Historical & Comparative Linguistics

The (potential) use of gender-inclusive language is being discussed controversially in the public sphere. Opinions on it have increasingly been voi...

The dispersal of the Indo-European language family from the third millennium BCE is thought to have dramatically altered Europes linguistic landsca...

'A whirlwind tour of the joys of English, by the master of concision and wit. Susie DentGyles is very funny and never lost for words! Dame Judi ...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platfo...

The book is a comprehensive corpus study of analogical developments in the nominal morphology of four Northern West Germanic languages: Old English...

'His cornucopia of tellers and tales is a delight, a riveting celebration of a genre that revels in its own hybridity and the imaginative riches pr...

This volume features fourteen papers by leading specialists on various aspects of historical morpho-syntax in the Ibero-Romance languages. In these...

'His cornucopia of tellers and tales is a delight, a riveting celebration of a genre that revels in its own hybridity and the imaginative riches pr...

This collection charts the evolution of grammatical variation in Englishes from Late Middle English to the present, using corpus linguistic tools t...

The book scrutinizes the language of Polish-origin Highlanders living in CarpathianBukovina. Krasowska has personal, direct knowledge of the life, ...

This volume draws together fourteen previously published papers which explore the nature of mental grammar through a formal, generative approach. T...

This book provides an in-depth typological account of the forms, functions, and histories of serial verb constructions. Serial verbs, in which seve...

This book examines grammatical changes that took place in the medieval language contact situation between English and French from 1066 until 1500. ...

Linguistic contact is a reality of everyday life, as speakers of different languages come into contact with one another, often causing language cha...

Linguistic contact is a reality of everyday life, as speakers of different languages come into contact with one another, often causing language cha...

This volume applies a diachronic perspective to the verb and mainly deals with typological change affecting tense, aspect, mood and modality in a v...

This collective volume focuses on the crucial role of formal evidence in recognizing and explaining instances of grammaticalization. It addresses t...

This advanced historical linguistics course book deals with the historical and comparative study of African languages. The first part functions as ...

This collective volume focuses on the latest developments in the study of grammaticalization and related processes of change such as degrammaticali...

This advanced historical linguistics course book deals with the historical and comparative study of African languages. The first part functions as ...

This book examines the interesting linguistic phenomenon of blending, where new words are formed to enrich the lexicon of a language. Blending in E...

The focus of this volume is on the relation between synchrony and diachrony. It is examined in the light of the most recent theories of language ch...