Historical & Comparative Linguistics

Illuminates the competing understandings of poison and power in the Atlantic world By the time of the opening of the Atlantic world in the fifteent...

This monograph aims to shed light on the linguistic endeavors and educational practices employed by 17th century Spanish Dominicans in their effort...

This monograph aims to shed light on the linguistic endeavors and educational practices employed by 17th century Spanish Dominicans in their effort...

Exploring Modern Greek as a Second, Foreign, and Heritage Language considers the diverse educational contexts within which Modern Greek is taught a...

This book facilitates constructive interdisciplinary dialogue among linguistics and philology specialists concerning various languages in Vietnam, ...

Global knowledge production increasingly happens through one particular language: modern Anglo English. What does the Anglocentric reliance of Eng...

Over the past 25 years, previously separate fields of linguistic research have moved closer together, resulting in constructive collaborations: Cog...

The dimensions of time and space fundamentally cause and shape the variability of all human language. To reduce investigation of this insight to ma...

This book deals with the Press in Brazil in its historical, social and cultural context, with particular attention being paid to the strategies of ...

The aim of this book is to provide a comparative analysis of intra- and inter- linguistic features, setting a benchmark for future typological stud...

This collection brings together studies on vernacular manuscripts in regional Chinese dialects such as Cantonese and Hokkien (South Fujian dialect)...

The Book of Proceedings features a selection of papers presented at the 54th Linguistics Colloquium: Linguistic Encoding / Decoding in Global Conte...

The book presents the results of an empirical study on the relationship between Afrikaans language, identity and ethnicity from the perspective of ...

Since the 1960s, Afro-Hispanic linguistics has produced vital knowledge at the intersection of African diaspora studies and Spanish sociolinguistic...

From fjords to mountains, schools of herring to herds of reindeer, Scandinavia is rich in astonishing natural beauty. Less well known, however, is ...

This book presents a systematic elaboration on Chinese literature and its criticism, with special reference to introducing the predominant role of ...