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The Origins of Grammar

By James R. Hurford

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9780199207879, titled "The Origins of Grammar: Language in the Light of Evolution II" | Oxford Univ Pr, October 15, 2011, cover price $66.00

The History of Languages: An Introduction

By Tore Janson

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9780199604289 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 13, 2012, cover price $99.00

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9780199604296 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 17, 2011, cover price $37.95

Metaphor and the Historical Evolution of Conceptual Mapping

By Richard Trim

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9780230304826 | 1 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, November 15, 2011), cover price $100.00

Language and History, Linguistics and Historiography: Interdisciplinary Approaches

Product Description: What are the points of contact between the study of language and the study of history? What are the possibilities for collaboration between linguists and historians, and what prevents it? This volume, the proceedings of an international conference held at the University of Bristol in April 2009, presents twenty-two articles by linguists and historians, exploring the relationship between the fields theoretically, conceptually and in practice...read more

By Steffan Davies (editor), Nils Langer (editor) and Wim Vandenbussche (editor)

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9783034307611 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, December 31, 2011, cover price $86.95 | About this edition: What are the points of contact between the study of language and the study of history?

Corpus-based Analysis and Diachronic Linguistics

Product Description: Nowadays, linguists do not question the existence of synchronic variation, and the dichotomy between synchrony and diachrony. They recognize that synchrony can be motivated regionally (diatopic variation), sociolinguistically (diastratic variation), or stylistically (diaphasic variation)...read more

By Wolfgang Viereck (editor)

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9789027207708 | John Benjamins Pub Co, December 7, 2011, cover price $143.00 | About this edition: Nowadays, linguists do not question the existence of synchronic variation, and the dichotomy between synchrony and diachrony.

The Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution

By Kathleen R. Gibson (editor) and Maggie Tallerman (editor)

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9780199541119 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 13, 2012, cover price $175.00

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9780199679164 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 15, 2013, cover price $50.00

Rise and Fall of Sanskrit - in Historical Perspective

Product Description: Sanskrit - the only preserved and the most ancient of all languages, generally proclaimed as language of the gods. According to Indian tradition, Sanskrit has neither beginning nor an end. It is eternal. It is everlasting. Historically, the Sanskrit was adopted, developed and refined by the invading Aryans in the Indus Valley, during 1500 BC...read more

By Yussouf Shaheen

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9781477684252 | Createspace Independent Pub, June 6, 2012, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Sanskrit - the only preserved and the most ancient of all languages, generally proclaimed as language of the gods.

English Historical Linguistics: An International Handbook

By Alexander Bergs (editor) and Laurel J. Brinton (editor)

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9783110202656 | Mouton De Gruyter, January 30, 2013, cover price $475.00

9783110202205 | Mouton De Gruyter, June 30, 2012, cover price $475.00

What Language Is: And What It IsnÂt and What It Could Be

By John McWhorter

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9781592406258, titled "What Language Is: And What It Isn't and What It Could Be" | Gotham Books, August 4, 2011, cover price $26.00

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9781592407200, titled "What Language Is: And What It Isn't and What It Could Be" | Avery Pub Group, August 7, 2012, cover price $16.00

Laws and Rules in Indo-european

By Andreas Willi (editor)

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9780199609925 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 5, 2012, cover price $170.00

Unhistorical Gender Assignment in Layamon's Brut: A Case Study of a Late Stage in the Development of Grammatical Gender Toward Its Ultimate Loss

Product Description: This book explains how and why grammatical gender disappeared from English through a detailed analysis of unhistorical gender assignment within the noun phrase in Layamon’s Brut, one of the most important Early Middle English texts...read more

By Seiji Shinkawa

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9783034311243 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, September 14, 2012, cover price $58.95 | About this edition: This book explains how and why grammatical gender disappeared from English through a detailed analysis of unhistorical gender assignment within the noun phrase in Layamon’s Brut, one of the most important Early Middle English texts.

Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners

By Michael Erard

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9781451628258 | Free Pr, January 10, 2012, cover price $25.99

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9781451628265 | Free Pr, October 2, 2012, cover price $18.00

A Hovering of Vultures

Old Lettie Faraday may know why greedy Gerald Suzman is starting a fan club for minor literary figures Joshua and Susannah Sneddon, Yorkshire siblings and the victims of a fifty-year-old murder-sucide, and Detective Constable Charlie Peace fears for Lettie's life

By Robert Barnard

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9780786201419 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, March 1, 1994), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Old Lettie Faraday may know why greedy Gerald Suzman is starting a fan club for minor literary figures Joshua and Susannah Sneddon, Yorkshire siblings and the victims of a fifty-year-old murder-sucide, and Detective Constable Charlie Peace fears for Lettie's life

9780684196251 | Scribner, September 1, 1993, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Old Lettie Faraday may know why greedy Gerald Suzman is starting a fan club for minor literary figures Joshua and Susannah Sneddon, Yorkshire siblings and the victims of a fifty-year-old murder-suicide, and Detective Constable Charlie Peace fears for Lettie's life

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9781447239840 | Pan Macmillan, December 20, 2012, cover price $25.35

