Historical & Comparative Linguistics

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...

This book examines Spanish English bilingual patterns in a small town and rural Northeast Georgia community of Hispanics recently immigrated from M...

Haitian Creole is the creole language with the largest number of speakers: about ten million in Haiti and two million in diaspora communities in No...

Originally published in 1980, Language in Tanzania presents a comprehensive overview of the Survey of Language Use and Language Teaching in Eastern...

The Understanding Language series provides approachable, yet authoritative, introductions to all the major topics in linguistics. Ideal for student...

Biolinguistics is a highly interdisciplinary field that seeks the rapprochement between linguistics and biology. Linking theoretical linguistics, t...

In early Pennsylvania, translation served as a utopian tool creating harmony across linguistic, religious, and ethnic differences. Patrick Erben ch...

Coal mining, a prominent industry once situated at the heart of communities across the East Midlands, has now completely ceased in the UK. Although...

Lyle Campbell presents an accessible, hands-on introduction to historical linguistics one that does not just talk about the topics, but through pr...

Edinburgh (now the Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics), such as eLALME (the electronic version A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval En...

Edinburgh (now the Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics), such as eLALME (the electronic version A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval En...

With economic, political and cultural globalisation, our world is inseparable from the fates of other nations and peoples. But how far can we trust...

This monograph offers a novel investigation of the Edwardian picture postcard as an innovative form of multimodal communication, revealing much abo...

This book investigates three interesting questions arising from the intriguing cross-linguistic perspective of Meiteilon and Nyishi, two Tibeto-Bur...

From 'Howay, man!' to 'Haddaway!' become fluent in Geordie. Geordie, spoken in Newcastle and in Tyneside on the banks of the river Tyne in the coun...

This book unpacks a 30-year debate about the pluricentricity of German. It examines the concept of pluricentricity, an idea implicit to the study o...

This book presents a new reconstruction of Proto-Basque, the mother language of modern Basque varieties, historical Basque, and Aquitanian, grounde...

This book brings together for the first time a series of previously published papers featuring Ian Roberts pioneering work on diachronic and compar...

This groundbreaking collection showcases Jenny Cheshires influential work in bringing greater attention to quantitative analysis of socio-grammatic...