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The Oxford Guide to the Languages of the Central Andes

This volume presents the first comprehensive overview in English of the languages of the Central Andes, spoken primarily in Peru and Bolivia. Chapters provide detailed descriptions of individual languages…

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Amalia E Gnanadesikan
The Writing Revolution

An exploration of the original Information Technology - the writing systems of historyThe Writing Revolution: Cuneiform to the Internet explores the origins, historical development, adaptations, linguisti…

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Simon Horobin
Chaucer's Language

Introduces students to Chaucer's language and the importance of reading Chaucer in the original, rather than in a modern translation.

lieferbar ab 13.11.2025.

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The Oxford Guide to the Atlantic Languages of West Africa

This volume is the first book-length overview of the Atlantic languages, a small family of languages spoken mainly on the Atlantic coast of West Africa. It is an essential tool for linguists interested in…

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Hana Videen
The Deorhord

An entertaining tour of Old English words for animals, from the author of The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old EnglishMany of the animals we encounter in everyday life, from pets and farm animals to the wild c…

lieferbar ab 16.9.2025.

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Gyles Brandreth
Prose & Cons

As fans of Just a Minute know, the key to the game is knowing your way around the English language: how it works, how it's evolved, and how words connect, often in surprising ways. When it comes to the En…

lieferbar ab 30.12.2025.

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The Oxford Guide to the Bantu Languages

This volume brings together leading scholars from the African continent and beyond to provide a detailed account of the languages of the Bantu family. The book will be an essential resource for students a…

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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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Lucas van der Deijl
Translating the New Philosophy in the Dutch Early Enlightenment (1640-1720)

A small group of freethinkers from the Dutch Republic played a key role in the major intellectual changes of the Early Enlightenment (1640-1720). In the wake of Cartesianism, their rationalist ideas trans…

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Helge Kragh
The Names of Science

The history of science is echoed in the development of its language and the names chosen for its technical terms. This book examines in detail how new words entered the scientific vocabulary and how some,…

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Sowmya Dechamma CC
Languages of Minority

The book discusses ideas around concepts of orality, the vernacular, translation, and multilinguilism, to argue that the idea of the mother tongue is constructed historically. It highlights the importance…

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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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Alison Findlay, Sean Murphy, Dawn Archer,
The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language

The Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare's Language is the first comprehensive account of Shakespeare's language to use computational methods derived from corpus linguistics - methods of choice for today's histor…

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Miriam Weinstein
Yiddish

The history, tragedies, and bitter controversies that characterized a language once spoken by 11 million people brought vividly to life For a people of exile, the language took the place of a nation. . . …

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Ben Yagoda
Gobsmacked!

A spot-on guide to how and why Americans have become so bloody keen on Britishisms---for good or illThe British love to complain that words and phrases imported from America---from French fries to Awesome…

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Thinking in Chinese and English

Do Chinese and English speakers think differently? While the strong version of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis --- the idea that language determines thought --- has long been discredited, this book offers a mo…

lieferbar ab 17.12.2025.

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Jakob Ladegaard, Ross Deans Kristensen-McLachlan,
The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language

Dialogue is at the heart of Shakespeare's plays, and when his characters exchange words, they create social communities. This book is the first to present, explore and compare those verbal communities in …

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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…

lieferbar ab 7.10.2025.

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Caleb Everett
A Myriad of Tongues

Exploring breakthroughs in language and cognition research, Caleb Everett finds that fundamentals of human perception are culturally encoded by the words and sentences we use. The experience of time, spac…

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Al-An&,
The Book of Rain

The contents of the future are the contents of a cloud.So begins translator David Larsen's introduction for the Book of Rain, the earliest known catalogue of Arabic weather-words, by early Arabic linguist…

lieferbar ab 7.10.2025.

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