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Comparative linguistics

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The science of language

F. Max Müller

1864

A grammar of the Icelandic or Old Norse tongue

Rasmus Rask

1843

Historical and comparative linguistics

Raimo Anttila

1989

Universal Grammar and second language acquisition

Lydia White

1989

Contributions Toward a History of Arabico-Gothic Culture

Leo Wiener

1917

Chips from a German workshop

F. Max Müller

1867

The dictionary of historical and comparative linguistics

R. L. Trask

2000

Introduction to the science of language

Archibald Henry Sayce

1880

Two dissertations

Gregory Sharpe

1751

Language change and linguistic reconstruction

Henry M. Hoenigswald

1960

Linguistic variability & intellectual development

Wilhelm von Humboldt

1971

Through the language glass

Guy Deutscher

2010 ★ 3.9

Variation across speech and writing

Douglas Biber

1991

The principles of comparative philology

Archibald Henry Sayce

1874

Chinese and Sumerian

Ball, C. J.

1913

On the origin of languages

Merritt Ruhlen

1994

Language history, language change, and language relationship

Hans Henrich Hock

1996

The life and growth of language

William Dwight Whitney

1875

The history of language

Henry Sweet

1900

Comparative Indo-European linguistics

R. S. P. Beekes

2011

Language classification

William J. Poser, Lyle Campbell

2008

Two lectures on the science of language

James Hope Moulton

1903

Darwinism and the Linguistic Image

Stephen G. Alter

1999

Lectures on the science of language, delivered at the Royal institution of Great Britain in 1861 [and 1863]

F. Max Müller

1861

Investigations representing the departments

University of Chicago.

1903

Lectures on the Science of language delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in April, May & June, 1861

F. Max Müller

1866

Toward Proto-Nostratic

Allan R. Bomhard

1984

Sign Languages of the World

Julie Jepsen, Goedele De Clerck, William B. McGregor et al.

2015

The psycho-biology of language

George Kingsley Zipf

1935

Comparative Semitic Linguistics

Patrick R. Bennett

1998

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