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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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Manchán Magan
Thirty-Two Words for Field

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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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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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J P Mallory
The Indo-Europeans Rediscovered

A lifetime's study brings revealing expertise to an oft-misunderstood topic in human history--the origin and language of the Indo-Europeans.

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Alan Connor
188 Words for Rain

Mizzle. Dreich. Raining knives and forks. A real mugga-fisty. A spot of plother...We Brits love talking about the weather. So much so that our islands have hundreds of words and phrases for rain, some sel…

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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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Al-An&,
The Book of Rain

Named a Best Book of 2025 by Books Without BordersA vivid translation of Abū Zayd alAnṣārī's early Arabic weather lexicon, Book of Rain reveals a richly detailed linguistic landscape devoted to the many f…

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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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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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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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Olga Kellert
The (in)transparency of meaning change and variation : A study of the indefinite cualquiera in European and Argentinian Spanish

Advances in Historical Linguistics 2

This book investigates the development of indefinites like cualquiera in European and Argentinian Spanish, tracing their path from modal meanings like free choice and random selection to evaluative and ev…

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Marcelle Cole
The Early History of they

New Approaches to English Historical Linguistics

This book challenges the long-held theory that the English pronouns they, their, them are loanwords from Old Norse, arguing instead that the pronouns ultimately derive from the Old English demonstratives …

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Jacques Pauwels
Beneath the Dust of Time

Beneath the Dust of Time is an unconventional combination of history and the etymology of names. It was inspired and guided by two new paradigms. The first is the "Sahara hypothesis." This theor…

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Manuel des langues créoles à base française

Manuals of Romance Linguistics

L'ouvrage donne une vue d'ensemble de la recherche actuelle sur les langues créoles à base française. Il propose, d'une part, une présentation comparative de ces créoles et, de l'autre, des descriptions d…

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Rebecca Shapiro
Lexicography and the Law

Legal professionals in the United States increasingly have relied on dictionaries, both current and historical, in court cases. This practice is complicated because originalist jurists are often not well-…

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Ngugi Wa Thiong'O
Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas

A Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book Brilliant thoughts on modern African literature and postcolonial literary criticism from one of the giants of contemporary letters "One of the greatest writers of…

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Todd S. Frobish
Discourses at Play

Todd Frobish explores a diverse set of historical crises through the lens of "rhetorical gameplay", an approach that serves as the intersection between rhetorical theory and game studies.The fie…

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Rebecca Shapiro
Lexicography and the Law

Elements in Applied Linguistics

Legal professionals in the United States increasingly have relied on dictionaries, both current and historical, in court cases. This practice is complicated because originalist jurists are often not well-…

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