Historical & Comparative Linguistics

History, archaeology, and human evolutionary genetics provide us with an increasingly detailed view of the origins and development of the peoples t...

This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 8th International Conference of Middle English, held in Spain at the University of Murc...

This volume completes the first uniform edition of the Early Middle English Ancrene Wisse Group. It contains Sawles Warde from the Katherine Group,...

History and Development of the Arabic Language is a general introduction for students to the history of the Arabic language. It is divided into two...

This book offers a workbook approach to linguistics and provides guidelines for the study of language. It aims to give basic information and to ind...

Historical Sociolinguistics: Language Change in Tudor and Stuart England is the seminal text in the field of historical sociolinguistics. Demonstra...

This study analyzes the indicative and subjunctive da-complements in the Serbian language while comparing and contrasting them with similar finite ...

Bis dat, qui cito dat – never has a proverb more aptly applied to an individual than does this Medieval Latin saying to Wolfgang Mieder. «He gives ...

Language endangerment is a fundamental issue for humanity. What rights do minority communities have concerning their languages? How does each langu...

In this book, Aidan Doyle traces the history of the Irish language from the time of the Norman invasion at the end of the 12th century to independe...

This book dissiminates a selected collection of research texts from the Congress Hybrid Identities, held in 2011 in the Institute for Research into...

This book shows the evolution of the Concise Oxford Dictionary, a famous and innovative dictionary for native speakers of English. It traces change...

This volume of papers from the 14th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology, held at the University of Western Ontario (Canada), 2 to 6...

The fourteen essays presented here discuss the development of English during the Middle English period: how the language developed from Old English...

The Kets of Central Siberia are perhaps the most enigmatic of Siberia's aboriginal tribes. Today numbering barely 1,100 souls living in several sma...

History and Development of the Arabic Language is a general introduction for students to the history of the Arabic language. It is divided into two...

This book primarily examines verbal prefixes expressing aspectuality in the Old and Middle English periods, but it also takes a look at the post-ve...

This study is an investigation into the comparative phonology and lexicon of six barely-known Bantu varieties spoken in Kenya. These varieties (Ime...

A famous English hymn does not start with He who would be valiant, but He who would valiant be with valiant in dislocated position in the clause. T...

This book was shortlisted for the ESSE Book Awards 2014This volume investigates Left Dislocation (LD) in the recent history of English, especially ...

Migration as a process has achieved increasing attention in the context of nation-states and globalisation. In linguistics the field of language co...

The application of postcolonial theories to Irish literature remains a contentious issue. Unlike other colonised nations, Ireland shared a long his...

This volume presents selected contributions to an annual symposium on metaphor and metonymy held at the English Department of Heidelberg University...

The articles in this volume investigate everyday textual material of sociolinguistic landscapes in the early 21st century. Sociolinguistic landscap...

This textbook provides a detailed introduction to the study of Latin from the perspective of contemporary linguistics. It adopts some basic tenets ...

In this handbook, scholars from around the world offer an up-to-date account of the state of the art in different areas of onomastics, in a format ...

The study of opacity falls under the general programme of showing how the meaning of any complex sentence is composed from the meanings of its cons...

The book aims to recognize or reject English in Kenya as a new, emancipated variety of English developing in a multilingual environment of permanen...

This volume grew out of the 34th International LAUD Symposium, which was held in March 2010 at the University of Koblenz-Landau in Landau, Germany....

This study examines the range of culinary verbs found in the English culinary recipes of the 14th and 15th centuries. Altogether over 1500 recipes ...

This monograph is a study of words and expressions of emotion found in Old and Middle English texts. Lexical variety, rivalry among synonyms, both ...

The studies presented in this volume concentrate on different aspects of the medical, scientific and technical varieties of early English used in a...

This book explores a dialect contact situation in a second language setting – native speakers of English coming to Japan from different parts of th...

When people collaborate in professional contexts, and more specifically, when they communicate about and through products in business contexts, the...

The 21st-century global linguistic landscape has seen many changes for language learners. New assessments have been made in a host of areas, especi...

This collection of papers is a gift for all the members of the Japan Society for Medieval English Studies, who worked abroad under the direction of...

The volume, inspired by Professor Wełna’s life-long studies in historical linguistics, brings together scholars researching topics in various field...

Providing an ideal introduction to historical semantics, this book offers graduate students and advanced undergraduate students in linguistics and ...

The book is a study on intensifiers and reflexive pronouns between two languages (English and Mandarin Chinese) and the first one drawing a complet...

Beyond speculation, analysis and evaluation of different hypotheses, this collection of essays is an attempt to provide innovative and multidiscipl...

This book evaluates Noam Chomsky’s contributions to linguistics and focuses on the historical justification for Cartesian Linguistics, the evolutio...

The volume consists of reprints of papers originally published between 1967 and 2009, divided into two parts, only apparently devoted to two differ...

The book presents a collection of papers in English, French and German, which touch on a wide variety of cultural, political, and educational ramif...

This data-oriented study aims at providing an onomasiological account of the historical synonyms of the term fallen woman from Old English up to Ea...

Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Graeme Trousdale develop an approach to language change based on construction grammar. Construction grammar is a theor...