books tagged “language history”

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  Alpha Beta: How 26 Letters Shaped the Western World
  by John Man
  Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc, ISBN 047141574X (0-471-41574-X)
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  Alpha Beta: How Our Alphabet Changed the Western World
  by John Man
  Hardcover, Headline, ISBN 0747271364 (0-7472-7136-4)
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  The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots
  by Calvert Watkins
  Softcover, Houghton Mifflin, ISBN 0618082506 (0-618-08250-6)
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  Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction
  by Antonio Loprieno
  Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr, ISBN 0521448492 (0-521-44849-2)
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  The Arabic Language
  by Kees Versteegh
  Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr, ISBN 0748614362 (0-7486-1436-2)
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  A B C Et Cetera: The Life & Times of the Roman Alphabet
  by Alexander Humez, Nicholas Humez
  Softcover, David R Godine Pub, ISBN 1567921000 (1-56792-100-0)
  More editions of A B C Et Cetera: The Life & Times of the Roman Alphabet:
  • A B C Et Cetera: The Life & Times of the Roman Alphabet: Softcover, David R Godine Pub, ISBN 0879236647 (0-87923-664-7)
  • ABC Et Cetera: The Life & Times of the Roman Alphabet: Hardcover, David R Godine Pub, ISBN 087923587X (0-87923-587-X)
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  Caring for Yourself While Caring for Your Aging Parents: How to Help, How to Survive
  by Anna Politkovskaia
  Hardcover, Metropolitan Books, ISBN 9780805079 (978-080-507-9)
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  Celtic Studies: Essays in Memory of Angus Matheson, 1912-1962
  by Angus Matheson, David Greene, James Carney
  Hardcover, Barnes & Noble Imports, ISBN 0710060718 (0-7100-6071-8)
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  Charles Dickens
  by John Lucas
  Softcover, Penguin Group USA, ISBN 0140772529 (0-14-077252-9)
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  Chronology of Words & Phrases: A Thousand Years in the History of English
  by Roger Flavell, Linda Flavell
  Softcover, Kyle Cathie Ltd, ISBN 1856264149 (1-85626-414-9)
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  The Chronology of Words and Phrases : A Thousand Years in the History of English
  by Linda Flavell, Roger Flavell
  Hardcover, Cathie Limited, Kyle, ISBN 1856262499 (1-85626-249-9)
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  Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An Introduction
  by R. S. P. Beekes
  Softcover, John Benjamins Pub Co, ISBN 1556195052 (1-55619-505-2)
  More editions of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An Introduction:
  • Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An Introduction: Softcover, J. Benjamins Pub, ISBN 9027221510 (90-272-2151-0)
  • Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An Introduction: Hardcover, J. Benjamins Pub, ISBN 9027221502 (90-272-2150-2)
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  A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary
  by Herbert D. Meritt, J. R. Clark Hall
  Softcover, Univ of Toronto Pr, ISBN 0802065481 (0-8020-6548-1)
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  Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
  by Nicholas Ostler
  Softcover, Harpercollins, ISBN 0060935723 (0-06-093572-3)
  More editions of Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World:
  • Empires Of The Word: A Language History Of The World: Hardcover, Harpercollins, ISBN 0066210860 (0-06-621086-0)
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  The English Language: A Historical Introduction
  by Charles Barber
  Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr, ISBN 0521785707 (0-521-78570-7)
  More editions of The English Language: A Historical Introduction:
  • The English Language: A Historical Introduction: Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr, ISBN 0521426227 (0-521-42622-7)
  • The English Language: A Historical Introduction: Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr, ISBN 0521416205 (0-521-41620-5)
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  Etymologisches Worterbuch Der Deutschen Sprache: 22. Auflage Unter Mithilfe Von Max Burgisser Und Bernd Gregor Vollig Neu Bearbeitet Von
  by Friedrich Kluge, Elmar Seebold
  Hardcover, Walter De Gruyter Inc, ISBN 3110068001 (3-11-006800-1)
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  Ferdinand De Saussure
  by Jonathan D. Culler
  Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr, ISBN 0801493897 (0-8014-9389-7)
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  From Latin to Modern French
  by M.K. Pope
  Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 0719001765 (0-7190-0176-5)
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  Frontier Lawmen
  by Lee Paul
  Softcover, Jona Books, ISBN 0965792951 (0-9657929-5-1)
