Historical & Comparative Linguistics

This volume provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of how archaeology, genes, and language can be combined to shed light on the human pas...

One of the rather neglected fields of Late Modern English studies is English Dialectology. This volume includes sixteen papers based on presentatio...

This book summarizes scholarly achievements of the author by confronting two descriptive models of linguistic research. Against the background of a...

This study is the first of its kind to analyse the representation of Irish English in film. Using a corpus of 50 films, ranging from John Ford’s Th...

This book is written for students of English who are interested in the history of the language and would like to read an accessible but also compre...

A kinship term is defined as a lexical item which is used to name a person who is connected by certain blood relations with other persons or a grou...

The articles collected in this volume offer the most various access to the discussed questions on norm and variation. In their entirety, they refle...

This volume presents a textbook on German grammar written by Francis (Franz) Lieber in 1835. Persecuted in Germany for his revolutionary views, Lie...

This book examines the language studies of Western missionaries in China and beyond. The goal of this study is to examine the purpose, methods, con...

This collection reflects Minoji Akimoto’s concern with studies of change in English that are theoretically-informed, but founded on substantial bod...

Contents: Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk/Katarzyna Dziwirek: Emergence of Cognitive Corpus Linguistics – Piotr Pęzik: Extraction of multiword expre...

Zikh Rasna is a comprehensive description of Etruscan grammar and inscriptions designed for classicists, linguists, archaeologists, and interested ...

Ce volume rassemble les communications de la section « Pragmatique historique et syntaxe » qui ont été tenues dans le cadre du XXXIe Romanistentag ...

This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Medieval English Studies Symposium held in Poznań, Poland, in November 2008. The papers...

The two manuscripts of the early Middle English chronicle Laʒamon’s Brut, British Library MS Cotton Caligula A ix and British Library MS Cotton Oth...

Junk English 2 combines basic advice — peppered with contemporary examples of alarmingly common verbal atrocities — with entertaining invective. Ba...

Die Beiträge dieses Bandes fokussieren methodische und theoretische Probleme in sprachwissenschaftlichen Bereichen, in denen Norbert Dittmar in sei...

Originally presented at the second in the newly-launched series of International Conferences on English Historical Dialectology, held at the Univer...