Historical & Comparative Linguistics

This in-depth study of the use of pragmatic markers by Spanish and English teenagers offers insight into the currently under-investigated area of t...

This book presents an account of object shift, a word order phenomenon found in most of the Scandinavian languages where an object occurs unexpecte...

An interdisciplinary synthesis that offers a new understanding of childhood in the Middle Ages as a form of master-servant relation embedded in an ...

Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early s...

Were Stone-Age languages really more complex than their modern counterparts? Was Basque actually once spoken over all of Western Europe? Were Welsh...

This volume makes a vital and original contribution to a topic that lies at the intersection of the fields of history, anthropology, and linguistic...

Written entirely in Spanish, this is the ideal introduction to Spanish linguistics for students. Using clear explanations, it covers all the basic ...

WINNER OF THE EASTERN EYE AWARD FOR NON-FICTION'A brilliantly enlightening book'Michael Rosen'A kaleidoscopic portrait of the UK'Irish Times'I cann...

Asyndetic coordination (omission of coordinators such as 'but', 'or', 'and') is ancient in Indo-European languages. Most commentaries on Greek and ...

In Piros and Prehistory, David Leedom Shaul turns his attention to the Piro language, once spoken by the people of the Piro pueblos in New Mexico b...

This book brings together 12 previously unpublished language profiles based on the original Language Assessment, Remediation and Screening Procedur...

This book is a detailed examination of social connections to language evaluation with a specific focus on the values associated with both prescript...

This volume provides the first comprehensive reference work in English on the French language in all its facets. It offers a wide-ranging approach ...

A Glossary of Old Syrian: lz is the second of two volumes that aim to map the lexicon of Old Syrian as it can be extracted and reconstructed from t...

This volume presents the most comprehensive overview in English of the languages of the Central Andes, spoken primarily in Peru and Bolivia. Effort...