Historical & Comparative Linguistics

Diversity is a buzzword of our times and yet the extent of religious diversity in Western societies is generally misconceived. This ground-breaking...

Based on four historical corpora, the book is a comprehensive study of the demise of five preterite-present verbs in English. It offers a detailed ...

Ruanni Tupas presents rich insights into the inequalities of Englishes and the ways in which these inequalities shape and impact English and multil...

This book examines various aspects of Celtic linguistics from a general and more specific point of view. Amongst the topics investigated is the sys...

This collection explores the relationships between theory and evidences in functional linguistics, bringing together perspectives from both establi...

Diversity is a buzzword of our times and yet the extent of religious diversity in Western societies is generally misconceived. This ground-breaking...

The main purpose of the publication is to present a linguo-cultural picture of traditional values (such as the value of life, freedom, dignity, fam...

This book challenges the current consensus on the analysis of wh-questions and reflexives from the perspective of the syntax-semantics interface. A...

This popular lexical monograph is presented in the form of a dictionary with supporting quotations from contemporary texts, including newspapers, g...

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...

Linguistic Planets of Belief presents a way for people to notice, examine, and question the role language plays in identifying, recognizing, and un...

A lively, authoritative, and up-to-date look at the world of rhyming slang, from its origins in London's 19th-century underworld to the buzzwords o...

Appraisal is the way language users express their attitude towards things, people, behaviour or ideas. In the last few decades, significant achieve...

Copulas (in English, the verb to be) are conventionally defined functionally as a means of relating elements of clause structure, especially subjec...

This monograph offers an analysis of the lexical domain of beauty and other additional lexical domains that are figuratively used to refer to beaut...

Appraisal is the way language users express their attitude towards things, people, behaviour or ideas. In the last few decades, significant achieve...

The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology is the most comprehensive dictionary of the English language ever published. It is based on the original...

This book is the first comprehensive study of administrative reports. It investigates the reports prepared in the EU and national settings using a ...

Lexicology is about words, their meanings and the relationships between them, their origins and their structure. It combines the study of derivatio...

This volume provides a systematic comparative treatment of urban contact dialects in the Global North and South, examining the emergence and develo...

This book challenges the current consensus on the analysis of wh-questions and reflexives from the perspective of the syntax-semantics interface. A...

Reference to or quotation from someone's speech, thoughts, or writing is a key component of narrative. These reports further a narrative, make it m...

Dialectología hispánica / The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Dialectology es una obra coral que presenta las últimas investigaciones sobre las varie...