Historical & Comparative Linguistics

This title deals with dialect death and the attrition of specifically local lexis in traditional dialects. Over the last half century many scholars...

This textbook introduces and explains the fundamental issues, major research questions, and current approaches in the study of grammaticalization -...

Containing thousands of examples of hipster slang drawn from pulp novels, classic noir and exploitation films, blues, country and rock''n''roll lyr...

The colour coded verb table allows the reader to focus all of their attention on one colour tense at a time enabling them to make immediate connect...

Project Success is a new six-level, four-skills series with a strong focus on workplace skills and 21st-century challenges. Geared toward adults an...

At the time of its publication, How Language Began received high acclaim for capturing the fascinating history of mankind''s most incredible creati...

Origins of Language: A Slim Guide offers a concise and accessible overview of what is known about the evolution of the human capacity for language....

Classica et Mediaevalia encourages scholarly contributions within the fields of Greek and Latin languages and literature up to, and including, the ...

There are no men so dull and stupid, not even idiots, as to be incapable of joining together different words, and thereby constructing a declaratio...