Historical Linguistics

Lyle Campbell presents an accessible, hands-on introduction to historical linguistics. The fourth edition has a lucid and engaging style, expert gu...

Reducere. Historical linguistic theory and practice contains a great number of different 'layers' which have been accepted in the course of time and have acq...

Reducere. DescriptionAll languages change, just as other aspects of human society are constantly changing. This book is an introduction to the concepts and t...

This workbook guides students through 12 problems on the establishment of genetic relationship among languages, 24 problems on sound change, 35 pro...

This latest collection of Peter Trudgill's most seminal articles brings together his writing on the sociolinguistic aspects of historical linguisti...

A hands-on approach to historical linguistics, working through 101 problems in five different categories.This book offers a hands-on approach to hi...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Larry (University of Sussex, UK) TraskIllustration(s): 32 Line drawings, black and white; 78 Tables, blac...

Reducere. DescriptionPor primera vez un volumen re ne la historia de Espa a escrita por Arturo P rez-Reverte durante m s de cuatro a os en su columna Patente...

Reducere. A language resource consisting of one or several dictionaries is called a lexical resource. A lexical database is a lexical resource containing an ...

Reducere. Why does language change? Why can we speak to and understand our parents but have trouble reading Shakespeare? Why is Chaucer's English of the four...

Reducere. David, the last of Rosa's five sons, was born with Down syndrome. Unable to care for himself, he and the indomitable Rosa were to be forever bound ...

This guide gives students a solid grounding in the basic methodology of how to analyse corpus data to study new words entering the language or lang...

Reducere. Historic Glacier National Park captures the most interesting moments in the park's history, the slices of life in northwestern Montana that provide...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Don RingeNumber of pages: 224Collection: Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - AdvancedPubl...

"Because of their relative stability, streets offer an incomparable framework for looking at the urban past and comparing it to the present, " writ...

Reducere. Dayton's was in its prime, the new Nicollet Mall was full of people, the Foshay Tower was still king, and the IDS Center was beginning its rise. Bu...

Reducere. From 21A, the one-man show that launched a career and a whole new perspective on riding the bus, to a sneak peek at the new Minnesota Public Radio-...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this poignant collection of oral histories, four Indian elders recount their life stories in their own quiet but uncompromising words...

Locating the subjunctive at the interface of mood and modality, this book presents a systematic description of the use of the English subjunctive i...

DescriptionNew technologies have radically transformed our relationship to information in general and to little bits of information in particular. ...

Reducere. AwardsNortheastern Minnesota Book AwardDescriptionThe topics of the day fly fast and furious over Jim Northrup's moccasin telegraph: The game warde...

This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Romantic Art and Architecture contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography...

Reducere. DescriptionThe American Indian Movement burst onto the scene in the late 1960s as indigenous people across the country began to demand what is righ...

Kitchens serve as more than a place to prepare food; they are cornerstones of the home and family. Just as memories are passed down through stories...

Reducere. Few thoroughfares offer as rich a history as Louisiana's River Road between New Orleans and Baton Rouge. In this third edition of her extremely pop...

DescriptionThe discovery of sound laws by comparing attested languages is the method which has unlocked the history of European languages stretchin...

Interpreting Difficult History at Museums and Historic Sites is framed by educational psychoanalytic theory and positions museum workers, public hi...

Reducere. The Commentaries on the Gallic War is Julius Caesar's firsthand account of the Gallic Wars, written as a third-person narrative. In it Caesar descr...

Reducere. While a historian stands firmly planted in the present and looks back into the past, a historical novelist has a more immediate task: to set reader...

Reducere. Todos odiamos los libros de texto que comienzan con "Hola, c mo te llamas?", no es cierto? El misterio de Nils es una historia cont nua que comienz...