Historical & Comparative Linguistics

The Earliest English provides a student-friendly introduction to Old English and the earliest periods of the history of the English Language as it ...

This book explores the topics of English accents and pronunciation. It highlights their connections with several important issues in the study of E...

This book brings together linguistic and archaeological evidence of South Asian prehistory. The author depicts and analyses the region, in particul...

What do different concepts like true lie, bad luck, honest thief, old news, spacetime, glocalization, symplexity, sustainable development, constant...

This volume is a concise introduction to the lively ongoing debate between formalist and functionalist approaches to the study of language. The boo...

The relationship between the individual and the community is at the core of sociolinguistic theorizing. To date, most longitudinal research has bee...

This volume serves as a comprehensive introduction to Time Series Analysis (TSA), used commonly in financial and engineering sciences, to demonstra...

This book unpacks a 30-year debate about the pluricentricity of German. It examines the concept of pluricentricity, an idea implicit to the study o...

Social processes and the nature of language variation have driven sibilant variation across the Spanish-speaking world. This book explores the curr...

This volume contains papers which reflect current discussions in the study of speech actions. The collection was inspired by the papers presented a...

This volume studies the ways in which modernity has been conceived, practiced, and performed in Indian literatures from the eighteenth to the twent...

New research expands the linguistic understanding of dialect contact in specific communities and individuals Dialect contact occurs whenever speak...

New research expands the linguistic understanding of dialect contact in specific communities and individuals Dialect contact occurs whenever speak...

This book deals with the category of converbs, whose denomination refers to a set of structures which cross-linguistically are not comparable. Spec...

Regions of the world with greatest biodiversity are shown to exhibit greatest linguistic diversity, strongly suggesting that the relationship betwe...

This is an engaging interdisciplinary guide to the unique role of language within ethnography.   The book provides a philosophical overview of th...

People in the Nordic states Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland rank as among the most proficient speakers of English in the world. In ...

What are the main similarities between new cohorts of Gaelic speakers in Nova Scotia and Scotland, and what key differences distinguish them? In Sc...

Power, Gender, and Mobility is situated at the intersection of diverse but complementary approaches to the investigation of prehistoric culture and...

During the first half of the twentieth century, a wide range of the Japanese populace was drawn to the possibilities offered by the proposed langua...

The present study is the first to apply a syntactic approach to the grammaticalization of Chinese modals, based on hypotheses on cross-linguistic d...

In this book, Aidan Doyle traces the history of the Irish language from the time of the Norman invasion at the end of the 12th century to independe...

The encoding of motion event components is a central element in determining the nature of linguistic and conceptual representations underlying moti...

Written in response to a brutal ethnic conflict that shocked Europeans in the 1990s, post-Yugoslav literature addresses issues that are still perti...

The relationship between diachronic change and synchronic variation at the articulatory, auditory, acoustic and social level is one of the greatest...

First published in 1972, The Origin and Development of the Bengali Language (Vol. 3) is the updated supplement to the two-volume The Origin and Dev...