Historical & Comparative Linguistics

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

In this brisk and accessible history, sinologist Thomas O. Hollmann explains the development of the Chinese writing system and its importance in li...

This volume explores the rich and complex pattern of morphosyntactic variation in the Bantu languages, providing a comprehensive overview of the we...

How do families remain close when turbulent forces threaten to tear them apart? In this groundbreaking book based on more than a decade of research...

Heller and McElhinny reinterpret sociolinguistics for the twenty-first century with an original approach to the study of language that is situated ...

An Introduction to Middle High German is a dedicated student edition of The Oxford Guide to Middle High German (Jones & Jones; OUP, 2019) desig...

For anyone who has ever wondered why English is so weird, an entertaining and expert tour of the most puzzling parts of our language. Maybe you've...

Drawing on thousands of naturalistic online interactions from Ready to Go, a popular football message board centred on North East England, North Ea...

With researchers around the world are under increasing pressure to publish in high-profile international journals, this book explores some of the i...

In this ambitious work, Collin Jennings applies computational methods to eighteenth-century fiction, history, and poetry to reveal the nonlinear co...

This book proposes, examines and unpacks the notion of unequal Englishes as a way to understand English today. Unlike many studies on the pluraliza...

Varieties of English in the U.S. and Canada display fascinating developments from colonial times up until the twenty-first century. To throw light ...

This volume brings together the latest diachronic research on syntactic features and their role in restricting syntactic change. The chapters addre...

Creole Noise is a history of Creole, or 'dialect', literature and performance in the English-speaking Caribbean, from the late eighteenth century t...

The last major mine in the North East region closed in 2005 and with it went a way of life. Through dialect words, humour, stories and songs Pitmat...