Historical & Comparative Linguistics

The investigation of language, of how (and what and why) signifiers signify, is prominent in modern critical work, but the questions being asked ar...

In this volume, which simultaneously honors the career contributions of Jean Berko Gleason and provides an overview of a broad and increasingly imp...

This book contributes to the understanding of first-language loss in both immigrant and indigenous communities in (at least) three ways. First, it ...

This book presents a current, interdisciplinary perspective on language requisites from both a biological/comparative perspective and from a develo...

Because developments in informal logic have been based, for the most part, on idealized and abstract models, the tools available for argument analy...

What is the relationship between the ideas of the Enlightenment and the culture and ideology of the French Revolution? This book takes up that clas...

Jenny Jochens captures in fascinating detail the lives of women in pagan and early Christian Iceland and Norway—their work, sexual behavior, marria...

Oral epic poetry is still performed by Turkic singers in Central Asia. On trips to the region, Karl Reichl collected heroic poems from the Uzbek, K...

This bold and accessible study of human languages and communication explores issues which are at the forefront of today's globalized society. The ...

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Reprint of the second (1939) edition of the work that is still the standard source-book of the Anglo-Indian language.

An Introduction to American English explores American English in the context of American history and institutions, while also making comparisons wi...

Explanations and accounts of our own origins have become one of the most popular of all the areas in science that are now regularly brought into th...

When the Gypsies first arrived in the British Isles, sometime in the second half of the fifteenth century, they brought with them their own languag...

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This book builds on the success of Glanville Price's The Languages of Britain, published in 1984, which was widely acclaimed as the most lively, re...

In this detailed survey of Finnish, Hungarian, Lapp and the other Uralic Languages, Angela Marcantonio shows there is in fact no scientific evidenc...

This provocative volume investigates the origins of contemporary African American Vernacular English (AAVE), one of the oldest, yet unsolved, quest...

Much scholarly work assumes that the structure of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) derives from an earlier plantation creole. This volume...

This book builds on the success of Glanville Price's The Languages of Britain, published in 1984, which was widely acclaimed as the most lively, re...

A collection of essays dealing with the fundamental issues in the study of dialect. This text offers critiques of orthodox views about dialect and ...

Noam Chomsky's work has had a decisive influence on the development of linguistics and more broadly on the study of mind and language. This book, w...

With over 30,000 entries, Chambers Dictionary of Etymology is a prestigious and scholarly dictionary that explains where English words come from. A...

A heart-warming Cockney saga from multi-million copy seller Mary Jane Staples. Perfect for fans of Maggie Ford, Kitty Neale and Katie Flynn. You wo...

A language develops over time, it develops in a child, and the capacity for language has evolved in the human species.

This book traces the remarkable reconfigurations that English lexis has undergone in the past millennium. The vocabulary is studied as an indicator...

This study of the history of reading goes from the earliest examples of the clay tablets and cuneiform of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt via the inv...

This work provides the first truly comprehensive and systematic reconstruction of proto-Afroasiatic (proto-Afrasian). It rigorously applies, throug...

We rarely speak or even write in the complete sentences that are often held to be the ideal form of linguistic communication. Language is, in fact...

Beginning with the anthropological linguistic tradition associated primarily with the names of Franz Boas, Edward Sapir and their students and conc...

The second edition of this hugely successful textbook provides comprehensive coverage of a wide range of topics in theoretical and applied linguist...

In this student-friendly text, Jones and Singh explore the phenomenon of language change, with a particular focus on the social contexts of its occ...

The focus of this study is upon those pidgins and creoles which are English based and which have arisen since the fifteenth century. The book exami...

First published in 1985, this book brings together recent work on women and children from the nineteenth-century to the present. The contributors e...

This volume focuses on early modern Italy and some of its key multilingual zones: Venice, Florence, and Rome. It offers a novel insight into the in...

The 'story' of English is continually re-told and re-written, as more and more people use the language and have a part in shaping the way it develo...

Problems and Perspectives- Studies in the Modern French Language looks at a number of interesting or problematic areas in the phonology, morphology...

'Superb'Spectator'Consistently entertaining'Independent'Impressive and sage'New Statesman'Bragg's affection for his subject is infectious'ObserverE...

First published in 1937, this book supplies a history of the living growth of the English language from Old English to the medieval period. It offe...

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

A History of the Spanish Language through Texts examines the evolution of the Spanish language from the Middle Ages to the present day. Pountain ex...

Basque is the sole survivor of the very ancient languages of Western Europe. This book, written by an internationally renowned specialist in Basque...