Historical & Comparative Linguistics

Medievalists have denied the historical existence of King Arthur for over 50 years. Arthur and the Languages of Britain demonstrates how linguistic...

This book provides crucial reading for students and researchers of world Englishes. It is an insightful and provocative study of the forms and func...

The Hittite language is the earliest preserved member of the Indo-European family of languages. It was written on clay tablets in central Asia Mino...

This is the first comprehensive linguistic study for 50 years of the stones from western Britain and Brittany, inscribed in the Roman and Irish Oga...

The Hittite language is the earliest preserved member of the Indo-European family of languages. It was written on clay tablets in central Asia Mino...

This standard text, now in paperback for the first time-- the companion volume to Foreign Dialects-- AmericanDialects offers representative dialect...

The Hittite language is the earliest preserved member of the Indo-European family of languages. It was written on clay tablets in central Asia Mino...

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Jenny Jochens captures in fascinating detail the lives of women in pagan and early Christian Iceland and Norway—their work, sexual behavior, marria...

Reading, like any human activity, has a history. Modern reading is a silent and solitary activity. Ancient reading was usually oral, either aloud, ...

With the recent controversy in the Oakland, California school district about Ebonics—or as it is referred to in sociolinguistic circles, African Am...

Growing out of an International Society of the Study of Behavioral Development-sponsored symposium, this book discusses the basic assumptions that ...

Professor Spalding's Historical Dictionary of German Figurative Usage has been appearing in separate fascicles since 1952. The work presents inform...

The idea that there once existed a language which perfectly and unambiguously expressed the essence of all possible things and concepts has occupie...

A History of the Spanish Language through Texts examines the evolution of the Spanish language from the Middle Ages to the present day. Pountain ex...

A History of the German Language Through Texts examines the evolution of German, from the Early Medieval period to the present day.Written in a liv...

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Syntax and Semantics of the Perfect Active in Literary Koine Greek incorporates linguistic insights from both neo-Davidsonian and Chomskyan tra...

Careful writers and speakers agree that clichés are generally to be avoided. However, nearly all of us continue to use them. Why do they persist in...

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The focus of this study is upon those pidgins and creoles which are English based and which have arisen since the fifteenth century. The book exami...