Eyes Open features a captivating Discovery Education video and stimulating global topics that will spark curiosity and e......more

Two-up, a famous Australian soldiers’ gambling game, has given Australian English many unique words and phrases. The gam......more

Drawing on the latest insights from typology and historical linguistics, this book offers the first comprehensive histor......more

An increasing number of historical linguists now believe that the traditional reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European ......more

The Handbook of Neo-Aramaic aims to provide an introduction to, and details of the complex world of Neo-Aramaic. This la......more

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This book offers the first book-length treatment of the diachronic study of English exclamatives, tracing their developm......more

Old Literary Tibetan: A Comprehensive Grammatical Description Based on the "Old Tibetan Annals" is a pioneering work in ......more

Discover hundreds of intriguing, entertaining, and often hilarious origins to the English language’s most curious phrase......more

Dreyer’s English meets Schott’s Original Miscellany in this delicious tour of the lesser-known wonders of the language w......more

This book provides an introduction to the historical syntax of the Indo-European languages. It aims to provide an overvi......more

Wo kommt B-tocharisch ātstse ’dicht’ oder A-tocharisch märtār ’kurz’ her? Hier finden Sie die Antwort auf diese und vi......more

(Im)politeness in Ancient Egypt is the first book-length study of (im)politeness in ancient Egyptian texts. Leading expe......more

Khortha is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language spoken in Jharkhand, India. Netra P. Paudyal provides an in-depth analysis of ......more

The Emergence of Pragmatic Markers from Chinese Compounds in Chinese, Japanese and Korean offers a new perspective on th......more

This book offers the first comprehensive view of the historical construction of the meaning of the word ’crusade’ throug......more

This book provides an introduction to the historical syntax of the Indo-European languages. It aims to provide an overvi......more

Wo kommt B-tocharisch ātstse ’dicht’ oder A-tocharisch märtār ’kurz’ her? Hier finden Sie die Antwort auf diese und vi......more

This book provides an introduction to the historical syntax of the Indo-European languages. It aims to provide an overvi......more

Why is It Called That? The Origin of 350 Everyday Words Have you ever stopped and wondered why we call things what we do......more

In this book, Philip Zhakevich examines the technology of writing as it existed in the southern Levant during the Iron A......more

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With more than 50 years of teaching experience between them, Ilse Depraetere and Chad Langford present a grammar pitched......more

The words of the English language constitute an incredible heritage, and every word has its own unique history. Original......more

Applicative constructions are a distinctive grammatical feature of the Austronesian languages of western Indonesia, Mala......more

Sanskrit has long been celebrated as one of the building blocks of Indian civilization, and is venerated in temples, scr......more

मित् is a grammatical classification in the Dhatupatha. It applies Ashtadhyayi Sutra 6.4.92 मितां ह्रस्वः to specific Ro......more

मित् is a grammatical classification in the Dhatupatha. It applies Ashtadhyayi Sutra 6.4.92 मितां ह्रस्वः to specific Ro......more

Primary Ting Affixes Chart 3.4.77 लस्य । 3.4.78 तिप्तस्झिसिप्थस्थमिब्वस्मस्ताताझथासाथांध्वमिङ्वहिमहिङ् । तिप्-तस्-झि-सिप......more

Etymologies of English Prefixes provides an insightful exploration into the Sanskrit origins of over 8300 English prefix......more

This book delves into the Sanskrit origins of over 7400 English words, from beeb to bursiform, in alphabetical order. Ex......more

This book delves into the Sanskrit origins of over 7400 English words, from bursitis to chitinase, in alphabetical order......more

This book traces the Sanskrit origins of over 7400 English words, from rebato to Sahel, in alphabetical order. Examples ......more

This book delves into the Sanskrit origins of over 7400 English words from sahib to Shelley in alphabetical order. Examp......more

This book delves into the Sanskrit origins of over 7400 English words from Syringa to tormentum in alphabetical order. E......more

The words we use every day seem so permanent, so fixed in their meaning and form. Yet, every word in the English languag......more

This book delves into the Sanskrit origins of over 7400 English words from earthbound to faites in alphabetical order. E......more

This book delves into the Sanskrit origins of over 7400 English words from jibbah to libbard in alphabetical order. Exam......more

This book delves into the Sanskrit origins of over 7400 English words from shellfire to splenitis in alphabetical order.......more

This book delves into the Sanskrit origins of over 7400 English words from splenium to Syriarchate in alphabetical order......more