Browse Books in Historical & Comparative

Negotiating Linguistic Plurality
Translation and Multilingualism in Canada and Beyond
Notes on the Development of the Principal Sounds of Indo-European through Proto-Germanic and West Germanic in Old English
The Language of the Book of Songs
Late Han Chinese
A Study of the Archaic-Han Shift

Late Archaic Chinese
A Grammatical Study

Watch Your Tongue
What Our Everyday Sayings and Idioms Figuratively Mean

Language, Capitalism, Colonialism
Toward a Critical History

Late Archaic Chinese
A Grammatical Study

How Happy Became Homosexual
And Other Mysterious Semantic Shifts

More Heat Than Light?
Sex-difference Science and the Study of Language

Old English Reader

A Gentle Introduction to Old English

Making Wawa
The Genesis of Chinook Jargon

Talk of the Nation
Language and Conflict in Romania and Slovakia

Conflict and Compromise in Multilingual Societies: Belgium

When I Was Small – I Wan Kwikws
A Grammatical Analysis of St'át'imc Oral Narratives

Letter Perfect
The A-to-Z History of Our Alphabet

Musqueam Reference Grammar

Place Names of the Northern Peninsula

Conflict and Compromise in Multilingual Societies: Switzerland

Semantics and the Body
Meaning from Frege to the Postmodern

Conflict and Compromise in Multilingual Societies: Finland

The Lillooet Language
Phonology, Morphology, Syntax
Public Men and Virtuous Women
The Gendered Languages of Religion and Politics in Upper Canada, 1791-1850