Historical & Comparative Linguistics

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...

As the fifth volume of a multi-volume set on the Chinese language, this book studies the development of monosyllables and polysyllables in Middle C...

As the sixth volume of a multivolume set on the Chinese language, this book studies the influence of foreign culture on Middle Chinese lexicon and ...

As the seventh volume of a multi-volume set on the Chinese language, this book studies the Mongolian influence on neologisms in Modern Chinese and ...

Know your Arbroath smokies from your wynds, your trews from your sporran, and . . . lang may yer lum reek! Some say that Scots use more Scottish sl...

This edited book brings together studies on morphological case in Japanese, English, and Bantu languages, among others, from morphosyntactic, seman...

The dialects of English still spoken in Yorkshire, known collectively as Broad Yorkshire, Tyke or Yorkie, are both colourful and instantly recognis...

This book sets up a consistent theoretical and terminological framework for the study of the phenomena that are commonly subsumed under the terms t...

Primatology, Ethics and Trauma offers an analytical re-examination of the research conducted into the linguistic abilities of the Oklahoma chimpanz...

This volume provides an overview of all aspects of Hong Kong English in a style designed for undergraduates and general readers. As a former Britis...

This ambitious study of all proper names in the Chanson de Roland is based for the first time on a systematic survey of the whole geographical and...

The volume is a collection of papers which apply Role & Reference Grammar (RRG) to African languages. RRG is a functional theory of syntax whic...

This volume honors Dennis G. Pardee, Henry Crown Professor of Hebrew Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the U...

Die empirische Studie untersucht die gesellschaftliche Bedeutung von Dialekt und Dialektgebrauch in der Schweiz. Über interdisziplinäre Zugänge arb...

In dem vorliegenden Band Sprache und Religion Tendenzen und Perspektiven werden aktuelle Forschungsprojekte, empirische und methodologische Weiter...

This volume shines a light on the supposed tension between linguistic norm and variation in the early modern period by looking at early modern for...

The political shocks of the 2014 Ukrainian crisis have been felt in many former Soviet countries, not least Latvia, where over 35 per cent of the p...

By consequence of the Karabakh War in 2020 and due to Azerbaijanian revisionism concerning the history, culture and cultural monuments of the regio...

This book provides a thorough yet approachable history of the Scots language, a close relative of Standard English with around 1.5 million speakers...

Text patterns can be described in several interwoven dimensions. This volume looks at examples of empirical studies of historical text types to sho...