Language Contact

HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGE EVOLUTION --- This book provides an in-depth exploration of the processes that have shaped human language over millennia, integrating linguistic, archaeological, cognitive, and sociocultural evidence to illuminate the evolution of languages. Anchoring its analysis in historical linguistics, the book goes into the profound effects of migration, educational systems, trade, and technological innovations on language transformation. The bookunfolds with an examination of migration's necessary place in shaping linguistic territory, from the spread of Indo-...

They captured one alive. That was the mistake. The containment facility outside Manaus is a positive-pressure envelope built to keep a pathogen from getting out. What it was not designed for is a specimen that pours its own concrete, records its observations in resin and pheromone, and enters a maintenance state a virologist's protocol treats as cold storage. Dr. Constance Achterberg runs the forward biodefence element and needs the organism alive for the two answers the whole war has been about. Dr. Sunniva Halloran is reading the recovered log and does not yet know she is confidently ...

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In Children of God, Mary Doria Russell further establishes herself as one of the most innovative, entertaining and philosophically provocative novelists writing today. The only member of the original mission to the planet Rakhat to return to Earth, Father Emilio Sandoz has barely begun to...

She has twenty-four days of water. Home is thirty days away. And the alien walking beside her may be the first intelligent life humanity has ever found. When field chemist Juno Halloran crashes more than a thousand kilometres from humanity’s only settlement on the distant world of Aubade, survival becomes an equation she already knows she cannot solve. Then she meets Kite. Tall, strange, and utterly nonhuman, Kite follows Juno across a world of permanent dusk—helping her survive flares, predators, thirst, and a landscape no human was meant to cross. At first, Juno thinks Kite barely has...

The Gateway is closed behind them. The wavefront is at their heels. And the coordinates the alien light has given Leo Chen point somewhere no human survey has ever admitted existed. *Black Hole Odyssey Book 2* takes the *Phoenix* through a one-way transit into a Dark Matter World whose atmosphere the ship was not built to breathe and whose inhabitants Zira has no lexicon for. Lumen — plasmatic, crystalline, translating in light — is guiding them toward a home that has forgotten what home meant. In a canyon that has waited for this arrival longer than the Empire has existed, Leo will ...

Wishing Shelf Book Awards Red Ribbon (2025) — Global Book Awards Silver Medal (2025) — Readers Favorite Gold Medal (2026) Moonchild Irene Slade has nothing left to lose — not family, not home, not even the solace of blame. Alpha Centauri is far from no one she loves. When a disenfranchised pilot, kept at the margins of the mission’s briefings, has an encounter with an intelligent alien species, the result is catastrophic. Lives are lost. Truth is buried. And guilt becomes Irene's legacy. Among the dead was a friend... A sister... An aunt... So Irene bends protocol and invokes her ...

A mathematician decodes a message hidden in the universe's own fabric — and discovers the only way to answer it is to leave everything behind. Owen Sanchez spent eleven years working on a mathematical proof that nobody cared about. It turned out to be the only instrument capable of detecting a signal encoded in the universe's own spacetime — a message from four light-years away, transmitting for twelve years, waiting for exactly someone like him. The message is a question. The question implies a problem. The problem is this: the universe has a finite number of moments — the total ...

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The first in a “fresh” (Jason M. Hough, New York Times bestselling author) sci-fi space opera that follows a powerful planetary assassin who can destroy planets with a single word but is suddenly faced with an adversary that threatens the entire known universe. Far in the future, human...

At 2,100 metres, something was already counting them. Two hundred and forty-three days after Norway, Corporal Morrow is still on leave, still rereading the classified annotation file on what really happened there, still counting the days. At ten past three in the morning a courier brings the orders. In 1987, Project Hadal put six divers in a saturation station on a shelf of the Molloy Deep, the deepest trench in the Arctic Ocean. For ninety-four days they recorded something in the dark that was learning their instruments. Then the station went silent, and the report on the final contact was...

They died once already. They just don’t remember it. Hidden inside a physics-warping nebula, the survivors of the Nova Legio uncover a secret that unmakes everything they believed: a galaxy seeded with enslaved human legions, an ancient enemy that hungers to unravel all life, and a shadowy protector whose “Shadow Imperative” may be humanity’s only hope, or its final chain. In the series finale, Valerius and Livia face one last choice: serve a kinder master, or forge their own path toward a free and unconquered sun. Nova Legio: The Shadow Imperative is an epic Roman space-opera ...

Owen Hale is the only one who survived the crash. His crew, his ship, his only way of calling home, all of it is gone, twenty light-years from anyone who might come looking. So he does what he was trained to do. He works the problem. Air. Water. Power. A desperate, long-shot launch built from a piece of hardware never designed to carry anything heavier than a soil sample. When it fails, and the math runs out, and the silence on this planet starts to feel like it's never going to break, Owen has nothing left to try. He's alone out here. Genuinely, completely alone, with nothing but the ...

A Desolation Called Peace is the spectacular space opera sequel to A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine, winner of the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Novel. An alien terror could spell our end An alien threat lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with it, no one can...

They thought they were studying a shark. But something in the deep was already studying them. At a remote Pacific research station near Hawaii, marine biologist Liana Chadwick is assigned to track abnormal behavioral shifts in great white populations. What she finds is impossible—structured sonar patterns that resemble language, repeating across different sharks as if they are nodes in a single network. The deeper she listens, the clearer the truth becomes: the sharks are not the anomaly. They are the interface. Beneath the Pacific trenches, something vast has been evolving for decades—...

Three hundred years ago, a man named Aldous Crane knelt in a cell beneath Ironhelm and did something no one on either side of the threshold had ever done. He said no — and something vast, ancient, and utterly certain of its own claim actually listened. The Church erased his name for it. His reasons went into the ground with him. Ingrid arrives at Ironhelm to translate a language that isn't supposed to exist yet: a grammar built entirely out of patience, correction, and the shape of a closed fist. She isn't the only one running out of time to learn it. Brooke has spent two years working ...

Can You Read Minds Without Saying a Word? Have you noticed how some people easily earn respect, unlike others who have difficulty making an impression? How can we differentiate between those who seem trustworthy and those who don't upon first meeting? So, how do you spot a liar by simply watching their body language? Your body language is more powerful than your words. Your posture, expressions, and every move communicate powerfully to others. But most are unaware of the unconscious communication they transmit—or fail to decipher in others. Discover the captivating world of nonverbal ...

ENTANGLED TONGUES: A Short History of the English Language or The Influence of French on English The French point of view: “La langue anglaise n’existe pas. C’est du français mal prononcé.” (“The English language doesn’t exist. It is badly pronounced French.”) Georges Clemenceau...

The Three-Body Problem meets Annihilation in this epic science fiction novel by an astrophysicist, following an enclave of humans fighting for survival outside an alien megastructure, struggling to decode a cryptic language that will either return them to Earth or help them endure the savage...

On the frozen frontier of the Roman Empire, an entire cohort vanishes into the snow, and an ancient power beyond the stars is watching. Centurion Marcus Scaeva and the men of the legendary Ninth Legion have survived barbarian ambushes, brutal winters, and the long war for Rome. But the shimmer in the sky above the forest is no trick of the light. When first contact turns to abduction, the soldiers of Rome become specimens, and the long night begins. Where Stars Cast Roman Shadows is a sweeping blend of Roman historical fiction and alien-abduction science fiction — the opening book of The ...