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  Generative Grammar
  by Geoffrey C. Horrocks
  Softcover, Prentice Hall, ISBN 0582291313 (0-582-29131-3)
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  Genes, Peoples, and Languages
  by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Mark Seielstad
  Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux, ISBN 0865475296 (0-86547-529-6)
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  Greek: A History of the Language and Its Speakers
  by Geoffrey C. Horrocks
  Softcover, Pearson P T R, ISBN 0582307090 (0-582-30709-0)
  More editions of Greek: A History of the Language and Its Speakers:
  • Greek: A History of the Language and Its Speakers: Hardcover, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0582031915 (0-582-03191-5)
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  The Greek Language
  by Leonard R. Palmer
  Softcover, Intl Pub Marketing Inc, ISBN 1853994669 (1-85399-466-9)
  More editions of The Greek Language:
  • The Greek Language: Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr, ISBN 0806128445 (0-8061-2844-5)
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  The Handbook of Language Variation and Change
  by Peter Trudgill, J.K. Chambers, Natalie Schilling-Estes
  Softcover, Blackwell Pub, ISBN 1405116927 (1-4051-1692-7)
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  Have You Ever Wondered?
  by Mary A. Goldsmith
  Softcover, Dorrance Pub Co, ISBN 0805942742 (0-8059-4274-2)
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  Heavy Words Lightly Thrown: The Reason Behind the Rhyme
  by Chris Roberts
  Softcover, Gotham Books, ISBN 1592402178 (1-59240-217-8)
  More editions of Heavy Words Lightly Thrown: The Reason Behind the Rhyme:
  • Heavy Words Lightly Thrown: The Reason Behind The Rhyme: Hardcover, Penguin Group USA, ISBN 1592401309 (1-59240-130-9)
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  History of the French Language
  by Peter Rickard
  Softcover, Unwin Hyman, ISBN 041510887X (0-415-10887-X)
  More editions of History of the French Language:
  • History of the French Language: Hardcover, Hutchinson, ISBN 0091187400 (0-09-118740-0)
  • History of the French Language: Hardcover, Hutchinson, ISBN 0091187419 (0-09-118741-9)
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  A History of the Spanish Language
  by Ralph Penny
  Hardcover, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521805872 (0-521-80587-2)
  More editions of A History of the Spanish Language:
  • A History of the Spanish Language: Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr, ISBN 0521397847 (0-521-39784-7)
  • A History of the Spanish Language: Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr, ISBN 0521394813 (0-521-39481-3)
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  Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet
  by Barry B. Powell
  Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr, ISBN 052158907X (0-521-58907-X)
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  Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans: A Reconstruction and Historical Analysis of a Proto-Language and a Proto-Culture The Text
  by Thomas V. Gamkrelidze, Vjaceslav V. Ivanov, Werner Winter
  Hardcover, Walter De Gruyter Inc, ISBN 3110096463 (3-11-009646-3)
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  Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction
  by Benjamin Fortson
  Softcover, Blackwell Pub, ISBN 1405103167 (1-4051-0316-7)
  More editions of Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction:
  • Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction: Hardcover, Blackwell Pub, ISBN 1405103159 (1-4051-0315-9)
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  An Introduction to Historical Linguistics
  by Terry Crowley
  Softcover, University of Papua New Guinea Press, ISBN 9980840048 (9980-84-004-8)
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  Japanese/Korean Linguistics
  by William McClure
  Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr, ISBN 1575864428 (1-57586-442-8)
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  Language And Society in the German-speaking Countries
  by Michael G. Clyne
  Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr, ISBN 0521276977 (0-521-27697-7)
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  The Languages of China
  by S. Robert Ramsey
  Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr, ISBN 069101468X (0-691-01468-X)
  More editions of The Languages of China:
  • The Languages of China: Hardcover, Princeton University Press, ISBN 0691066949 (0-691-06694-9)
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  The Languages of Japan
  by Masayoshi Shibatani
  Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr, ISBN 0521369185 (0-521-36918-5)
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  Latin or the Empire of a Sign: From the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries
  by Francoise Waquet, John Howe
  Softcover, Verso Books, ISBN 1859844022 (1-85984-402-2)
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  Latin: or The Empire of the Sign
