Historical & Comparative Linguistics

Originally published in 1987, this thesaurus is concerned with the spoken languages of Africa. Languages are grouped into a relatively large number...

First published in 1933 (this edition in 1939), this book sees Partridge introducing the reader to the eccentric lexicographers Wesley and Captain ...

From abdabs to zit From pillock (14th century) to couch potato (20th century) From She'll be apples (Australia) to the pits (USA) This new collecti...

This book presents a comprehensive and critical overview of historical phonology as it stands today. Scholars from around the world consider and ad...

The Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morphology is intended as a companion volume to The Oxford Handbook of Compounding (OUP 2009) Written by distin...

Originally published in 1963, this was, and still is, the only Grammar to be published of the Margi language which is spoken by the people of the A...

TheHistory of Linguistics, to be published in five volumes, aims to provide the reader with an authoritative and comprehensive account of the attit...

This book describes the earliest reconstructable stages of the prehistory of English, focusing specifically on linguistic structure. It outlines th...

While it is accepted that the pronunciation of English shows wide regional differences, there is a marked tendency to under-estimate the extent of ...

From the middle of the twentieth century, dozens of medievalists and other performers have recorded early English. Many educational institutions al...

First published in 1986, this book focuses on Anaphoric relations in the English and French languages, a phenomenon that involves a complex interac...

Examines the ways language has changed in the twentieth century. It concentrates on standard English and takes a historical rather than sociolingui...

This book argues that the Indo-Europeanizing of Europe essentially began shortly before 1600 BC, when lands rich in natural resources were taken ov...

First published in 1988, this book explores the grammatical loss of gender in English. It demonstrates that from the end of the Old English period,...

Studies in Language and LinguisticsGeneral Editors- Geoffrey Leech, Department of Modern English Language, Lancaster University and Jenny Thomas, S...

Presenting new approaches and results previously inaccessible in English, the Routledge Handbook of Japanese Sociolinguistics provides an insight i...

First published in 1816 and revised in 1916, this edition of George Crabb’s English Synonyms contains the entirety of his most enduring work. The r...

The maps presented in this volume, first published in 1987, are based on the material of the Survey of English Dialects which was collected from ov...

This re-issue of Julian Franklyn's classic dictionary not only defines these expressions but also explains their origin and history. An introductor...

First published in 1980, this book questions many of the assumptions that have accumulated around the subject of intonation as it occurs in spontan...

This study, first published in 1990, presents a comprehensive description of the comparative constructions of Spanish and French, and shows that th...

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

This book advocates for a new model of describing the practices of language revitalization, and decolonizing the research methods used to study the...

'a truly authoritative short Italian grammar ... possibly the best concise account now available in any language' - The Times Literary Supplement '...

500 Common Korean Idioms is a useful learner’s tool that presents the 500 most commonly used Korean idioms in a clear and easy-to-follow manner. St...

The History of Early English provides an accessible and student-friendly introduction to the history of the English language from its beginnings un...

Like its predecessor, Dialects in Schools and Communities, this book illuminates major language-related issues that educational practitioners confr...

Like its predecessor, Dialects in Schools and Communities, this book illuminates major language-related issues that educational practitioners confr...

The Grammar of Knowledge offers both a linguistic and anthropological perspective on the expression of information sources, as well as inferences, ...

From the middle of the twentieth century, dozens of medievalists and other performers have recorded early English. Many educational institutions al...

In recent years, there has been an upsurge of interest in the processing of major East Asian languages such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean. These ...

The maps presented in this volume, first published in 1987, are based on the material of the Survey of English Dialects which was collected from ov...

First published in 1949 (this edition in 1968), this book is a dictionary of the past, exploring the language of the criminal and near-criminal wor...

First published in 1980, this book questions many of the assumptions that have accumulated around the subject of intonation as it occurs in spontan...

Linguistic Variation: Confronting Fact and Theory honors Shana Poplack in bringing together contributions from leading scholars in language variati...

This book, first published in 1933, examines the dialect of the people of Byers Green in County Durham. Orton explores the possible reasons behind ...

First published in 1939, this book provides a brief but comprehensive view of language in general, and of English and American language in particul...

First published in 1986, this book focuses on Anaphoric relations in the English and French languages, a phenomenon that involves a complex interac...

This book explores the topics of English accents and pronunciation. It highlights their connections with several important issues in the study of E...

Linguistic Variation: Confronting Fact and Theory honors Shana Poplack in bringing together contributions from leading scholars in language variati...

The Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morphology is intended as a companion volume to the Oxford Handbook of Compounding (OUP 2009), aiming to provid...

In 2014, the US marks the 50th anniversary of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, the basis for the Johnson administration’s escalation of American mili...

The Grammar of Knowledge offers both a linguistic and anthropological perspective on the expression of information sources, as well as inferences, ...

This important new study examines in detail a semantic-pragmatic pattern surrounding the basic verb 'acquire' in nearly 30 Southeast Asian language...

George Orwell coined the term ‘Newspeak’ for his novel 1984, the purpose of which was designed to shrink vocabularies and eliminate subtlety and nu...

This fascinating collection of traditional metaphors and figures of speech, groups expressions according to theme. The second edition includes over...