Historical and comparative linguistics Books
Academica Press The Gift of Tongues: Ecstatic Utterance or
Book SynopsisOf all the theological issues discussed in Christian circles, few have received more attention than the New Testament "gift of tongues." Were the tongues at Corinth "real languages," or something else? Some charismatics and an assortment of sympathetic observers, spurred on by modern linguistic analyses of audio recordings of modern tongues vocalizations, argue that modern tongues and the tongues in Corinth alike are not real languages at all. The questions Bruce Edminster seeks to answer in The Gift of Tongues include whether the Corinthian gift is the same as the one found in the book of Acts, what is the meaning and significance of the word "edification" in the context of the Corinthian phenomenon, and is the gift of tongues "real" language, the language of the angels, or a non-language? Further consideration asks what should the "gift of tongues" should be used for? Evangelism? Personal devotion? Self-gratification?
£96.30
Wipf & Stock Publishers The Lives of the Prophets
£19.33
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PageMaster Publishing 101 English Expressions
£14.79
Lexington Books Everyday Linguistic and Cultural Practices of the
Book SynopsisThe Russian language has evolved into a lingua franca in post-Soviet immigrant communities, prompting an analysis of its use in different domains. Everyday Linguistic and Cultural Practices of the Russophone Diaspora explores the language maintenance of Russian abroad, emphasizing the role of educational ventures and transnational communications facilitated by the internet. This book researches specific aspects of migrant life, including occupational practices, homemaking, family dynamics, cultural engagement, and linguistic hybridity, and makes use of extensive empirical data spanning Soviet, post-Soviet, and non-Soviet migrant generations collected from European, North American, and Asian communities. Relations between different migration waves are not always friendly, but are mediated through online discussion forums, which help to foster mutual understanding. Like all migrants, Russophones seek better opportunities by establishing new homes, revealing intergenerational differences in lifestyle and adaptation. This volume focuses on the emigration waves between 1990 and 2020, and points to shifts in values and migration expectations and reflecting on the evolution of diasporic communities and the dynamic adaptation of the Russian language.
£95.00
Legenda Aspirations to Silence
£105.57
Benediction Classics An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon: Founded Upon the Seventh Edition of Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon
£24.99
Benediction Classics An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon: Founded Upon the Seventh Edition of Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon
£35.38
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Latin in Our Language
£23.51
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Russian Etymological Dictionary
Book SynopsisThis dictionary provides a systematic analysis of Russian word derivations, describing the etymology of 1500 central words in the language. In the introduction, the author traces the development of Russian vocabulary and focuses on factors that have affected semantic and lexical change. In the main part of the book, a typical entry gives the present meaning of the word, the dates of the first appearance in the language and of subsequent meaning changes, and details of orthographical, phonetic and social factors that have affected its development. Cognate words in Russian and other languages help to place each word in its linguistic context. The dictionary is designed to be user-friendly, facilitating the task of learning vocabulary and raising the language awareness of students. It presents an interesting anaylsis of word derivation at the same time as revealing factors that affect lexical development and establishing links with other languages.
