Historical & Comparative Linguistics

We humans learn our language and culture through the stories and rhymes of tales we learned as children. By learning the twenty-six most popular an...

Examines the major issues of language planning and policy in Japan, Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea and Vietnam, particularly those relati...

This book presents a new and controversial theory about dialect contact and the formation of new colonial dialects. It examines the genesis of Lati...

Con unos 20 artículos de investigadores/-as de Europa, de los Estados Unidos y de la República Dominicana, la presente obra interdisciplinaria e in...

This collection brings together contributions from both leading and emerging scholars in one comprehensive volume to showcase the richness of lingu...

In this book, the author examines the transformation of the Pacific language region under the impact of colonization, westernization and modernizat...

This book looks at native speaker varieties of English, considering how and why they differ in terms of their pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary a...

This book looks at native speaker varieties of English, considering how and why they differ in terms of their pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary a...

This book, now back in print having been unavailable for many years, is one of the most important contributions to Turkic and Mongolic linguistics,...

This volume is a selection of papers presented at the 9th International Conference on Middle English held at Wyższa Szkoła Filologiczna (Philologic...

A hands-on approach to historical linguistics, working through 101 problems in five different categories This workbook guides students through 12 p...

Corpus Linguistics for Vocabulary provides a practical introduction to using corpus linguistics in vocabulary studies. Using freely available corpu...

An Introduction to Middle English is designed to provide undergraduate students of English historical linguistics with a concise description of the...

The Dravidian language family is marked historically by a protracted struggle between Tamil and its aggressively assertive supremacy, and the conse...

This book discusses the correspondence between Jernej Kopitar, a co-founder of Slavic studies and proponent of Austro-Slavism, and Baron Žiga Zois,...

This book offers a collection of papers pertaining to the most thought-provoking problems in the areas of theoretical and contrastive linguistics. ...

In this book, the author presents that although various Old Romance grammars can be traced back to the common Latin ancestor, the functional domain...

The author researches selected synonyms of ‘skinny’ and ‘fatty’ in the history of the English language from the perspective of cognitive linguistic...

This book is a contribution to the study of the linguistic concept of gender. It focuses on the problem of assigning gender to animal nouns. This p...

This book presents empirical research of grammatical collocations of the type: verb and the prepositions «of» and «to». It is based on comparisons ...

This book is dedicated to the issue of animal metaphor together with its intricacies and internal complexity. Its main objective is to present a un...

In this book Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Graeme Trousdale develop an approach to language change based on construction grammar. Construction gramm...

This volume on language contact is a corpus-based descriptive and theoretical study of the Polish translations of English one- and multi-word polym...

History, archaeology, and human evolutionary genetics provide us with an increasingly detailed view of the origins and development of the peoples t...