Historical & Comparative

English is one of the most widely-spoken languages in the world, with native-speaking communities at the furthest ends of the earth. However, just three thousand years ago, the language-which-became-English was not spoken anywhere in Britain. Trudgill,...

Word Origins is the only guide to the science and process of etymology for the layperson. This funny, charming, and conversational book not only tells the known origins of hundreds of words, but also shows how their origins were determined. Liberman, an...

This general introduction to the study of the Chinese language traces its history from its beginings in the second millennium BC to the present day and provides a clear picture of the contemporary language and its sociolinguistic status. Chinese in its...

For anyone who has ever wondered why English is so weird, an entertaining and expert tour of the most puzzling parts of our language. Maybe you've been speaking English all your life, or maybe you learned it later on. But whether you use it just well...

What are place names? From where do they originate? How are they structured? What do they signify? How important are they in our life? This groundbreaking book explores these compelling questions and more by providing a thorough introduction to the...

Maybe you've been speaking English all your life, or maybe you learned it later on. But whether you use it just well enough to get your daily business done, or you're an expert with a red pen who never omits a comma or misplaces a modifier, you must have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447114592Author Joanna Popielska-GrzybowskaFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 1474gDimensions(mm)...

Changing English examines the history of English from its origins in the fifth century to the present day. It focuses on the radical changes that have taken place in the structure of English over a millennium and a half, detailing the influences of...

It is tempting to take the tremendous rate of contemporary linguistic change for granted. What is required, in fact, is a radical reinterpretation of what language is. Steven Roger Fischer charts the history of language from the times of Homo erectus,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780971385849Author S M NewtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Michael NewtonPublisher Michael Newton

Like Carl Darling Buck's Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin (1933), this book is an explanation of the similarities and differences between Greek and Latin morphology and lexicon through an account of their prehistory. It also aims to discuss the...

This book examines the impact of ancient DNA research and scientific evidence on our understanding of the emergence of Indo-European languages in prehistory. Offering cutting-edge contributions from an international team of scholars, it considers the...

Francis W. Kelsey was Professor of Latin at the University of Michigan from 1889 until his death in 1927. His popular school commentary on Caesar's Gallic War appeared in twenty-one editions in his lifetime. The expanded edition revised and reprinted...

Not a how-to text, this beguiling book is instead a fascinating look at Chinese language and culture. Ranging through history, literature, folklore, linguistics, and sociology, this is a breezy, straightforward primer of surprising breadth.About the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614270720Author Benjamin Lee WhorfFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Martino Fine BooksPublisher Martino Fine BooksWeight(grams) 435gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999855789Author Charlton T LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 1192Imprint Nigel GourlayPublisher Nigel GourlayWeight(grams) 2785g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993180842Author Phil WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Rumian PublishingPublisher Rumian PublishingWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Greek: A History of the Language and its Speakers, Second Edition reveals the trajectory of the Greek language from the Mycenaean period of the second millennium BC to the current day. Offers a complete linguistic treatment of the history of the Greek...

Spoken by eighty million people in South Asia and a diaspora that stretches across the globe, Tamil is one of the great world languages, and one of the few ancient languages that survives as a mother tongue for so many speakers. David Shulman presents a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780899576657Author S. ZodhiatesFormat HardbackPage Count 2608Imprint AMG PublishersPublisher AMG PublishersWeight(grams) 1769g

An optimistic and nuanced portrait of a generation that has much to teach us about how to live and collaborate in our digital world. Born since the mid-1990s, members of Generation Z comprise the first generation never to know the world without the...

Language in all its modes-oral, written, print, electronic-claims the central role in Walter J. Ong's acclaimed speculations on human culture. After his death, his archives were found to contain unpublished drafts of a final book manuscript that Ong...

The study of English language and literature in Britain changed dramatically between the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. From Philology to English Studies explores the contribution of philology to this movement. Haruko...

This is the first full account of the transformation of Ottoman Turkish into Modern Turkish. It is based on the author's knowledge and experience of the language, history, and people of Turkey. The transformation of the Turkish language is probably the...

Language is a wild animal: rough, ambiguous, inconsistent in countless ways. But that just makes it all the more tempting to tame it. Many have tried, from sticklers for supposedly correct grammar to inventors of supposedly perfect languages; from...

Chatbots are sure to have a significant impact on the way we read, write and think. For better or worse, they are being used to find information, influence public opinion, diagnose illness and shape political discussion online. How did we get to this...

Three centuries of English idioms-their unusual origins and unexpected interpretationsTo pay through the nose. Raining cats and dogs. By hook or by crook. Curry favor. Drink like a fish. Eat crow. We hear such phrases every day, but this book is the...

This volume offers new perspectives on the tension between the rich patterns of language variation that emerge from comparative studies and the quest for simple theoretical primitives. The chapters explore the debate between Cartography and Minimalism:...

A BRIEF HISTORY OF Ancient Greek Attested since the fourteenth century BC, and still spoken today by over 10 million people, Greek has been one of the most influential languages in human history. English, Spanish, French, Russian, and Arabic are among...

Successful word-coinages -- those that stay in currency for a good long time -- tend to conceal their beginnings. We take them at face value and rarely when and where they were first minted. Engaging, illuminating, and authoritative, Ralph Keyes's The...

This book examines the grammatical changes that took place in the transition from Latin to the Romance languages. The emerging languages underwent changes in three fundamental areas involving the noun phrase, verb phrase, and the sentence. The impact of...

The abundant Roman inscriptions to be found in British museums tell us much about the everyday life of the inhabitants of Roman Britain - about their hopes and fears, their work and their beliefs. Nor is a fluent command of Latin essential for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592408986Author Christopher J. MooreFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Gotham BooksPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 198mm *...

'His cornucopia of tellers and tales is a delight, a riveting celebration of a genre that revels in its own hybridity and the imaginative riches produced by the crossing of cultural and literary borders' Financial Times'Like a child after the Pied Piper...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621387602Author Leo SpitzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

The Translation Studies Reader provides a definitive survey of the most important and influential developments in translation theory and research, with an emphasis on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The introductory essays prefacing each...

An exhilarating new account of the English language, from British colonialism to the age of social media, emphasizing dynamism and democratization Whose language is English? Although we often think of it as native to one place, today there are many...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592407200Author John McWhorterFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Gotham BooksPublisher Gotham BooksWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 133mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999548622Author Peggy DulyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Exploration PressPublisher Exploration PressWeight(grams) 531gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

'The Western Classical Tradition in Linguistics' extends from Ancient Greece to the 21st century and has spread from Europe to the other four inhabited continents. It is a story of successive stages of language study, each building upon, or reacting...