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Martin E Huld
Naming the Horse

In Naming the Horse, author Martin E. Huld explains the basis of linguistic palaeontology, the reconstruction and analysis of past cultures through the words such cultures used to describe and define the …

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The Oxford Guide to the Bantu Languages

This volume brings together leading scholars from Africa, Europe, the Americas and beyond to provide a detailed account of the languages of the Bantu family, which cover an area from Cameroon and Kenya in…

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Simon Horobin
Chaucer's Language

Introduces students to Chaucer's language and the importance of reading Chaucer in the original, rather than in a modern translation.

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Gaston Dorren
The World Atlas of Language

A fascinating visual exploration of all things linguistic, tracing how words, sounds, scripts, norms, and borders are in constant fluxDid you know that more than 7,000 languages are spoken today, but that…

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Ben Schott
Schott's Significa

The perfect gift for word lovers, trivia fanatics, and the culturally curious. From the author of the international bestseller Schott's Original Miscellany comes a visually rich book that breaks down the …

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Ben Yagoda
Gobsmacked!

A spot-on guide to how and why Americans have become so bloody keen on Britishisms---for good or illThe British love to complain that words and phrases imported from America---from French fries to Awesome…

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Manchán Magan
Thirty-Two Words for Field

NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER"What a joyful, profound, passionate revelry of a book this is--an illumination of how words make worlds; a reminder of what is lost when a language is lost; an act of salvag…

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The Oxford Handbook of Dravidian Languages

The Dravidian languages of south India, spoken by approximately 222 million speakers across South Asia, form one of the largest language families in the world. First recognized as a distinct group in the …

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The Oxford Handbook of Archaeology and Language

This volume provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of how archaeology, genes, and language can be combined to shed light on the human past. It illustrates the extent to which linguistic, archaeo…

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African Englishes and Multilingualism for the Transformative Development of Postcolonial Africa

**This open access edited volume brings together a team of linguists to explore how indigenized varieties of English and multilingualism interact with the holistic transformation of Africa.**Contributors …

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Bernard Mees
King Arthur and the Languages of Britain

Medievalists have denied the historical existence of King Arthur for over 50 years . Arthur and the Languages of Britain demonstrates how linguistic evidence can be employed to see if the earliest histori…

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Rodney Ast, Roger S Bagnall, Clementina Caputo, Roberta Casagrande-Kim
Ostraka from Trimithis, Volume 3

Ostraka from Trimithis, Volume 3 presents 232 new or re-edited texts from the excavations conducted at the site of Amheida (Trimithis in the Roman period and Setwah in earlier times). In addition to the G…

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Shawn M Bullock, Cécile Bullock
Historical Perspectives on Multilingual Education

In a linguistic and cultural landscape that has become more diversified, it has become more and more challenging for politicians, policymakers, researchers, as well as teachers, to deal with the increasin…

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Jennifer Manoukian
Purist Pursuits

Purist Pursuits chronicles how and why Armenians in the Ottoman Empire fashioned a new language called Western Armenian. Tracing its rise from the eighteenth to the early-twentieth centuries, Jennifer Man…

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Futures of the past : The diachrony of future constructions across languages

Advances in Historical Linguistics

Thinking of and talking about future events is a crucial part of our everyday lives. Thus, it is not surprising that in the languages of the world, a variety of markers for future time reference has devel…

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Dekuan Huang,
Chinese Paleography

This book offers an introduction to ancient Chinese characters, addressing the origin and development of ancient writing, the theoretical method of learning ancient Chinese characters, evolution of ancien…

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Kirsty King
The Language of Lies

How can you tell if someone is lying to you? Is it possible to separate the truth from lies in what people say? And when should you trust what you hear?Everyone lies. We lie to our family, friends, collea…

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Deadjectival verb formation in Indo-European and beyond

Advances in Historical Linguistics 5

The lexicalization of property concepts (PCs) - basic adjectival states such as big, small, hard, soft, black, white, fast, quick - has long been a central concern of both typology and linguistic theory. …

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Ben Schott
Schott's Significa

SCHOTT IS BACK - and better than ever.From the mind behind the million-copy bestseller Schott's Original Miscellany comes an indispensable field guide to the hidden lore and secret languages of our modern…

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Marco Wiemann
Tracing the history of pronunciation in nineteenth-century English

Advances in Historical Linguistics 4

A key challenge of studying the historical phonology of any language is how to reconstruct the pronunciation of periods before the availability of sound recording. Many studies of pre-twentieth-century pr…

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