£37.99
Old Paths Publications, Inc The Revision Revised: A Refutation of Westcott and Hort's False Greek Text and Theory
£28.00
Brill The Old Japanese Complement System: A Synchronic and Diachronic Study
Book SynopsisThe present study is the first large-scale investigation of the syntax of Old Japanese (mainly eighth-century Japanese). It gives a detailed account of complement clauses and related constructions in Old Japanese, based on an exhaustive investigation of the extant text corpus. The aim is twofold: first, to give a synchronic description of the types of complementation which are found in this period and of the system they are part of. Second, to address the diachronic issues of the origin of the Old Japanese complement system and more widely the pre-history of complementation in Japanese. Janick Wrona’s study will be of interest to historical linguists and Japanologists alike.Table of ContentsList of Tables; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 Nominal Complements and Related Usages of the Nominal Form; 3 Adnominal Complements and Related Usages of the Adnominal Form; 4 To-Complements; 5 Koto-Complements; 6 Other Complement Types; 7 The Old Japanese System of Complementation; 8 From Pre-Old Japanese to Old Japanese; Conclusions; References; Index of Authors; Index of Examples; Index of Subjects
£180.14
Tiger of the Stripe A Comparative Germanic Grammar
£14.00
Akerbeltz Gaelic and English: Their common origins
£12.83
Modern Humanities Research Association 'Diálogo de la lengua'. By Juan de Valdés. A
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£22.52
Punctum Books The Old Nubian Language
£16.50
Punctum Books 'Pataphilology: An Irreader
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£18.27
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp The Complete Pleasury of Word and Phrase Origins
£15.26
Nigel Gourlay A Latin Dictionary
£49.95
BoD - Books on Demand Larménien dAcabi
£20.10
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp ALLO LINGALA n1
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£120.65
De Gruyter Gotisches Elementarbuch
Table of ContentsFrontmatter -- Vorwort -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- Ausgewählte Literatur -- I. Einführung -- II. Lautlehre -- III. Formenlehre -- IV. Textbeispiele -- V. Anhang: kleinere Denkmäler -- VI. Wörterverzeichnis
£25.65
De Gruyter On Comitatives and Related Categories: A Typological Study with Special Focus on the Languages of Europe
Book SynopsisThis is the first book-length functional-typologically inspired crosslinguistic study of comitatives and related categories such as the instrumental. On the basis of data drawn from 400 languages world-wide (covering all major phyla and areas), the authors test and revise a variety of general linguistic hypotheses about the grammar and cognitive foundations of comitatives. Three types of languages are identified according to the morphological treatment of the comitative and its syncretistic association with other concepts. It is shown that the structural behaviour of comitatives is areally biassed and that the languages of Europe tend to diverge from the majority of the world's languages. This has important repercussions for a language-independent definition of the comitative. The supposed conceptual closeness of comitative and instrumental is discussed in some detail and a semantic map of the comitative is put forward. Markedness is the crucial concept for the evaluation of the relation that ties comitatives and instrumentals to each other. In a separate chapter, the diachrony of comitatives is looked into from the perspective of grammaticalisation research. Throughout the book, the argumentation is richly documented by empirical data. The book contains three case-studies of the comitative in Icelandic, Latvian and Maltese - each of which represents one of the three language types identified earlier in the text. For the purpose of comparing the languages of Europe, a chapter is devoted to the analysis of a large parallel literary corpus (covering 64 languages) which reveals that the parameters of genetic affiliation, areal location and typological classification interact in intricate ways when it comes to predicting whether or not two languages of the sample behave similarly as to the use to which they put their comitative morphemes. With a view to determining the degree of similarity between the languages of the European sub-sample, methods of quantitative typology are employed. General linguists with an interest in case, functional typologists, grammaticalisation researchers and experts of markedness issues will value this book as an important contribution to their respective fields of interest. We regret that, due to a PDF problem, the figure on page 111 is partly shown in black. Please find the correct table here.
£185.25
De Gruyter Signifying and Understanding: Reading the Works of Victoria Welby and the Signific Movement
Book SynopsisThe theory of signifying (significs), formulated and introduced by Victoria Welby for the first time in 1890s, is at the basis of much of twentieth-century linguistics, as well as in other language and communication sciences such as sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, translation theory and semiotics. Indirectly, the origins of approaches, methods and categories elaborated by analytical philosophy, Wittgenstein himself, Anglo-American speech act theory, and pragmatics are largely found with Victoria Lady Welby. Indeed, it is no exaggeration to say, in addition, that Welby is the "founding mother" of semiotics. Some of Peirce's most innovative writings - for example, those on existential graphs - are effectively letters to Lady Welby. She was an esteemed correspondent of scholars such as Bertrand Russell, Charles K. Ogden, Herbert G. Wells, Ferdinand S. C. Schiller, Michel Bréal, André Lalande, the brothers Henry and William James, and Peirce, as well as Frederik van Eeden, Mary Everst Boole, Ferdinand Tönnies, and Giovanni Vailati. Her writings directly inspired the Signific Movement in the Netherlands, important for psycholinguistics, linguistics and semantics and inaugurated by van Eeden and developed by such authors as Gerrit Mannoury. This volume, containing introductions and commentaries, presents a selection from Welby's published and unpublished writings delineating the whole course of her research through to developments with the Significs Movement in the Netherlands and still other ramifications, contemporary and subsequent to her. A selection of essays by first-generation significians contributing to the Signific Movement in the Netherlands completes the collection, testifying to the progress of significs after Welby and even independently from her. This volume contributes to the reconstruction on both the historical and theoretical levels of an important period in the history of ideas. The aim of the volume is to convey a sense of the theoretical topicality of significs and its developments, especially in semiotics, and in particular its thematization of the question of values and the connection with signs, meaning, and understanding, therefore with human verbal and nonverbal behavior, language and communication.
