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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
De Historiografia Linguistica e historia de las lenguas De Historiografia Linguistica e historia de las lenguas Ignacio Guzman Betancourt A traves de los ensayos contenidos en este volumen, se persigue mostrar, dentro de una dimension diacronica, algunos rasgos linguisticos de las lenguas vernaculas de Mexico y Brasil, siempre desde la… OL10220647W
The power of Babel The power of Babel John H. McWhorter "There are approximately six thousand languages on Earth today, each a descendant of the tongue first spoken by Homo sapiens some 150,000 years ago. How did they all develop? What happened to the fir… OL109620W
Investigations in sociohistorical linguistics Investigations in sociohistorical linguistics Peter Trudgill "In the last five hundred years or so, the English language has undergone remarkable geographical expansion, bringing it into contact with other languages in new locations. It also caused different r… OL15587963W
Analysing older English Analysing older English David Denison "Is historical linguistics different in principle from other linguistic research? This book addresses problems encountered in gathering and analysing data from early English, including the incomplete… OL15936482W
Historia de la lengua griega Historia de la lengua griega Albert Debrunner,O Hoffmann,A Scherer,Francisco Rodríguez Adrados De todas las lenguas conocidas desde hace tres mil quinientos años, sólo el griego y el chino siguen hablándose hoy. Otras lenguas de cultura se han hablado y escrito durante siglos: el sumerio, el e… OL17921885W
Morphology and language history Morphology and language history Harold James Koch,Bethwyn Evans,Claire Bowern,Luisa Miceli This volume aims to make a contribution to codifying the methods and practices linguists use to recover language history, focussing predominantly on historical morphology. The volume includes studies… OL19889245W
Relasi historis kekerabatan bahasa Flores Relasi historis kekerabatan bahasa Flores Inyo Yos Fernandez Comparative historical linguistic study of nine languages on Flores Island, Nusa Tenggara Timur Province. OL2610490W
The comment clause in English The comment clause in English Laurel J. Brinton "Although English comment clauses such as I think and you know have been widely studied, this book constitutes the first full-length diachronic treatment, focusing on comment clauses formed with comm… OL3240735W
The donkey's story The donkey's story Barbara Cohen A somewhat humorous retelling, featuring Balaam's donkey, of the Bible story in which Balak, king of Moab, calls upon Balaam, the prophet, to curse the Israelites, but he blesses them instead. OL646008W