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Historical Linguistics: An Introduction (Paperback)
by

Lyle Campbell

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avg rating 3.95 — 323 ratings — published 1991

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Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World (Paperback)
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Nicholas Ostler

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avg rating 4.06 — 2,685 ratings — published 2005

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The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
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David W. Anthony

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avg rating 3.98 — 2,256 ratings — published 2007

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In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology and Myth (Paperback)
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J.P. Mallory

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avg rating 4.10 — 716 ratings — published 1989

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Trask's Historical Linguistics (Paperback)
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Robert McColl Millar (Revision)

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avg rating 4.11 — 65 ratings — published 2007

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The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention (Paperback)
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Guy Deutscher

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avg rating 4.20 — 3,298 ratings — published 2005

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Old English and Its Closest Relatives: A Survey of the Earliest Germanic Languages (Paperback)
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Orrin W. Robinson

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avg rating 4.29 — 199 ratings — published 1992

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A Historical Greek Reader: Mycenaean to the Koine (Paperback)
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Stephen Colvin

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avg rating 4.60 — 5 ratings — published 2007

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Pre-Greek: Phonology, Morphology, Lexicon (Paperback)
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Robert S.P. Beekes

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avg rating 3.50 — 4 ratings — published 2014

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The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language (Paperback)
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Melvyn Bragg

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avg rating 3.95 — 4,532 ratings — published 2003

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Explaining Language Change (Paperback)
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William Croft

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avg rating 4.08 — 12 ratings — published 2000

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Letter Perfect: The Marvelous History of Our Alphabet From A to Z (Paperback)
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David Sacks

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avg rating 3.99 — 640 ratings — published 2003

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How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics (Paperback)
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Calvert Watkins

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avg rating 4.13 — 93 ratings — published 1995

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A History of the Japanese Language (Hardcover)
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Bjarke Frellesvig

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avg rating 4.18 — 22 ratings — published 2010

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Understanding Language Change (Paperback)
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April M.S. McMahon

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avg rating 3.69 — 32 ratings — published 1994

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Language Change: Progress or Decay? (Paperback)
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Jean Aitchison

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avg rating 3.86 — 287 ratings — published 1980

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The Origins and Development of the English Language (Hardcover)
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John Algeo

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avg rating 3.84 — 257 ratings — published 1964

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Historical Linguistics (Paperback)
by

Theodora Bynon

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avg rating 3.61 — 28 ratings — published 1977

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Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction (Paperback)
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Benjamin W. Fortson IV

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avg rating 4.24 — 105 ratings — published 2004

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An Introduction to Historical Linguistics (Paperback)
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Terry Crowley

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avg rating 3.79 — 89 ratings — published

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ساخت زبان فارسی
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آزیتا افراشی

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avg rating 2.86 — 14 ratings — published 2008

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And God Said: How Translations Conceal the Bible's Original Meaning (Hardcover)
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Joel M. Hoffman (Goodreads Author)

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avg rating 3.68 — 170 ratings — published 2010

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A Short History of Linguistics (Paperback)
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R.H. Robins

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avg rating 3.36 — 101 ratings — published 1968

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Schools of Linguistics: Competition and Evolution (Paperback)
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Geoffrey Sampson

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avg rating 3.56 — 32 ratings — published

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The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots (Paperback)
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Calvert Watkins (Editor)

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avg rating 4.42 — 174 ratings — published 1985

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Western Linguistics: An Historical Introduction (Hardcover)
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Pieter A.M. Seuren

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avg rating 3.77 — 13 ratings — published 1998

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In the Beginning: A Short History of the Hebrew Language (Paperback)
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Joel M. Hoffman (Goodreads Author)

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avg rating 3.69 — 71 ratings — published 2004

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Economía de los cambios fonéticos: tratado de fonología diacrónica
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André Martinet

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avg rating 4.25 — 4 ratings — published 1955

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Apercu d'une histoire de la langue grecque (Paperback)
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Antoine Meillet

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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1913

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Handbuch Der Griechischen Laut-Und Formenlehre: Eine Einf�hrung in Das Sprachwissenschaftliche Studium Des Griechischen (Classic Reprint)
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Herman Hirt

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A Sanskrit Grammar (Paperback)
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Manfred Mayrhofer

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avg rating 4.50 — 4 ratings — published 2003

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A Vedic Reader for Students (Paperback)
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Arthur Anthony MacDonell

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Introduction to Indo-European Linguistics (Paperback)
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Oswald John Louis Szemerényi

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avg rating 3.68 — 19 ratings — published 1980

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The Development of Old English (Hardcover)
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Don Ringe

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avg rating 5.00 — 3 ratings — published 2014

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Syntactic Reconstruction and Proto-Germanic (Hardcover)
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George Walkden

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avg rating 4.67 — 3 ratings — published 2014

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Old English Syntax: Volume II (subordination, independent elements, and element order) (C)
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Bruce Mitchell

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avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 1985

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A Historical Syntax of English (Paperback)
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Bettelou Los

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Outline of the Historical and Comparative Grammar of Latin (Paperback)
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Michael Weiss

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avg rating 4.50 — 4 ratings — published 2009

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Latin Alive: The Survival of Latin in English and the Romance Languages (Paperback)
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Joseph B. Solodow

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avg rating 4.10 — 71 ratings — published 2001

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A Comparative Germanic Grammar (Paperback)
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Eduard Prokosch

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avg rating 4.25 — 16 ratings — published 2009

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A Guide to Old English (Paperback)
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Bruce Mitchell

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avg rating 4.14 — 394 ratings — published 1964

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The Blackwell History of the Latin Language (Hardcover)
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James Clackson

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avg rating 3.85 — 27 ratings — published 2007

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Introduction To The Laryngeal Theory (Hardcover)
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Fredrik Otto Lindeman

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Theoretical Bases of Indo-European Linguistics (Paperback)
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Winfred P. Lehmann

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avg rating 4.21 — 14 ratings — published 1993

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Old English: Grammar and Reader (Paperback)
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Robert E. Diamond

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avg rating 3.87 — 38 ratings — published 1970

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Old English: A Historical Linguistic Companion (Paperback)
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Roger Lass

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avg rating 4.53 — 15 ratings — published 1993

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Phonetics and Philology: Sound Change in Italic (Hardcover)
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Jane Stuart-Smith

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avg rating 3.75 — 4 ratings — published 2004

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Latin Grammar You Really Need to Know (Paperback)
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Gregory Klyve

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avg rating 4.25 — 4 ratings — published 2013

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World Lexicon of Grammaticalization (Hardcover)
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Tania Kuteva

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The Relationship Among the Mixe-Zoquean Languages of Mexico (Hardcover)
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Søren Wichmann

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avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 1995

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