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American Indian Languages
Oxford University Press 2000; US$ 75.00Native American languages are spoken from Siberia to Greenland. Campbell's project is to take stock of what is known about the history of Native American languages and in the process examine the state of American Indian historical linguistics. more...
Historical Linguistics
Edinburgh University Press 2013; US$ 120.00This accessible, hands-on introduction to historical linguistics - the study of language change - does not just talk about topics. With abundant examples and exercises, it helps students learn for themselves how to do historical linguistics.Distinctive to the book is its integration of the standard traditional topics with others now considered vital... more...
A Glossary of Historical Linguistics
Edinburgh University Press 2007; US$ 79.60Historical Linguistics - the study of language change - is a major field in linguistics. With its long history and numerous subfields of its own, Historical Linguistics provides challenges to both beginning students and scholars not specialized in this field. This Glossary meets these challenges by providing accessible and widely representative definitions,... more...
Language Classification
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 123.00Discusses language classification and how and why languages diversify and spread. more...
Grammar from the Human Perspective
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2006; US$ 165.00The papers of this volume investigate how grammar codes the subjective viewpoint of human language users, that is, how grammar reflects human conceptualization. Some of the articles deal with spatial relations and locations. They discuss how basic attributes of human conceptualization are encoded in the grammatical expression of spatial relations.... more...
The Indigenous Languages of South America
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 350.00The Indigenous Languages of South America: A Comprehensive Guide is a thorough guide to the indigenous languages of this part of the world. With more than a third of the linguistic diversity of the world (in terms of language families and isolates), South American languages contribute new findings in most areas of linguistics. Though formerly one of... more...
New Zealand English
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 45.00New Zealand English is one of the newest varieties of English, and is unique in that its history and development are documented in extensive audio-recordings. On the basis of these recordings, this book examines the linguistic changes New Zealand English has undergone since it was first spoken in the 1850s. more...
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