  by Francoise Waquet, John Howe
  Hardcover, Verso Books, ISBN 1859846157 (1-85984-615-7)
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  Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
  by Bill Bryson
  Softcover, Avon Books, ISBN 0380713810 (0-380-71381-0)
  More editions of Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States:
  • Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States: Hardcover, Harpercollins, ISBN 068810312X (0-688-10312-X)
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  Modern Chinese: History and Sociolinguistics
  by Ping Chen
  Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr, ISBN 0521645727 (0-521-64572-7)
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  The Mother Tongue: English & How It Got That Way
  by Bill Bryson
  Softcover, Avon Books, ISBN 0380715430 (0-380-71543-0)
  More editions of The Mother Tongue: English & How It Got That Way:
  • The Mother Tongue: English & How It Got That Way: Hardcover, Harpercollins, ISBN 0688078958 (0-688-07895-8)
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  A Mouthful of Air: Language, Languages...Especially English
  by Anthony Burgess
  Softcover, Harpercollins, ISBN 068813789X (0-688-13789-X)
  More editions of A Mouthful of Air: Language, Languages...Especially English:
  • A Mouthful of Air: Language, Languages...Especially English: Hardcover, Harpercollins, ISBN 0688119352 (0-688-11935-2)
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  Old English and Its Closest Relatives: A Survey of the Earliest Germanic Languages
  by Orrin W. Robinson
  Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr, ISBN 0804722218 (0-8047-2221-8)
  More editions of Old English and Its Closest Relatives: A Survey of the Earliest Germanic Languages:
  • Old English and Its Closest Relatives: A Survey of the Earliest Germanic Languages: Hardcover, Stanford Univ Pr, ISBN 0804714541 (0-8047-1454-1)
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  Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
  by Simon Winchester
  Hardcover, Thorndike Pr, ISBN 0783885008 (0-7838-8500-8)
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  Romance Languages
  by Rebecca Posner
  Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr, ISBN 0521281393 (0-521-28139-3)
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  Scandinavian Loan-Words in Middle English
  by Erik Bjorkman
  Hardcover, Greenwood Press, ISBN 0837118034 (0-8371-1803-4)
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  The Stories of English
  by David Crystal
  Softcover, Overlook Pr, ISBN 1585677191 (1-58567-719-1)
  More editions of The Stories of English:
  • The Stories of English: Hardcover, Penguin USA, ISBN 1585676012 (1-58567-601-2)
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  The Story of English
  by Robert McCrum, William Cran, Robert MacNeil
  Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada), ISBN 0140154051 (0-14-015405-1)
  More editions of The Story of English:
  • The Story of English: Softcover, Penguin Group USA, ISBN 0142002313 (0-14-200231-3)
  • The Story of English: Softcover, Penguin Books, ISBN 0140094350 (0-14-009435-0)
  • The Story of English: Softcover, Kendall Hunt Pub Co, ISBN 0840340354 (0-8403-4035-4)
  • The Story of English: Hardcover, Penguin Group USA, ISBN 0670804673 (0-670-80467-3)
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  The Story of Writing: With over 350 Illustrations, 50 in Color
  by Andrew Robinson
  Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc, ISBN 0500016658 (0-500-01665-8)
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  The Story of Writing: Alphabets, Hieroglyphs, and Pictograms
  by Andrew Robinson
  Softcover, Thames & Hudson, ISBN 0500281564 (0-500-28156-4)
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  Swearing: A Social History of Foul Language, Oaths and Profanity in English
  by Geoffrey Hughes
  Softcover, Blackwell Pub, ISBN 0631187359 (0-631-18735-9)
  More editions of Swearing: A Social History of Foul Language, Oaths and Profanity in English:
  • Swearing: A Social History of Foul Language, Oaths and Profanity in English: Hardcover, Blackwell Pub, ISBN 0631165932 (0-631-16593-2)
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  Textual Scholarship: An Introduction
  by D. C. Greetham
  Softcover, Routledge, ISBN 0815317913 (0-8153-1791-3)
  More editions of Textual Scholarship: An Introduction:
  • Textual Scholarship: An Introduction: Hardcover, Taylor & Francis, ISBN 0815300581 (0-8153-0058-1)
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  The Twenty-Six Letters
  by Oscar Ogg
  Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books, ISBN 0690841159 (0-690-84115-9)
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  The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
  by Guy Deutscher
  Softcover, Owl Books, ISBN 0805080120 (0-8050-8012-0)
  More editions of The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention:
  • The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour Of Mankind's Greatest Invention: Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co, ISBN 0805079076 (0-8050-7907-6)

