Historical & Comparative Linguistics

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...

This collection provides a broad account of variationist sociolinguistic research on varieties of German, with the goals to encourage greater geoli...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offere...

This book provides an in-depth typological account of the forms, functions, and histories of serial verb constructions. Serial verbs, in which seve...

This textbook provides a comprehensive scholarly introduction to Classical Chinese and its texts. Classical Chinese is the language of Confucius an...

Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. A Native Americ...

'Witty and erudite ... stuffed with the kind of arcane information that nobody strictly needs to know, but which is a pleasure to learn nonetheless...

Zhangs book focuses on the analysis of the sociohistorical context, linguistic patterns of discursive construction, and media representations of th...

This book presents the findings from original research about court interpreting in the disciplines of humanities and social sciences from a linguis...

The elegant pen-strokes and visual harmony of Chinese writing have long been admired in the west. Classical Chinese calligraphy is a popular and va...

An exhilarating new account of the English language, from British colonialism to the age of social media, emphasizing dynamism and democratization ...

The Indigenous Languages of the Americas takes stock of what is known about the history and classification of these languages and language families...

This illuminating book critically examines multicultural language politics and policymaking in the Andean-Amazonian countries of Ecuador, Peru, and...

Since its publication in 2007, A Brief History of the Spanish Language has become the leading introduction to the history of one of the world's mos...

The origins of Basque dialects, a highly disputed area of research in Basque studies, are examined. The author, the foremost expert on Basque diale...

The annual Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference provides a forum for research, particularly through comparative study, of both languages. This ti...

This volume is the first to present a detailed survey of the systems of verb-verb complexes in Asian languages from both a synchronic and diachroni...

'In terms of a non-fiction account of how historical and contemporary language has been shaped by women, I really recommend lexicographer Jonathon ...