Historical & Comparative Linguistics

This volume honors Dennis G. Pardee, Henry Crown Professor of Hebrew Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the U...

Die empirische Studie untersucht die gesellschaftliche Bedeutung von Dialekt und Dialektgebrauch in der Schweiz. Über interdisziplinäre Zugänge arb...

In dem vorliegenden Band Sprache und Religion Tendenzen und Perspektiven werden aktuelle Forschungsprojekte, empirische und methodologische Weiter...

This volume shines a light on the supposed tension between linguistic norm and variation in the early modern period by looking at early modern for...

The political shocks of the 2014 Ukrainian crisis have been felt in many former Soviet countries, not least Latvia, where over 35 per cent of the p...

By consequence of the Karabakh War in 2020 and due to Azerbaijanian revisionism concerning the history, culture and cultural monuments of the regio...

This book provides a thorough yet approachable history of the Scots language, a close relative of Standard English with around 1.5 million speakers...

Text patterns can be described in several interwoven dimensions. This volume looks at examples of empirical studies of historical text types to sho...

Professor Michael Meier-Brugger's distinguished and productive career in Greek and Indo-European historical linguistics finds fitting tribute in th...

This work is the first comprehensive description of Sumerian constructions involving a copula. Using around 400 fully glossed examples, it gives a ...

In this volume, nearly forty internationally recognized researchers have come together to celebrate the work of the famous Anatolianist and Indo-Eu...

Sociolinguistics provides a powerful instrument by which we can interpret the contemporary and near-contemporary use of language in relation to the...

Over thirty internationally recognized scholars have contributed these studies in honour of noted Anatolianist and Indo-Europeanist Norbert Oetting...

Kazuhiko Yoshida - Kazu to those who know him - has deservedly earned this wide-ranging volume as a tribute to his distinguished career in Anatolia...

Systeme zur Referenz auf Personen sind in den meisten deutschen Dialekten komplexer als im Standard. So werden in gut vernetzten dörflichen Sprechg...

Forty-one scholars from across the world join in celebrating the work of Brent Vine, whose prodigious oeuvre in Classical and Indo-European linguis...

The contributions in the edited volume deal with different aspects of language contact which were hitherto not or not sufficiently considered in l...