Historical & Comparative Linguistics

This volume presents the long-anticipated results of several decades of inquiry into the social origins and social motivation of linguistic change....

Examines the ways language has changed in the twentieth century. It concentrates on standard English and takes a historical rather than sociolingui...

This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the field of Persian linguistics, discusses its development, and captures critical accounts of cut...

The German comparative philologist Friedrich Max Müller (1823-1900) was one of the most influential scholars in Victorian Britain. Müller travelled...

This is an introduction to the history of languages, from the distant past to a glimpse at what languages may be like in the distant future. It loo...

Veteran presenter and football legend Bob Wilson conducts another engaging romp through sport's more colourful terminology. Why is fighting in a sq...

This second edition of The History of the English Language- A Sourcebook provides a comprehensive and accessible guide to the origins and developme...

This is the comprehensive collection of sport's strangest terms encountered in the 50-year career of one of British sport's greatest sages.Have you...

This accessible text is split into 2 halves. Initially, Janet Townend takes the reader through the early development and the structure and usage of...

Every language has its peculiar problems of meaning for the foreign learner. In the English language, some of the biggest yet most fascinating prob...

The contributors to this volume cover the international range of scholarship in the field of Historical Linguistics, as well as some of its major t...

This volume comprises refereed papers and abstracts of the 8th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EVOLANG8), held in Utrecht on...

The 'story' of English is continually re-told and re-written, as more and more people use the language and have a part in shaping the way it develo...

This impressive volume provides a chronological, narrative account of the development of American English from its earliest origins to the present ...

Global English Slang brings together nineteen key international experts and provides a timely and essential overview of English slang around the wo...

Endangered Languages in the 21st Century provides research on endangered languages in the contemporary world, the challenges still to be faced, the...

Code-Choice and Identity Construction on Stage challenges the general assumption that language is only one of the codes employed in a theatrical pe...

This book presents a typological overview of the case system of Eastern Indo-Aryan (EIA) languages. It utilizes a cognitive framework to analyse an...

As an important introduction to the phonological history of Chinese, this title explores the phonological systems of the Chinese language and expla...

This book draws on a framework of enregisterment and indexicality to chart the ways in which the Yorkshire dialect came to be associated with parti...

This collection explores the relationships between theory and evidences in functional linguistics, bringing together perspectives from both establi...

Winner of the 2020 ESSE Book Award in English Language and LinguisticsLexical Innovation in World Englishes contributes to the investigation of Wor...

As the second volume of a two-volume set that studies the Chinese rhyme tables, this book seeks to reconstruct the ancient rhyme tables based on th...