Historical & Comparative Linguistics

This book explores one of the richest dialect families in the world: Chinese dialects. It covers all aspects of Chinese dialectology, from descript...

Identity and Dialect Performance discusses the relationship between identity and dialects. It starts from the assumption that the use of dialect is...

Only one hermeneutical text published prior to the New International Dictionary of Old Testament Theology & Exegesis can be held up reasonably ...

Applicative Arguments: A Syntactic and Semantic Investigation of German and English presents formal semantic and syntactic analyses of German and E...

Chinas past and present have been in a continuous dialogue throughout history, one that is heavily influenced by time and language: the temporal or...

This book is a selection of papers presented at the 11th International Conference on Middle English (ICOME11), held at the University of Florence, ...

Understanding Linguistic Fieldwork offers a diverse and practical introduction to research methods used in field linguistics. Designed to teach stu...

Is English changing? To what degree is it changing? Is this change good or bad? In answering these questions, Is English Changing? provides a livel...

This celebrated work by one of the foremost experts in Indo-European and Classical linguistics is now available in a fully revised second edition, ...

The book offers the first full-scale focused treatment of linguistic indexicality as a tool for analysis and explanation of the organization of lin...

In languages with aspect-based split ergativity, one portion of the grammar follows an ergative pattern, while another shows a split. In this book,...

This new five-volume anthology of major works has been produced in consultation with an editorial advisory board of distinguished scholars. It brin...

Alliteration occurs in a wide variety of contexts in stress-initial languages, including Icelandic, Finnish and Mongolian. It can be found in Engli...