Historical & Comparative Linguistics

This volume is the first handbook devoted entirely to the multitude of frameworks adopted in the field of morphology, including Minimalism, Optimal...

This book offers a diachronic and synchronic account of the verb morphology and phonology of Aramaic from its initial appearance early in the first...

How have we come to depend so greatly on the words terror and terrorism to describe broad categories of violence? David Simpson offers here a philo...

How have we come to depend so greatly on the words terror and terrorism to describe broad categories of violence? David Simpson offers here a philo...

Latin names frequently unpronounceable, all too often wrong and always a tiny puzzle to unravel have been annoying the layman since they first be...

How was the complex history of Britain's languages understood by twelfth-century authors? This book argues that the social, political and linguisti...

This textbook provides a step-by-step introduction to the history of the English language (HEL), offering a fresh perspective on the process of lan...

This textbook provides a step-by-step introduction to the history of the English language (HEL), offering a fresh perspective on the process of lan...

'A glossary of colloquial Anglo-Indian words and phrases, and of kindred terms, etymological, historical, geographical and discursive.' Hobson-Job...

World Englishes presents a comprehensive, detailed survey of English as it is spoken all over the world. The volumes are organised into four groups...

How many languages are there? What differentiates one language from another? Are new languages still being discovered? Why are so many languages di...

This book presents a comprehensive account of features of Latin that emerge from dialogue: commands and requests, command softeners and strengthene...

This practical introduction to word history investigates every aspect of where words come from and how they change. Philip Durkin, chief etymologis...

This volume brings together current research in theoretical syntax and its interfaces in the Polynesian language family, with chapters focusing on ...

This book is a compilation of original poems (almost all in English) with their translations by Colin Sydenham into diverse Latin metres. In presen...

This book is intended as a Festschrift to honour the work of David Banks, Emeritus Professor of the Universite de Bretagne Occidentale, France. The...

In 2000, two linguistic endangerment experts, Nettle and Romaine, estimated that among the worlds 6000 languages, only about 600 could be considere...

What is the origin of the Romance languages and how did they evolve? When and how did they become different from Latin, and from each other? Volume...

How can we unravel the evolution of language, given that there is no direct evidence about it? Rudolf Botha addresses this intriguing question in h...

Slang, however one judges it, shows us at our most human. It is used widely and often, typically associated with the writers of noir fiction, teena...

How can we unravel the evolution of language, given that there is no direct evidence about it? Rudolf Botha addresses this intriguing question in h...

Even before the Helsinki Corpus was published, Spain had a good amount of Historical English researchers, such as the group directed by Teresa Fane...

The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages is the most exhaustive treatment of the Romance languages available today. Leading international scholars...

This introduction to Medieval Spanish, or Old Spanish, closes a long-standing gap in the literature. Focusing on the internal history of the Spanis...

Warren Maguire examines Mid-Ulster English as a key case of new dialect formation, considering the roles of language shift and dialect contact in i...

'Quite simply, and quite ridiculously, one of the funniest and most illuminating books I have ever read. I thought I was obsessive, but Keith Kahn-...

A New Yorker Best Book of 2022 A Globe & Mail Book of the Year A stimulating work on the politics of language. LA Review of Books As globalisa...