Historisk og sammenlignende lingvistikk

Language is always changing, but the way English is spoken today rubs many of us the wrong way. Whether it's the use of literally to mean "figuratively," or the way young people …

An academic staple updated for the first time in fifteen years, David Alan Black's user-friendly introduction to New Testament Greek keeps discussion of grammar as non-technical as …

Det jämtska språket från Fors till Åre är en översiktlig beskrivning av de nordiska dialekter som har utvecklats i landskapet Jämtland sedan längre än brev kan vittna. …

Kjell Ivar Vannebo setter prikken over i-en med sin reviderte, utvidede utgave om ord og uttrykk på norsk. Norsk dagligtale vrimler av billedlige uttrykk hentet fra mange slags …

Theclassic Wheelock's Latin remains the most highly regarded andbestselling single-volume, introductory Latin textbook of its kind. Now in itsseventh edition, Wheelock's Latin …

The Neo-Aramaic dialects are modern vernacular forms of Aramaic, which has a documented history in the Middle East of over 3,000 years. Due to upheavals in the Middle East over the …

The Tarahumara, one of North America's oldest surviving aboriginal groups, call themselves Rarámuri, meaning ""nimble feet"" - and though they live in relative isolation in …

Doublespeak is the language of non-responsibility, carefully constructed to appear to communicate when it fact it doesn't. In this lively and eye-opening expose, originally …

An offbeat natural history of language takes readers from the educational and cultural innovators of Sumeria, to the resilience of Chinese, to the global spread of English, in a …

Changing English examines the history of English from its origins in the fifth century to the present day. It focuses on the radical changes that have taken place in the structure …