies and Their Language is a crucial work for linguists, anthropologists, and anyone interested in the...  Read More >>

Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York

Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother...

Author: Ross Perlin ,  Ross Perlin
ISBN: 9798874764609
Format: Audio
$190.05

"Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century and when they're gone, it will be forever....  Read More >>

Descriptive Grammar and Diachrony of Kurima: A Minority South Ryukyuan Language of the Miyako Islands

Descriptive Grammar and Diachrony of Kurima: A Minority...

Author: Aleksandra Jarosz
ISBN: 9789004680531
Format: Hardback
$551.76

A comprehensive descriptive grammar of a moribund insular variety of Miyako-Ryukyuan, rich in noteworthy typological...  Read More >>

Satzinterne Gro�schreibung in Hexenverh�rprotokollen Der Fr�hen Neuzeit

Satzinterne Gro�schreibung in Hexenverh�rprotokollen...

Author: Lisa D�cker
ISBN: 9783111388977
Format: Hardback
$348.45

This monograph analyzes mid-sentence capitalization in German witch interrogation transcripts from the sixteenth...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Southeast Asian Englishes

The Oxford Handbook of Southeast Asian Englishes

Author: Andrew J. Moody (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of MacauProfessor of English, University of Macau)
ISBN: 9780192855282
Format: Hardback
$318.00

This volume describes both the history and the contemporary forms, functions, and status of English in Southeast...  Read More >>

New Horizons in Prescriptivism Research

New Horizons in Prescriptivism Research

Author: Nuria Yáñez‐Bouza ,  María E. Rodríguez‐Gil
ISBN: 9781800416147
Format: Hardback
$310.37

The chapters in this book address three main strands in ongoing scholarly work on prescriptivism: language, literary...  Read More >>

Historische Lexikalische Semantik Und Linked Data: Modellierung Von Ressourcen Der Mittelalterlichen Galloromania F�r Das Semantic Web

Historische Lexikalische Semantik Und Linked Data: Modellierung...

Author: Sabine Tittel
ISBN: 9783111326344
Format: Hardback
$406.53

At the intersection between the semantic web and historical linguistics, this study focuses on lexical semantics...  Read More >>

Urdu - Rasm-ul-khat aur Farogh

Urdu - Rasm-ul-khat aur Farogh

Author: Aijaz Ubaid
ISBN: 9789358724455
Format: Paperback
$58.05

This book covers a variety of subjects, including the distinction between Urdu and Hindi Devanagari script, the...  Read More >>

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