Historical & Comparative Linguistics

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...

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...

An exploration of secret languages, moving among hermetic artificial tongues as diverse as criminal jargons and divine speech. Dark Tongues cons...

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to Proto-Indo-European, Balto-Slavic and Proto-Slavic accentology; a branch of diachronic linguistics...

This volume brings together eleven studies on the history of language and writing in the North Sea area, with focus on contacts and interchanges th...

Most of us are aware that words such as geometry, mathematics, phobia and hypochondria derive from ancient Greek, but did you know that marmalade, ...

Know someone with an antwacky stem-winder? Heard the Band of Hope Street? Ever been on a vinegar trip? Do you jangle? Ever met a Cunard yank in the...

We are fascinated by what words sound like. This fascination also drives us to search for meaning in sound - thereby contradicting the principle of...

Word order is one of the major properties on which languages are compared and its study is fundamental to linguistics. This comprehensive survey pr...

Afroasiatic languages are spoken by some 300 million people in Northern, Central and Eastern Africa and the Middle East. This book is the first typ...

Word order is one of the major properties on which languages are compared and its study is fundamental to linguistics. This comprehensive survey pr...

This dictionary is an indispensable guide to the study of the Latin Middle Ages. It records the continuing usage of classical and late Latin in thi...

This study is a phonetic description of intonation in Cameroon English, a postcolonial variety of English. Its focus is on the usage of specific to...

Although for some scholars the very possibility of syntactic reconstruction remains dubious, numerous studies have appeared reconstructing a variet...

What is the range of diversity in linguistic types, what are the geographical distributions for the attested types, and what explanations, based on...

ADOPT THE LANGUAGE OF LEADERS Whether youre new to the world or work, or you just want to brush up on your leader...

There''s a pyjama-clad woman from Brum,She''s a mostly-happy (sometimes-snappy) mum,She''s written some verse- it''s a little perverse -and she hop...

New edition of this bestselling and laugh out loud humour title. The almost incomprehensible wit and wonder of Irish slang words. Can you tell yo...

Audio recordings of English are available from the first half of the twentieth century and thus complement the written data sources for the recent ...

In this richly entertaining book, Jonathon Green traces the development of slang and its trajectory through society, and offers an impassioned argu...

This book was first published in 1925 and was intended to be a dictionary of first world war slang. In the 1920s, the war to end all wars was still...

This book explores the nautical history of some of our most common expressions in an entertaining and informative volume. As the crow flies'', ''c...

Examines the social functions of attitude dative pronouns in four Arabic dialects Analysing data from a variety of sources, including soap operas, ...

The Irish mix wit and wisdom the way they do whiskey and water, and to the same intoxicating effect. Irish wit is an art form that can be sage, ...

''If you''re up for an adventure through the back alleys of English, The Stories of Slang will not disappoint.'' Kory Stamper, Times Literary Suppl...