Historical & Comparative Linguistics

The study of letter writing is at the heart of the historical-sociolinguistic enterprise. Private letters, in particular, offer an unprecedented vi...

This volume presents some of the latest research in colour studies by specialists across a wide range of academic disciplines. Many are represented...

Hans den Besten (1948-2010) made numerous contributions to Afrikaans linguistics over a period of nearly three decades. His writings helped shift t...

This book is concerned with comparing morphological paradigms between languages in order to establish areal and genealogical relationships. The lan...

The papers in this volume aim at facilitating exchange between three fields of inquiry that are of great importance in historical linguistics: lang...

Greenbergs (1954) concept of a Khoisan language family, while heartily embraced by non-specialists, has been harshly criticized by linguists workin...

This monograph offers the first in-depth lexical and semantic analysis of motion verbs in their development from Latin to nine Romance languages S...

This volume discusses topics of historical syntax from different theoretical perspectives, ranging from Indo-European studies to generative grammar...

The articles in this volume examine a number of critical issues in grammaticalization studies, including the relationship between grammaticalizatio...

The Oxford Handbook of Pre-Roman Italy gives a comprehensive account of the peoples who lived on the Italian peninsula during the last millennium B...

The question of how language emerged is one of the most fascinating and difficult problems in science. In recent years, a strong resurgence of inte...

This book explains the competition in the complementation of Old English aspectual and manipulative verbs that arises between finite and non-finite...

Nahuatl Nations is a linguistic ethnography that explores the political relations between those Indigenous communities of Mexico that speak the Nah...

Nahuatl Nations is a linguistic ethnography that explores the political relations between those Indigenous communities of Mexico that speak the Nah...

This book challenges several assumptions commonly encountered in Japanese dialectology: that the pitch-accent analysis of modern Tky Japanese is an...

A spot-on guide to how and why Americans have become so bloody keen on Britishismsfor good or illThe British love to complain that words and phrase...

The Writing Power series is unlike most other writing textbooks. Rather than focusing on one area of writing, such as fluency, language use, academ...

The authors present a number of case studies, from the Middle Age to present time, about how the past has been made meaningful and relevant to peop...

This volume contains revised and, in some cases, extended versions of twelve of the fourteen lectures read at the conference on Early Germanic Lang...