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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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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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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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Jr. Kretzschmar
The Emergence and Development of American English

"Based on copious data from the Linguistic Atlas Project, this book tells the story of American English from a linguistic standpoint, illustrated with real-life examples of language in use. Authorita…

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Jr. Kretzschmar
The Emergence and Development of American English

"Based on copious data from the Linguistic Atlas Project, this book tells the story of American English from a linguistic standpoint, illustrated with real-life examples of language in use. Authorita…

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Language Change: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of recent advances in empirical, theoretical, and experimental research on language change, with a focus on semantic evolution. Bridging the gap between histor…

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The Method Works

This volume contains an introductory essay, the bibliography of Professor Ringe, and nineteen articles on various aspects of historical linguistics composed by current and former colleagues and students a…

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Foundational approaches to Celtic linguistics

Current Issues in Celtic Linguistics 1

This book showcases the latest research from the world's leading experts on Celtic linguistics. The 15 chapters span a variety of linguistic subdisciplines as well as theoretical and methodological perspe…

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Raevin Jimenez
Gather Your Ancestors

Southeasternmost Africa is home to a large variety of speech communities, including Nguni, East Bantu, Khoi, and San---the legacy of a long and complicated history of migration, interaction, assimilation,…

lieferbar ab 18.8.2026.

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Acting on actuation

Conceptual Foundations of Language Science

This volume presents a timely discussion on one of the most fundamental and yet elusive questions in historical linguistics: why do certain linguistic changes take place in some languages at specific time…

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Eva Zehentner
Competition in Language Change

This book addresses one of the most pervasive questions in historical linguistics - why variation becomes stable rather than being eliminated - by revisiting the so far neglected history of the English da…

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