Historical & Comparative Linguistics

The Jamaican patois is spoken all over the world, wherever Jamaicans get together for a chat or a song. It contains elements of African languages, ...

This book primarily provides a detailed description and interpretation of one of the most fascinating and poorly understood processes in English ac...

An amazing number of the words we use today were invented in the First World War. They provide a unique insight into the experience of the war and ...

Methods of linguistic data collection are among the most central aspects in empirical linguistics. While written questionnaires have only played a ...

Methods of linguistic data collection are among the most central aspects in empirical linguistics. While written questionnaires have only played a ...

What's ILL in one place can be WACK in another, or the same word can actually have TOTES different meanings. It's CRAY CRAY! From KEWL girls hitti...

This new edition of the Luath Scots Language Learner featuring updated information is suitable as an introductory course or for those interested in...

Australians pride themselves on being easy-going and informal. Their vocabulary with its colour, humour and inventiveness reflects these qualities....

Using W. Von Wartburg''s critical bibliography of dialect and patois as a key reference, this work brings together examples of words derived from L...

With this fifth volume of the Dictionary of American Regional English, readers now have the full panoply of American regional vocabulary, from Adam...

The International Conference on Historical Linguistics has always been a forum that reflects the general state of the art in the field, and the 200...

Temporality surveys the ways in which languages of different types refer to past, present, and future events, through an in-depth examination of fo...

Greek: A History of the Language and its Speakers, Second Edition reveals the trajectory of the Greek language from the Mycenaean period of the sec...

This volume drawn from the 20th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL, Edinburgh 2018) focuses on the role of language ...

The linker introduces (links) a variety of expressions into the verb phrase, including locatives, the second object of a double object construction...

Were Stone-Age languages really more complex than their modern counterparts? Was Basque actually once spoken over all of Western Europe? Were Welsh...

This lively account of the making of Canadian English traces the variety's conceptual, social and linguistic developments from the twentieth centur...

In Grammars of Approach, Cynthia Wall offers a close look at changes in perspective in spatial design, language, and narrative across the late eigh...

This volume is part of a wider project aiming at mapping the technical medical terminology as it features in medieval Hebrew medical works, especia...

The nature of the Greek of the Septuagint has long been debated. Interference from the original Hebrew is present but scholars continue to disagree...

This book is the first of its kind on the socio-political history of Urdu. It analyses the historiography of the language-narratives about its name...

The processes of gemination, lenition, and vowel lengthening are central to the study of phonology, as they reveal much about the treatment of quan...