Historical & comparative linguistics books

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Lost Languages - The Romance and Tragedy of Forgotten Tongues

Lost Languages - The Romance and Tragedy of Forgotten...

Author: Viruti Shivan
ISBN: 9798224669806
Format: Paperback
$50.13

"Unveiling the Mysteries of Vanished Voices and Cultures In ""Lost Languages: The Romance and Tragedy of Forgotten...  Read More >>

A Winning Dialect: Reinventing Linguistic Tradition in Rural Norway

A Winning Dialect: Reinventing Linguistic Tradition...

Author: Thea R. Strand
ISBN: 9781487545956
Format: Hardback
$134.55

A Winning Dialect tells the story of linguistic and cultural change in rural Norway over the last two decades.  Read More >>

Tempus: The World of Discussion and the World of Narration

Tempus: The World of Discussion and the World of Narration...

Author: Herald Weinrich ,  Jane K. Brown
ISBN: 9781531503345
Format: Paperback
$68.99

Tempus studies tense uses, ancient and modern, in great literature and everyday life and in all the major languages...  Read More >>

Word Art + Gesture Art = Tone Art: The Relationship Between the Vocal and the Instrumental in Different Arts

Word Art + Gesture Art = Tone Art: The Relationship...

Author: Hanns-Werner Heister ,  Hanjo Polk
ISBN: 9783031201110
Format: Paperback
$475.17

This book offers a truly interdisciplinary discussion on the relationship between the vocal and the instrumental...  Read More >>

Studies on Chinese Discourse Grammar

Studies on Chinese Discourse Grammar

Author: FANG Mei
ISBN: 9781032589244
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book extends the traditional research perspective of single sentences and contexts to the textual structure...  Read More >>

The Language Puzzle: How We Talked Our Way Out of the Stone Age

The Language Puzzle: How We Talked Our Way Out of the...

Author: Steven Mithen
ISBN: 9781800811584
Format: Hardback
$55.00

A groundbreaking new account of prehistory from one of the most esteemed archaeologists working today  Read More >>

Writing Early China

Writing Early China

Author: Edward L. Shaughnessy
ISBN: 9781438495217
Format: Paperback
$100.19

Considers what unearthed documents reveal about the creation and transmission of knowledge in ancient China.  Read More >>

The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia: Typology, Morphosyntax and Socio-historical Perspectives

The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia: Typology,...

Author: Edward Vajda
ISBN: 9783111378220
Format: Hardback
$871.20

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Language in Deep Human History: An Evolutionary Story

Language in Deep Human History: An Evolutionary Story...

Author: Richard J. Watts
ISBN: 9783111238272
Format: Hardback
$319.41

To understand the evolution of language in the context of deep human history, interdisciplinary work between linguists...  Read More >>

Communal Dialects in Baghdad

Communal Dialects in Baghdad

Author: Haim Blanc ,  David Blanc
ISBN: 9789004689794
Format: Hardback
$303.60

A revised reprint of the classic study of the communal Arabic dialects of Baghdad (Muslim, Christian, and Jewish)....  Read More >>

Postcolonial Semantics: Meaning and Metalanguage in a Multipolar World

Postcolonial Semantics: Meaning and Metalanguage in...

Author: Carsten Levisen
ISBN: 9783111336909
Format: Hardback
$290.37

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Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don't Rhyme—And Other Oddities of the English Language

Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don't...

Author: Arika Okrent (Linguist and author of In the Land of Invented Languages, Linguist and author of In the Land of Invented Languages) ,  Sean O'Neill
ISBN: 9780197760918
Format: Paperback
$30.95

"For anyone who has ever wondered why English is so weird, an entertaining and expert tour of the most puzzling...  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: 9798874764616
Format: Audio
$131.97

"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 >>

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: 9798874764623
Format: Audio
$121.31

"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 >>

The Origins of Chinese Literary Hermeneutics: A Study of the Shijing and the Mao School of Confucian Exegesis

The Origins of Chinese Literary Hermeneutics: A Study...

Author: Martin Svensson Ekström
ISBN: 9781438495392
Format: Hardback
$261.36

Explores how China’s oldest poetry collection was interpreted in a Confucian exegetical text—the Mao Commentary—in...  Read More >>

Language Change and Linguistic Diversity: Studies in Honour of Lyle Campbell

Language Change and Linguistic Diversity: Studies in...

Author: Thiago Costa Chacon ,  Nala H Lee
ISBN: 9781474488136
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Explores advances in the fields of language documentation, language change and historical linguistics  Read More >>

Definiteness in Balkan Romance

Definiteness in Balkan Romance

Author: Daniela Isac (Associate Professor of Linguistics, Associate Professor of Linguistics, Concordia University)
ISBN: 9780198865704
Format: Hardback
$212.00

This book explores the micro-variation in the realization of definiteness across languages belonging to the Balkan...  Read More >>

Diacron�a de Las Per�frasis Fasales: Origen, Evoluci�n Y Vigencia

Diacron�a de Las Per�frasis Fasales: Origen, Evoluci�n...

Author: Mar Garachana Camarero ,  Esther Artigas �lvarez
ISBN: 9783111340869
Format: Hardback
$290.37

The book provides an overview of the evolution of phasal periphrases from Latin to Spanish, from the perspective...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Pre-Roman Italy (1000--49 BCE)

The Oxford Handbook of Pre-Roman Italy (1000--49 BCE)...

Author: Marco Maiuro (Professor of Roman History, Professor of Roman History, Sapienza, University of Rome) ,  Jane Botsford Johnson (Professional Editor and Translator, Professional Editor and Translator)
ISBN: 9780199987894
Format: Hardback
$333.00

The Oxford Handbook of Pre-Roman Italy gives a comprehensive account of the peoples who lived on the Italian peninsula...  Read More >>

Language and Dialect Death: Theorising Sound Change in Obsolescent Gascon

Language and Dialect Death: Theorising Sound Change...

Author: Damien Mooney
ISBN: 9783031511004
Format: Hardback
$284.60

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Interfaces and Features in Second Language Acquisition: A Study on the Acquisition of Chinese Negation by English Speakers and Korean Speakers

Interfaces and Features in Second Language Acquisition:...

Author: Jia Wang
ISBN: 9789811986314
Format: Paperback
$284.60

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