9780380776535 | Avon Books, June 1, 1995, cover price $4.99 | also contains Trask's Historical Linguistics | About this edition: Death returns to a Yorkshire village when a museum opens on the site of an unexplained murder/suicide where a renowned author killed his sister with an ax and shot himself.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780786107186 | Blackstone Audio Inc, May 1, 1995, cover price $39.95

Historical Linguistics: Toward a Twenty-first Century Reintegration

Product Description: Bringing the advances of theoretical linguistics to the study of language change in a systematic way, this innovative textbook demonstrates the mutual relevance of historical linguistics and contemporary linguistics. Numerous case studies throughout the book show both that theoretical linguistics can be used to solve problems where traditional approaches to historical linguistics have failed to produce satisfying results, and that the results of historical research can have an impact on theory...read more

By Josef F. Eska and Don Ringe

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9780521583329 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 11, 2013, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: Bringing the advances of theoretical linguistics to the study of language change in a systematic way, this innovative textbook demonstrates the mutual relevance of historical linguistics and contemporary linguistics.

Historical Linguistics: Toward a Twenty-first Century Reintegration

By Joseph F. Eska and Don Ringe

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9780521587112 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 11, 2013, cover price $44.99

Historical Linguistics: An Introduction

By Lyle Campbell

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9780262518499 | 3 edition (Mit Pr, March 22, 2013), cover price $55.00

9780262532679 | 2 edition (Mit Pr, November 1, 2004), cover price $46.00

9780262531597 | Mit Pr, January 1, 1999, cover price $37.95

The Bloomsbury Companion to Historical Linguistics

Product Description: Originally published as the Continuum Companion to Historical Linguistics, this book brings together a number of leading scholars who provide a combination of different approaches to current and new issues in historical linguistics, while supplying an exhaustive and up-to-date coverage of sub-fields traditionally regarded as central to historical linguistics research...read more

By Vit Bubenik (editor)

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9781441130105 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, May 14, 2013, cover price $46.95 | About this edition: Originally published as the Continuum Companion to Historical Linguistics, this book brings together a number of leading scholars who provide a combination of different approaches to current and new issues in historical linguistics, while supplying an exhaustive and up-to-date coverage of sub-fields traditionally regarded as central to historical linguistics research.

Synchrony and Diachrony: A Dynamic Interface

Product Description: The focus of this volume is on the relation between synchrony and diachrony. It is examined in the light of the most recent theories of language change and linguistic variation. What has traditionally been treated as a dichotomy is now seen rather in terms of a dynamic interface...read more

By Piera Molinelli (editor)

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9789027206008 | John Benjamins Pub Co, May 31, 2013, cover price $149.00 | About this edition: The focus of this volume is on the relation between synchrony and diachrony.

English Historical Pragmatics

Providing an ideal introduction to historical pragmatics, this guide gives students a solid grounding in historical pragmatics and teaches the methodology needed to analyse language in social, cultural and historical contexts. Using a number of case studies including politeness, news discourse, and scientific discourse, this book provides new insights into the analysis of discourse markers, interjections, terms of address and speech acts. Through focusing on the methodological problems in using historical data, students learn the key concepts in historical pragmatics, as well as covering recent work at the interface of between language and literature.

By Irma Taavitsainen

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9780748644698 | Edinburgh Univ Pr, August 30, 2013, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: Providing an ideal introduction to historical pragmatics, this guide gives students a solid grounding in historical pragmatics and teaches the methodology needed to analyse language in social, cultural and historical contexts.

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9780748644681 | Edinburgh Univ Pr, August 30, 2013, cover price $34.95

Diachronic and Typological Perspectives on Verbs

Product Description: This volume applies a diachronic perspective to the verb and mainly deals with typological change affecting tense, aspect, mood and modality in a variety of Indo-European languages (Latin, Romance, Celtic, Germanic, Slavic, Indo-Iranian, Hittite, and Semitic) and the non-Indo-European Turkic, Amerindian and some Australian languages...read more

By Ingmar SÃ¶hrman (editor)

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9789027206015 | John Benjamins Pub Co, July 15, 2013, cover price $149.00 | About this edition: This volume applies a diachronic perspective to the verb and mainly deals with typological change affecting tense, aspect, mood and modality in a variety of Indo-European languages (Latin, Romance, Celtic, Germanic, Slavic, Indo-Iranian, Hittite, and Semitic) and the non-Indo-European Turkic, Amerindian and some Australian languages.

9780312052195, titled "Inflation in Modern Economies" | Palgrave Macmillan, October 1, 1990, cover price $49.95 | also contains Inflation in Modern Economies

Functional-historical Approaches to Explanation: In Honor of Scott Delancey

Product Description: Contributions from both well-known practitioners and new voices in the areas of language typology, historical linguistics, and function-based approaches to language description define this volume, as does its foci in two major geographical areas ― southeast Asia and northwestern North America...read more

By Joana Jansen (editor)

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9789027206848 | John Benjamins Pub Co, July 15, 2013, cover price $149.00 | About this edition: Contributions from both well-known practitioners and new voices in the areas of language typology, historical linguistics, and function-based approaches to language description define this volume, as does its foci in two major geographical areas ― southeast Asia and northwestern North America.

The Evolutionary Emergence of Language: Evidence and Inference