Historical & Comparative Linguistics

Repetition is a fundamental cultural act that appears in all fields of human life and behavior, as well as in communication. This interdisciplinar...

This volume analyzes the fortune of books IV of Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca historica in the 15th and 16th centuries, based on the study of the f...

Loanwords in Italian, in particular in the language of sport, were subject to vehement replacement attempts during fascism (19221943). This study e...

Koloniale und Postkoloniale Linguistik / Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics (KPL/CPL) provides the platform for a new research program which is ...

The third edition of this successful textbook has been fully revised and updated.Essentials of Early English is a practical and highly accessible i...

Are you curious to know what all human languages have in common and in what ways they differ? Do you want to find out how language can be used to t...

This volume brings together contributions selected from papers delivered at the 21st International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (IC...

This volume brings together contributions selected from papers delivered at the 21st International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (IC...

Why did a rural dialect from the heart of Norwegian farm country win a national dialect popularity contest? What were the effects of this win, and ...

Why are you learning Zulu? When Mark Sanders began studying the language, he was often asked this question. In Learning Zulu, Sanders places his ow...

As the first volume of a two-volume set on the history of Chinese phonology, this book introduces the basics of the discipline and charts the histo...

As the second volume of a two-volume set on the history of Chinese phonology, this book studies the history of phonology from the Yuan dynasty unti...

The Oxford Handbook of Southeast Asian Englishes is the first reference work of its kind to describe both the history and the contemporary forms, f...

This open-access book presents standards which were developed by the Project for the Protection of Language Resources of China (PPLRC).  At presen...

This open-access book presents standards which were developed by the Project for the Protection of Language Resources of China (PPLRC).  At presen...

A lively and informative collection of fifty common Egyptian colloquial expressions and proverbs, this book is must for learners of Arabic, languag...

In Amazonian Quichua Language and Life: Introduction to Grammar, Ecology, and Discourse from Pastaza and Upper Napo, Janis B. Nuckolls and Tod D. S...

The Language of Russian Peasants in the Twentieth Century: A Linguistic Analysis and Oral History analyzes the social dialect of Russian peasants i...