Historical & Comparative Linguistics

Transforming Early English shows how historical pragmatics can offer a powerful explanatory framework for the changes medieval English and Older Sc...

Place has always been central to studies of language, variation and change. Since the eighteenth century, dialectologists have been mapping languag...

Introducing new findings from popular culture, the globalised new economy and computer-mediated communication, this is a fascinating study of conta...

Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century and - because many have never been recorded - when they're gone, it will...

Contributions from an international team of experts revisit and update the concept of linguistic ecology in order to critically examine current the...

Oscan was spoken in Southern Italy in the second half of the first millennium BC. Here, for the first time, all the evidence for the spelling of Os...

English historical linguistics is a subfield of linguistics which has developed theories and methods for exploring the history of the English langu...

Introducing new findings from popular culture, the globalised new economy and computer-mediated communication, this is a fascinating study of conta...

This innovative, investigative, and expansive handbook covers a multitude of angles through which the intricacies of Persian and its many dialects ...

This book traces the evolution of the Spanish language from pre-Roman days to the present and stresses the influence of social and political events...

The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English presents all the slang terms from The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang an...

The modern world began with the clash of civilisations between Spaniards and native Americans. Their interplay and struggles ever since are mirrore...

A groundbreaking new work that sheds light on case studies of linguistic human rights around the world, raising much-needed awareness of the strugg...