Historical & Comparative Linguistics

This book describes dialect differences in American English and their impact on education and everyday life. It explores some of the major issues t...

This book examines language and identity among White American middle and upper-middle class youth who affiliate with Hip Hop culture. Hip Hop youth...

This book describes dialect differences in American English and their impact on education and everyday life. It explores some of the major issues t...

Mayan civilization, renowned for its mathematics, writing, architecture, religion, calendrics, and agriculture, fascinates scholars and a wide lay ...

There are generally estimated to be between 4,000 and 6,000 languages in the world. This number alone gives an idea of the immense diversity of lan...

These essays were drawn from the papers presented at the Linguistic Society of America's Summer Institute at the State University of New York at O...

Bess of Hardwick's Letters is the first book-length study of the c. 250 letters to and from the remarkable Elizabethan dynast, matriarch and builde...

The Mayan family of languages is ancient and unique. With their distinctive relational nouns, positionals, and complex grammatical voices, they are...

Although the era of European colonialism has long passed, misgivings about the inequality of the encounters between European and non-European langu...

A title in the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.A Grammar of Southern P...

Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. A Native Americ...

2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andre...

Why Hebrew, here and now? What is its value for contemporary Americans? In What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (and What It Means to Ameri...

'Lively and fascinating. I loved it' David Bellos, author of Is That a Fish in your Ear? 'A history of the world in microcosm … I highly ...

Winner, A Choice Outstanding Academic BookWhen the Oakland, California, school board called African American English "Ebonics" and claimed that it ...

How and why did the academic style of writing, with its emphasis on criticism and correctness, develop? Seth Lerer suggests that the answer lies in...

This book studies the origins of language. It presents language as the product of a unique non-linguistic cognitive feature (i.e. metacognition) th...

How and why did the academic style of writing, with its emphasis on criticism and correctness, develop? Seth Lerer suggests that the answer lies in...

This timely volume constitutes the first book-length account of implicit as well as explicit language attitudes. It details the findings of a large...

Each of us bears a unique name given to us at birth. When people use your name, they typically refer to you. But what is the linkage that ties a na...

From the classical dialogues of Plato to current political correctness, manipulating language to advance a particular set of values and ideas has b...

This essential new text provides a comprehensive, modern account of how the English language originated, developed, changed, and continues to morph...

An account of the development of the Indo-European vowel system in its latest stages.

This book presents a series of illuminating studies which conclusively demonstrates that the prevailing conception of historical linguistics is dee...

Reading, like any human activity, has a history. Modern reading is a silent and solitary activity. Ancient reading was usually oral, either aloud, ...

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...

"As an introduction to how the history of an African society can be reconstructed from largely nonliterate sources, and to the Swahili in particula...

Pidgins and creoles have always attracted a great deal of interest - academic and otherwise - but in recent decades they have become increasingly i...

The German-Speaking World is an accessible textbook that offers students the opportunity to explore for themselves a wide range of sociolinguistic ...