Historical & Comparative

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556714139Author Daniel KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Summer Institute of Linguistics, Academic PublicationsPublisher Summer Institute of...

This basic introduction to Old English is an essential guide for students with little or no linguistic knowledge. Unlike other textbooks on the subject, Beginning Old English focuses on the explanation and demonstration of how the language works, using...

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A comprehensive yet concise history of the English language, this accessible textbook helps those studying the subject to understand the formation of English. It tells the story of the language from its remote ancestry to the present day, especially the...

A comprehensive yet concise history of the English language, this accessible textbook helps those studying the subject to understand the formation of English. It tells the story of the language from its remote ancestry to the present day, especially the...

An entertaining tour of Old English words for animals, from the author of The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old EnglishMany of the animals we encounter in everyday life, from pets and farm animals to the wild creatures of field and forest, have remained the...

In this collection of innovative and original articles, an international team of scholars demonstrate the newest technological trends and data-intensive technologies in the empirical study of English linguistics. Through a range of in-depth case studies,...

M?ori oral tradition is the rich, poetic record of the past handed down by voice over generations through whakapapa, whakatauk?, k?rero and waiata. In genealogies and sayings, histories, stories and songs, M?ori tell of 'te ao tawhito' or the old world:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783944312569Author David M GoldsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Hempen VerlagPublisher Hempen VerlagWeight(grams) 1646g

Half a century ago, Noam Chomsky posited that humans have specific innate mental abilities to learn and use language, distinct from other animals. This book, a follow-up to the author's previous textbook, A Mind for Language, continues to critically...

Half a century ago, Noam Chomsky posited that humans have specific innate mental abilities to learn and use language, distinct from other animals. This book, a follow-up to the author's previous textbook, A Mind for Language, continues to critically...

This book offers the first book-length treatment of the diachronic study of English exclamatives, tracing their development from 1500 through to the twenty-first century.The volume shines a light on independent wh-exclamatives in the history of English...

Yiddish arrived in America as the mother tongue of millions of Jewish immigrants from eastern Europe. Gradually it infiltrated the majority language and ""Jewish English"" was created, with words such as ""kosher"" and ""chutzpah."" Yiddish had first...

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The contents of the future are the contents of a cloud.So begins translator David Larsen’s introduction for the Book of Rain, the earliest known catalogue of Arabic weather-words, by early Arabic linguist Abū Zayd al-Anṣārī. In Larsen’s translation, Abū...

This textbook investigates how cultural practices shape language and, conversely, how language reflects cultural norms and societal structures. It addresses the evolution and functions of language, examines the role of language within diverse...

An entertaining tour of Old English words for animals, from the author of The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old EnglishMany of the animals we encounter in everyday life, from pets and farm animals to the wild creatures of field and forest, have remained the...

This concise bibliography on South-African Languages and Linguistics was compiled on the occasion of the 20th International Congress of Linguists in Cape Town, South Africa, July 2018. The selection of titles is drawn from the Linguistic Bibliography and...

This volume gathers nine contributions dealing with Aorists and Perfects. Drinka challenges the notion of Aoristic Drift in Romance languages. Walker considers two emergent uses of the Perfect in British English. Jara seeks to determine the constraints...

The present volume, edited by Patricia Salazar-Campillo and Victòria Codina-Espurz, is a timely contribution to the field of interlanguage pragmatics. The nine chapters presented here expand the scope of research to date by including different contexts...

As its title suggests, this book is a selection of papers that use English corpora to study language variation along three dimensions – time, place and genre. In broad terms, the book aims to bridge the gap between corpus linguistics and sociolinguistics...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789042025752Author Erika LangbroekFormat PaperbackPage Count 341Imprint Editions Rodopi B.V.Publisher BrillWeight(grams) 590g

You are invited to join a fascinating journey of discovery, as Marcia Birken and Anne C. Coon explore the intersecting patterns of mathematics and poetry — bringing the two fields together in a new way. Setting the tone with humor and illustrating each...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789042016972Author Erika LangbroekFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Editions Rodopi B.V.Publisher BrillWeight(grams) 495g

The development of the prosodic system from Indo-European to Balto-Slavic is dominated by two major innovations: the rise of mobility and the rise of acuteness. This book provides a new account of the latter. It stands out from previous works for being...

In Tense and Text in Classical Arabic, Michal Marmorstein presents a new discourse-oriented analysis of the indicative tense system in Classical Arabic. Critical of commonly held assumptions regarding the binary structure of the tense system and the...

The authors consider new views of the classical versus vernacular dichotomy that are especially central to the new historiography of China and East Asian languages. Based on recent debates initiated by Sheldon Pollock’s findings for South Asia, we...

This book is a comprehensive study of the Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic. It includes an investigation of all Germanic words that were borrowed into Proto-Slavic until its disintegration in the early ninth century. Research into the phonology,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789042034136Author Erika LangbroekFormat PaperbackPage Count 315Imprint Editions Rodopi B.V.Publisher BrillWeight(grams) 544g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789042029330Author Erika LangbroekFormat PaperbackPage Count 321Imprint Editions Rodopi B.V.Publisher BrillWeight(grams) 526g

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As an intriguing but little understood language group within the Tibeto-Burman family, Qiangic languages are widely reported to have evidentiality, the grammatical means of expressing information source. How does this category function in this language...

This book presents Lars Johanson’s Code-Copying Model, an integrated framework for the description of contact-induced processes. The model covers all the main contact linguistic issues in their synchronic and diachronic interrelationship. The terminology...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606180020Author Paul BotleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint American Philosophical Society PressPublisher American Philosophical Society Press

The second edition of the definitive reference on contact studies and linguistic change—provides extensive new research and original case studies Language contact is a dynamic area of contemporary linguistic research that studies how language changes...

Tracing the Journey of Global Languages Patrick Foote’s Immigrant Tongues is the ultimate language history book, blending stories of migration, culture, and evolution to uncover how languages have shaped our world. Perfect for fans of linguistics gifts...

Combining Forms (CFs) are a major morphological phenomenon in Modern English, yet while they have been discussed in some morphological literature, no full-length study has been devoted to this topic so far. This pioneering book addresses that gap by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783796551833Author Emmanuel DuprazFormat HardbackPage Count 500Imprint Schwabe VerlagPublisher Schwabe VerlagWeight(grams) 535g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783943955729Author Widmaier VerlagFormat HardbackPage Count 316Imprint Widmaier VerlagPublisher Widmaier VerlagWeight(grams) 757g