£134.42
De Gruyter Historical Cognitive Linguistics
Book SynopsisThe volume explores the ways in which language change is studied within the framework of Cognitive Linguistics, a semantics-based theory of language production and perception. The eleven chapters explore two kinds of changes: firstly, those which involve mental prototypes or 'best instances' of particular concepts and extensions of these prototypes, and secondly, those which relate to conceptual networks, for example via metaphor or metonymy. More specifically, the papers address syntactic and lexical change, as well as the evolution of language and changes in the expression - usually metaphoric - of emotions. In presenting a wide range of current work of this kind, the volume demonstrates the value of cross-fertilization between historical and cognitive linguistics, and is intended to open the way for further related research. The included papers are of particular relevance to those working in metaphor theory and syntactic / semantic change within Cognitive Linguistics, but will also be of interest to other historical linguists and those studying cognitive semantics and metaphor from a synchronic viewpoint.
£134.42
De Gruyter Complex Sentences, Grammaticalization, Typology
Book SynopsisNew Perspectives on Historical Latin Syntax: Complex Sentences, Grammaticalization, Typology is the fourth in a set of four volumes dealing with the long-term evolution of Latin syntax, roughly from the 4th century BCE up to the 6th century CE. As in the other volumes, the non-technical style and extensive illustration with classical examples makes the content readable and immediately useful to the widest audience.
£195.70
De Gruyter English Modality: Core, Periphery and Evidentiality
Book SynopsisThe book presents new issues and areas of work in modality and evidentiality in English(es), and in relation to other European languages (French, Galician, Lithuanian, Spanish). Given the complexity of the relations among modal and evidential expressions, their constant diachronic evolution, and the variation found in different English-speaking areas, and in different genres and discourse domains, the volume addresses the following issues: the conceptual nature of modality, the relationship between the domains of modality and evidentiality, the evolution and current status of the modal auxiliaries and other modal expressions, the relationship with neighbouring grammatical categories (tense, aspect, mood), and the variation in different discourse domains and genres, in modelling stance and discourse identities.
£103.55
De Gruyter A Grammar of Alto Perené (Arawak)
Book SynopsisAsheninka Perene belongs to the Kampa group of the Arawak family, located in the central Peruvian Amazon in the foothills of the Andes mountains. While limited grammatical studies of Kampa languages exist, this grammar is by far the most comprehensive study of any language of this sub-family, and is one of only two or three comparable studies of Arawak languages more generally.
£122.07
De Gruyter Sprache und Kontext
£23.75
De Gruyter Das linguistische Erbe von al-Andalus
£19.00
De Gruyter La fortuna di Diodoro Siculo fra Quattrocento e
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£155.32
De Gruyter I dialetti del Piemonte orientale
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De Gruyter Kreolsprache Unserdeutsch
£18.50
De Gruyter Koloniale Straßennamen
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De Gruyter Schreiben im Ersten Weltkrieg
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de Gruyter Historische Lexikalische Semantik Und Linked Data
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£21.85
tredition Die Weisheit der Urahnen
£19.00
J.B. Metzler Lateinische Texte und ihre Schwierigkeit
Book SynopsisEinleitung.- Forschungshintergrund.- Erstellen eines Fragebogens.- Darstellung der Sprachvariablen.- Auswertung der Sprachvariablen.- Aufstellen eines statistischen Modells.- Inhaltliche Schwierigkeit.- Diskussion.
£66.49
BoD - Books on Demand Kritiske prispomnjenki k hornjej serbscinje
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BoD - Books on Demand Briefe von Georg Huth 18671906 an Berthold Laufer 18951898
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Books on Demand Julius Klaproths (1783-1835) Briefe an den
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Books on Demand Dat gaht Dick wat an
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£11.10
No Picnic Editions Das kommt mir Spanisch vor 150 Spanische Redewendungen und wo sie ihren Ursprung haben
£12.99
Ediciones Puma Aprendiendo El Griego del Nuevo Testamento
£18.99