Historical & Comparative Linguistics

Kinship systems are the glue that holds social groups together. This volume presents a novel approach to understanding the genesis of these systems...

This book provides a comprehensive linguistic analysis of Khasi varieties, uncovering intricate regional variations. By meticulously comparing form...

By challenging assumptions regarding the proximity between Egyptian and Semitic Languages, Ancient Egyptian and Afroasiatic provides a fresh approa...

This book provides the most comprehensive and detailed formal account to date of the evolution of French syntax. It makes use of the latest formal ...

The book presents two fundamental theories that characterize the cultural-historical perspective in cognitive semantics: the Four-Level Theory of C...

The Hittite Etymological Dictionary is a comprehensive compendium of the vocabulary of Hittite, one of the great languages of the Ancient Near East...

The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia: A Comprehensive Guide surveys the indigenous languages of Asias North Pacific Rim, Siberia, and adj...

Names are very powerful and significant, especially in the African context. Across societies, there is a universal, albeit taken-for-granted fact t...

In the early 1930s in Berlin, Germany, a group of leading Eastern European Jewish intellectuals embarked upon a project to transform the lives of m...

Europas Geschichte ist bis in die heutige Zeit geprägt von Mehrsprachigkeit und Sprachkontakt. Den multilingualen Praktiken der Vergangenheit, die ...

La Biblia es sin duda el texto más influyente de la historia cultural europea, con una profunda repercusión en variados campos del arte y el pensam...

This volume presents the most wide-ranging treatment available today of the Malayo-Polynesian languages of Southeast Asia and their outliers, a gro...

This volume presents twelve in-depth case studies that critically examine the ways in which historical linguistics and language change interact wit...

What follows when state institutions name historically oppressed languages as official? What happens when bilingual education activists gain the ri...

Sprachliche Äußerungen, seien es einzelne Wörter oder Texte, werden in der Regel intuitiv verstanden und hinsichtlich des Verständnisses herrscht i...

Das Germanische steht seit den Anfängen der indogermanischen Sprachwissenschaft im Verdacht, von Sprachkontakt betroffen zu sein, und zwar wegen st...

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

The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages is a wide-ranging reference work that explores the more than 550 traditional and new Indigenous languages ...

Though not without its rivals, Latin stood at the apex of Western culture from the Renaissance until relatively recently. Françoise Waquet offers a...

The story of how English became American -- and how it became Southern, Bostonian, Californian, African-American, Chicano, elite, working-class, ur...

The system that any language uses to express evaluations, judgments, estimations, and non-real situations tends to be complicated and poorly unders...

The Last Language on Earth is an ethnographic history of the disputed Eskayan language, spoken today by an isolated upland community living on the ...