Historical & Comparative Linguistics

This edited book examines the multilingual culture of medieval England, exploring its impact on the development of English and its textual manifest...

Language isolates provide unique insights into human history and linguistic diversity. Nevertheless, isolates have been studied less exhaustively t...

A BRIEF HISTORY OF Ancient Greek Attested since the fourteenth century BC, and still spoken today by over 10 million people, Greek has been one of ...

This book explores gendered language and gender identities negotiated by seven tertiary students of Japanese as an additional language (JAL) in Aus...

Linguistic Explorations in Translation Studies provides an English translation of one of the first attempts made by a Chinese scholar to apply Hall...

Taiwanese, formerly the lingua franca of Taiwan and currently the second largest language on the island, is genealogically related to Min from the ...

Taiwanese, formerly the lingua franca of Taiwan and currently the second largest language on the island, is genealogically related to Min from the ...

A masterfully updated edition of The F-Word which renders a comprehensive portrait of English's most notorious and colorful word. No word has gen...

People from different places use different words for things, even everyday things such as carbonated beverages (e.g. soda, coke, pop) or bread roll...

Languages do not exist beyond their speakers, but the history of individual languages has often been told as if they had a life of their own, emerg...

Languages do not exist beyond their speakers, but the history of individual languages has often been told as if they had a life of their own, emerg...

This book comprises 20 chapters that have been divided into two distinct parts: language in educational contexts and language in cultural contexts....

Spoken by millions of people on four continents, Portuguese remains a lesser studied language. To help improve the linguistic understanding of this...

This volume collects ten studies that propose modern methodologies of analyzing and explaining language change in the case of various morpho-phonol...

There has been a growing awareness that ambiguity is not just a necessary evil of the language system resulting, for instance, from its need for ec...

As the fourth volume of a multi-volume set on the Chinese language, this book studies the lexical system of Old Chinese and the development of diff...

As the final volume of a multi-volume set on the Chinese language, this book studies the Western and Japanese influence on the lexicon of Modern Ch...