Historical & comparative linguistics books

A detailed and comprehensive documentation of the linguistic presence of Portuguese loanwords in African languages....  Read More >>

"""A history and celebration of the many far-flung volunteers who helped define the English language, word by word.""--Provided...  Read More >>

This book traces the origin and evolvement of two Chinese characters “wenxue”(literature) by using the methods of...  Read More >>

This book provides a thorough yet approachable history of the Scots language, a close relative of Standard English....  Read More >>

This book provides a thorough yet approachable history of the Scots language, a close relative of Standard English....  Read More >>

Based on a rich range of contemporary sources, this insightful and practical book provides a comprehensive description...  Read More >>

This volume brings together several contributions from linguistics, literary studies, rhetoric, psychology and theology,...  Read More >>

"Why do we love to swear so much? Why do we get so offended when others do it? In this lively and amusing exploration...  Read More >>

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The book addresses some raging questions in linguistics today: What kind of variation do typologically related languages...  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 >>

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"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 >>

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

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

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

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

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

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