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  L'accent Du Souvenir
  by Bernard Cerquiglini
  Hardcover, Editions De Minuit, ISBN 2707315362 (2-7073-1536-2)
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  L'aventure Des Langues En Occident: Leur Origine, Leur Histoire, Leur Geographie
  by Henriette Walter
  Hardcover, R. Laffont, ISBN 2221059182 (2-221-05918-2)
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  Dictionnaire Historique De L'orthographe Francaise
  by Nina Catach
  Hardcover, Larousse, ISBN 2033403300 (2-03-340330-0)
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  L'evolution Du Francais: Ordre Des Mots, Demonstratifs, Accent Tonique
  by Christiane Marchello-Nizia
  Hardcover, A. Colin, ISBN 2200215754 (2-200-21575-4)
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  Le Francais D'ici, De La, De La-Bas
  by Henriette Walter
  Hardcover, JC Lattes, ISBN 2709616505 (2-7096-1650-5)
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  Le Francais Dans Tous Les Sens
  by Henriette Walter
  Hardcover, R. Laffont, ISBN 2221052544 (2-221-05254-4)
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  Le Grand Livre De La Langue Francaise
  by Marina Yaguello, Claire Blanche-Benveniste
  Hardcover, Seuil, ISBN 2020336278 (2-02-033627-8)
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  Histoire De La Langue Francaise
  by Jacques Chaurand
  Hardcover, Presses universitaires de France, ISBN 2130377599 (2-13-037759-9)
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  Honni Soit Qui Mal Y Pense: L'incroyable Histoire D'amour Entre Le Francais Et L'anglais
  by Henriette Walter
  Hardcover, R. Laffont, ISBN 222108165X (2-221-08165-X)
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  Les Inventeurs Du Bon Usage: 1529-1647
  by Danielle Trudeau
  Hardcover, Editions De Minuit, ISBN 2707314102 (2-7073-1410-2)
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  La Langue Des Rois Au Moyen Age: Le Francais En France Et En Angleterre
  by Serge Lusignan
  Hardcover, Presses universitaires de France, ISBN 2130543928 (2-13-054392-8)
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  Nouvelle Histoire De La Langue Francaise
  by Jacques Chaurand
  Hardcover, Editions Du Seuil, ISBN 2020235862 (2-02-023586-2)
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  L'orthographe Francaise: Traite Theorique Et Pratique Avec Des Travaux D'application Et Leurs Corriges
  by Nina Catach, Claude Gruaz, Daniel Duprez
  Hardcover, Nathan, ISBN 2091905100 (2-09-190510-0)
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  Quand L'Europe Parlait Francais
  by Marc Fumaroli
  Hardcover, Fallois, ISBN 2877064263 (2-87706-426-3)

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  Meshuggenary: Celebrating the World of Yiddish
  by Sol Steinmetz, Payson R. Stevens, Charles M. Levine
  Hardcover, Simon & Schuster, ISBN 0743227425 (0-7432-2742-5)

German

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  Etymologisches Worterbuch Der Deutschen Sprache
  by Elmar Seebold
  Hardcover, Walter De Gruyter Inc, ISBN 3110163926 (3-11-016392-6)

Swedish

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  Runor: Historia, Tydning, Tolkning
  by Lars Magnar Enoksen
  Hardcover, Historiska media, ISBN 9188930327 (91-88930-32-7)