Historical & Comparative Linguistics

There has been a growing awareness that ambiguity is not just a necessary evil of the language system resulting, for instance, from its need for ec...

This innovative work highlights interdisciplinary research on phonetics and phonology across multiple languages, building on the extensive body of ...

This volume showcases previously unpublished research on theoretical, descriptive, and methodological innovations for understanding language patter...

Korangy and Sharifian’s groundbreaking book offers the first in-depth study into cultural linguistics for the Persian language. The book highlights...

In today’s global commerce and communication, linguistic diversity is in steady decline across the world as speakers of smaller languages adopt dom...

This collection consists of 15 articles by an international group of linguists and 7 essays by the editors, tackling a broad range of issues and re...

Drawing from the disciplines of cognitive science, Paleolithic anthropology, art history, and semiotics, Karen A. Haworth and Terry J. Prewitt offe...

In today’s global commerce and communication, linguistic diversity is in steady decline across the world as speakers of smaller languages adopt dom...

Danilo Marcondes argues that, contrary to a traditional view maintaining that language is not given any central role in early modern philosophy, th...

Esta monografía colectiva profundiza en las fórmulas de saludo y de despedida en diferentes lenguas románicas. Los dieciséis capítulos que constitu...

This volume offers a multidisciplinary approach to the study of language in relation to the subject of history. The British and American contribut...

Reported speech is a universal form across human languages. However, previous studies have tended to be limited because they mostly emphasize on th...

Dialect, Voice, and Identity in Chinese Translation is the first book-length attempt to undertake a descriptive investigation of how dialect in Bri...

This volume provides a concise overview of the diachronic development of composite predicates (CPs) in Late Modern English, offering clearer eviden...

As the first volume of a two- volume set that studies Chinese rhyme tables, this book focuses on their emergence, development, structure, and patte...

This collection presents a holistic picture of the sociolinguistic landscape in Bangladesh, offering a critical understanding of language ideologie...

Routledge Language Workbooks provide absolute beginners with practical introductions to core areas of language study. Books in the series provide c...

"This book is a collection of superbly crafted essays on some fundamental texts of modern and contemporary philosophy. All were first published els...

First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This essential new text provides a comprehensive, modern account of how the English language originated, developed, changed, and continues to morph...

This work is an investigation of the relation between prosodic structure, intonational structure and (some instances of) focus realisation in Europ...

African names are elaborately structured and contain more than one possible interpretation of meaning. They can associate one with family, location...