Historical & comparative linguistics books

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Romanian Folklore and its Archaic Heritage: A cultural and Linguistic Comparative Study

Romanian Folklore and its Archaic Heritage: A cultural...

Author: Ana R. Chelariu
ISBN: 9783031040535
Format: Paperback
$284.60

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Indexicality: The Role of Indexing in Language Structure and Language Change

Indexicality: The Role of Indexing in Language Structure...

Author: Peter Juul Nielsen ,  María Sol Sansiñena
ISBN: 9783110791174
Format: Hardback
$335.25

The book offers the first full-scale focused treatment of linguistic indexicality as a tool for analysis and explanation...  Read More >>

Language, Society and the State in a Changing World

Language, Society and the State in a Changing World...

Author: Stanley D. Brunn ,  Roland Kehrein
ISBN: 9783031181481
Format: Paperback
$284.60

Through including authors from nine different countries, who are writing about issuesin twelve countries and their...  Read More >>

The Colloquia of the Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana: Volume 1, Colloquia Monacensia-Einsidlensia, Leidense-Stephani, and Stephani

The Colloquia of the Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana:...

Author: Eleanor Dickey (University of Exeter)
ISBN: 9781009491013
Format: Paperback
$103.47

Colloquia are manuals designed to help ancient Greeks and Romans get around in each other's languages. In describing...  Read More >>

Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues

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

Author: Ross Perlin
ISBN: 9781804710715
Format: Paperback
$27.99

A captivating portrait of contemporary New York City, the most linguistically diverse place ever to have existed...  Read More >>

English and Korean in Contrast: A Linguistic Introduction

English and Korean in Contrast: A Linguistic Introduction...

Author: Jong-Bok Kim
ISBN: 9781394157372
Format: Paperback
$74.95

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Language and Legal Judgments: Evaluation and Argument in Judicial Discourse

Language and Legal Judgments: Evaluation and Argument...

Author: Stanisław Goźdź-Roszkowski
ISBN: 9781032366906
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Integrating research methods from Linguistics with contemporary Legal Argumentation Theory, this book highlights...  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: 9781531503338
Format: Hardback
$257.99

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

Avestan Manual. a Handbook for Teaching and Self-Learning

Avestan Manual. a Handbook for Teaching and Self-Learning...

Author: Alberto Cantera ,  Celine Redard
ISBN: 9783447120920
Format: Paperback
$258.72

Avestan is the sacred language of the Zoroastrians in which they perform most of their rituals. It is known only...  Read More >>

Words from the Heart: An Emotional Dictionary

Words from the Heart: An Emotional Dictionary

Author: Susie Dent
ISBN: 9781529379686
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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Time and Language: New Sinology and Chinese History

Time and Language: New Sinology and Chinese History...

Author: Ori Sela ,  Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
ISBN: 9780824895099
Format: Paperback
$73.92

Presenting a host of in-depth case studies, Time and Language: New Sinology and Chinese History argues for and demonstrates...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Anthology of British Medieval Latin: Volume 2, 1066–1500

The Cambridge Anthology of British Medieval Latin: Volume...

Author: Carolinne White (University of Oxford) ,  Catherine Conybeare (Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9781107186576
Format: Hardback
$258.75

This anthology presents in two volumes a series of Latin texts (with English translation) produced in Britain during...  Read More >>

Methods in Historical Corpus Pragmatics: Epistemic Stance in Early Modern English

Methods in Historical Corpus Pragmatics: Epistemic Stance...

Author: Daniela Landert (Universität Heidelberg)
ISBN: 9781009237413
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Drawing on an extensive corpus-based study, this book explores theoretical and empirical discussions of stance research...  Read More >>

Introducing the History of the English Language

Introducing the History of the English Language

Author: Seth Lerer
ISBN: 9781032129693
Format: Paperback
$75.99

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The Coherence of Linguistic Communities: Orderly Heterogeneity and Social Meaning

The Coherence of Linguistic Communities: Orderly Heterogeneity...

Author: Karen V. Beaman (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany) ,  Gregory R. Guy
ISBN: 9780367681838
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This innovative collection brings together a range of perspectives on the notions of ‘orderly heterogeneity’ and...  Read More >>

Arabic Writing in the Digital Age: Towards a Theoretical Framework

Arabic Writing in the Digital Age: Towards a Theoretical...

Author: Saussan Khalil
ISBN: 9780367490706
Format: Paperback
$83.99

The written and spoken forms of Arabic have been traditionally viewed as separate forms of the language that rarely...  Read More >>

Government Translation in South Korea: A Corpus-based Study

Government Translation in South Korea: A Corpus-based...

Author: Jinsil Choi
ISBN: 9781032233451
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This is the first book to investigate and discuss translation processes and translation products in South Korean...  Read More >>

The Register-Functional Approach to Grammatical Complexity: Theoretical Foundation, Descriptive Research Findings, Application

The Register-Functional Approach to Grammatical Complexity:...

Author: Douglas Biber ,  Bethany Gray
ISBN: 9781032138916
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This collection brings together the editors’ previous research with new work on the Register-Functional (RF) approach...  Read More >>

English in China: Creativity and Commodification

English in China: Creativity and Commodification

Author: Songqing Li (Associate Professor, Department of English, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China)
ISBN: 9781032273426
Format: Paperback
$83.99

English-related linguistic creativity and language commodification are a constant topic of interest and analysis...  Read More >>

Urban Contact Dialects and Language Change: Insights from the Global North and South

Urban Contact Dialects and Language Change: Insights...

Author: Paul Kerswill ,  Heike Wiese
ISBN: 9781032222080
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This volume provides a systematic comparative treatment of urban contact dialects in the global North and South,...  Read More >>

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