Historical & Comparative Linguistics

At a time when medieval studies is increasingly concerned with historicizing and theorizing its own origins and history, the development of the stu...

The Upper Peninsula of Michigan—known as “the U P”—is historically, geographically, and culturally distinct. Struggles over land, labor, and langua...

As fans of Just a Minute know, the key to the game is knowing your way around the English language: how it works, how it’s evolved, and how words c...

This is the extensive legacy of grime, as told by a pioneer of the scene. With vivid imagery from Roony’s archive...

Death and Life in Colonial Nahua Mexico presents seven dramas from the first truly American theater. Composed in Nahuatl during the sixteenth and s...

Despite centuries of intertribal contact, the American Indian peoples of northwestern California have continued to speak a variety of distinct lang...

This book offers an accessible introduction to the main issues in language policy today, and to the origins and conceptual foundations of the relat...

New Perspectives on English Word Stress explores the mechanism of word stress assignment in contemporary English from different methodological and ...

This book applies an SFL-inspired, multi-dimensional approach to Latin linguistics, offering fresh insights into Latin narrative tenses while addre...

This book offers an accessible introduction to the main issues in language policy today, and to the origins and conceptual foundations of the relat...

We invite folks from the outer precincts and other foreign parts to lend an ear to what four centuries of southern talk have wrought, Roy Wilder Jr...

In this volume Cleanth Brooks pays tribute to the language and literature of the American South. He writes of the language's unique syntax and its ...

The ten essays in The Crucible of Carolina explore the connections between the language and culture of South Carolina's barrier islands, West Afric...

This morphological study is designed to show the transformation from Latin verbs into the Old and Modern Italian verbal system. The work is inspire...

“Now and then,” writes Lionel Trilling, “it is possible to observe the moral life in process of revising itself.” In this new book he is concerned ...

This book gives an overview of the development of the evolution of language through a philosophical lens, and is a culmination of research combinin...