Historical & Comparative Linguistics

Coptic emerged as the written form of the Egyptian language in the third century, when Greek was still the official language in Egypt. By the time ...

In this highly original work, Steven A. Epstein shows that the ways Italians employ words and think about race and labor are profoundly affected by...

Spitzer discusses the method he evolved for bringing together the two disciplines, linguistics and literary history, and examines the work of Cerva...

This innovative introduction outlines the structure and distribution of the worlds languages, charting their evolution over the past 200,000 years....

This new five-volume anthology of major works has been produced in consultation with an editorial advisory board of distinguished scholars. It brin...

This new five-volume anthology of major works has been produced in consultation with an editorial advisory board of distinguished scholars. It brin...

A fresh translation of the Septuagint. The Lexham English Septuagint (LES) is a new translation of the Septuagint, the Greek version of the Old Te...

This book is designed to ease the beginner into competent reading of Old English texts. It presents the essential points of Old English grammar and...

This textbook introduces and explains the fundamental issues, major research questions, and current approaches in the study of grammaticalization -...

This volume studies three West Iranian language groups that are either undefined or have been scantly analysed. The first chapter, The Languages ...

The German sinologist and general linguist Georg von der Gabelentz (18401893) occupies a crucial place in linguistic scholarship around the end of ...

Spanish in Chicago is the first book-length study of Spanish in Chicago, where populations originating in both Mexico and Puerto Rico have lived in...

Spanish in Chicago is the first book-length study of Spanish in Chicago, where populations originating in both Mexico and Puerto Rico have lived in...

Why Hebrew, here and now? What is its value for contemporary Americans? In What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (and What It Means to Ameri...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platfo...

Thirty years ago Robert Kaster's Guardians of Language: The Grammarian and Society in Late Antiquity investigated ancient Greco-Roman grammarians a...

Why, when, and how did speakers of ancient Greek borrow words from Latin? Which words did they borrow? Who used Latin loanwords, and how? Who avoid...

English Vocabulary Elements draws on the tools of modern linguistics to help students acquire an effective understanding of learned, specialized, a...

From the moment a child in ancient Rome began to speak Latin, the surrounding world became populated with objects possessing grammatical gendermasc...

Trasks Historical Linguistics provides an accessible introduction to historical linguistics the study of language change over time. This engaging ...

Explores the growth of Englishes in a range of multilingual contexts Cutting edge case studies draw on spoken data from Uganda, Zanzibar, South A...