Historical & Comparative Linguistics

The volume is a selection of papers presented at the International Conference on Foreign Influences on Medieval English held in Warsaw on 12-13 Dec...

The book’s principal argument is that the concepts of Cognitive Linguistics offer considerable explanatory potential which can be systematically us...

This book is a discourse-pragmatic study of media language in news headlines and leads. News is viewed as discourse in action largely influenced by...

Including both synchronic and diachronic approaches, the essays pay tribute to one of Hans Sauer’s main specialist fields, namely English lexicogra...

This unique dictionary presents popular slang names for North American cities. These expressions are used instead of official names to convey addit...

The essays in this collection demonstrate that much can be learned from studying features such as word-division, printer’s type, and spelling conve...

This is the first book-length study that, from a typological perspective, deals with the latest phonological changes which have affected the spoken...

This publication constitutes a selection of papers presented at the 6th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech, New S...

This investigation is a qualitative analysis of the etymological, the morphological and the semantic history of the Old English complex plant names...

This volume presents selected proceedings of a conference on ‘Europe and its Others’ held at St Andrews University in 2007. It seeks to explore the...

Research into varieties of Englishes around the world has received much attention from scholars. This book offers a new perspective from a cognitiv...

This book treats various areas of the phonetics, orthography, morphology, syntax, and lexica of artificial languages in an effort to determine what...

This book focuses on ambiguity in Troilus and Criseyde, one of Geoffrey Chaucer’s (1343?-1400) representative works. It examines systematically how...

This practical introduction to word history investigates every aspect of where words come from and how they change. Philip Durkin, chief etymologis...

The subject of the present book are literary anthroponyms and their translation. The examples, taken from English children’s literature of the Vict...

A political science approach integrates multidisciplinary case studies about culture and language from multiple perspectives. Culture and language ...

This volume offers a collection of papers which seek to provide further insights into the way scientific and technical knowledge is communicated (i...

This volume examines variation in vowel configurations in African American English as spoken by members of seven U.S. communities, including Roanok...

Historical Linguistics - the study of language change - is a major field in linguistics. With its long history and numerous subfields of its own, H...

Over the past few decades, Singapore English has been emerging as an independent variety of English with its own distinct style of pronunciation, g...

This book is a descriptive account of English as it is used in India. Indian English is a second language to most of its speakers. In its 400-year ...

This book is a descriptive account of English as it is used in India. Indian English is a second language to most of its speakers. In its 400-year ...

Historical Linguistics - the study of language change - is a major field in linguistics. With its long history and numerous subfields of its own, H...

This book introduces Proto-Indo-European, describes how it was reconstructed from its descendant languages, and shows what it reveals about the peo...

Over the past few decades, Singapore English has been emerging as an independent variety of English with its own distinct style of pronunciation, g...

On the basis of a cross-linguistic study of more than 250 languages, this book brings to light several fascinating characteristics of pronouns. Dr ...

This book celebrates the rich diversity of the Scots language and the culture it embodies. It marks two important events in Scots language scholars...

Through rigorous study of historical texts, field research in communities throughout France and the U.S., and in-depth analysis of the cultural gro...

Once spoken only in Santa Rosa Department, Guatemala, the Xinkan language family is unique within Mesoamerica, comprising four closely related lang...

Southern Mǐn refers to a group of Chinese dialects spoken mainly in Southeast China and Taiwan. This group occupies a special position in the study...

Bridging the Grammar GapVoice, tense, mood, participles . . . learning biblical Greek is tough enough with a firm grasp of the building blocks of E...

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

Beginning with the stories of three great decipherments – Egyptian hieroglyphs, Minoan Linear B and Mayan glyphs – Lost Languages moves on to disse...