Historical & Comparative Linguistics

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...

The Earliest English provides a student-friendly introduction to Old English and the earliest periods of the history of the English Language as it ...

This book explores the topics of English accents and pronunciation. It highlights their connections with several important issues in the study of E...

This book brings together linguistic and archaeological evidence of South Asian prehistory. The author depicts and analyses the region, in particul...

What do different concepts like true lie, bad luck, honest thief, old news, spacetime, glocalization, symplexity, sustainable development, constant...

This volume is a concise introduction to the lively ongoing debate between formalist and functionalist approaches to the study of language. The boo...

The relationship between the individual and the community is at the core of sociolinguistic theorizing. To date, most longitudinal research has bee...

This volume serves as a comprehensive introduction to Time Series Analysis (TSA), used commonly in financial and engineering sciences, to demonstra...

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...

Social processes and the nature of language variation have driven sibilant variation across the Spanish-speaking world. This book explores the curr...

This volume contains papers which reflect current discussions in the study of speech actions. The collection was inspired by the papers presented a...

This volume studies the ways in which modernity has been conceived, practiced, and performed in Indian literatures from the eighteenth to the twent...

New research expands the linguistic understanding of dialect contact in specific communities and individuals Dialect contact occurs whenever speak...

New research expands the linguistic understanding of dialect contact in specific communities and individuals Dialect contact occurs whenever speak...

This book deals with the category of converbs, whose denomination refers to a set of structures which cross-linguistically are not comparable. Spec...

Regions of the world with greatest biodiversity are shown to exhibit greatest linguistic diversity, strongly suggesting that the relationship betwe...

This is an engaging interdisciplinary guide to the unique role of language within ethnography.   The book provides a philosophical overview of th...

People in the Nordic states Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland rank as among the most proficient speakers of English in the world. In ...

What are the main similarities between new cohorts of Gaelic speakers in Nova Scotia and Scotland, and what key differences distinguish them? In Sc...

Power, Gender, and Mobility is situated at the intersection of diverse but complementary approaches to the investigation of prehistoric culture and...

During the first half of the twentieth century, a wide range of the Japanese populace was drawn to the possibilities offered by the proposed langua...

The present study is the first to apply a syntactic approach to the grammaticalization of Chinese modals, based on hypotheses on cross-linguistic d...

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...