Philology


The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities (The William G. Bowen Series)
Beowulf
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
The Great Gatsby
A Guide to Old English
J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
Romeo and Juliet
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
Studies in Words (Canto)
Madame Bovary
Mrs. Dalloway
The Odyssey
The Riddle of the Labyrinth by Margalit FoxBreaking the Maya Code by Michael D. CoeThe Code Book by Simon SinghLost Languages by Andrew RobinsonThe Writing of the Gods by Edward Dolnick
Cryptolinguistics
16 books — 17 voters
BREAKING THE BIAS OF ENGLISH by Vivian ProbstThe Power of Babel by Michel PierssensText Structure by Nelly TinchevaAfrikan Alphabets by Saki MafundikwaExophony by Yōko Tawada
•Lingualish'tics
106 books — 16 voters

The Normans by Judith A. GreenThe Normans by Lars BrownworthThe Norman Conquest by Marc MorrisThe Normans in Sicily  by John Julius NorwichThe Guernsey Norman French Translations of Thomas Martin by MC Jones
Norman History And Philology
10 books — 1 voter

If we had enough data then this statistical approach would undoubtedly sort out these things, and a lot of problems are arising precisely because we haven't got enough documents for the statistical approach to be wholly valid. I know you can calculate levels of probability and so forth, but to establish this really clearly we want a lot more information than we have actually got available. This is surely our major problem that we are still at the very limits at which you can use a technique of t ...more
Jennifer K. McArthur, Place-Names in the Knossos Tablets Identification and Location

In grammar, as in war, there is strength in numbers.
Martin Worthington, Principles of Akkadian Textual Criticism

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