This book challenges media-celebrated evolutionary studies linking Indo-European languages to Neolithic Anatolia, instead defending traditional practices in historical linguistics.

The text begins with an introduction to the concept of the Indo-European language family, the history of its discovery, and the techniques of analysis.

A Stanford University Press classic.

The first comparative grammar of the Semitic languages, by H. Zimmern, was published a hundred years ago and the last original work of this kind was issued in Russian in 1972 by B.M. Grande.

In The Origins of English Words, Shipley catalogues these proposed roots and follows the often devious, always fascinating, process by which some of their offshoots have grown.

The scripts are explained in an appendix at the end of the book.

Available again, this book discusses nine Romance languages in context of their common Latin origins and then in individual studies.

This collection of essays and reviews represents the most significant and comprehensive writing on Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors.

In this new edition, every single entry has been reviewed and updated with reference to new developments and publications.

This well-illustrated volume provides the best collection of Etruscan inscriptions and texts currently in print.