Historical & Comparative Linguistics

What could Greek poets or Roman historians say in their own language that would be lost in translation? After all, different languages have differe...

This pack contains everything you need to learn the original language of the Old Testament, no matter if you are already enrolled in a class or lea...

A Dictionary of Varieties of English presents a comprehensive listing of the distinctive dialects and forms of English spoken throughout the contem...

Most of us know of the Indo-European roots of European languages, but how did this precursor language take hold and what did Europe look like befor...

The ideal gift for anyone interested in language, geography and people. We communicate through the spoken and written word and language h...

Languages change and they keep changing as a result of communicative interactions and practices in the context of communities of language users. Th...

This volume offers a coherent and detailed picture of the diachronic development of verbal categories of Old English, Old High German, and other Ge...

The studies in Language Change in Contact Languages showcase the contributions that the study of contact language varieties make to the understandi...

From late antiquity through to the early middle ages, people across north-western Europe were inscribing runes on a range of different objects. Onc...

This textbook serves a dual purpose. It is, first, a comprehensive introduction to historical linguistics, intended for both undergraduate and grad...

This volume brings together ten contributions by leading experts who present their current usage-based research in Diachronic Construction Grammar....

This book presents a new and innovative theory on the origin of the Germanic languages. This theory presents solutions to four pivotal problems in ...

This volume brings together ten peer-reviewed articles on Arabic linguistics. The articles are distributed over three parts: phonetics and phonolog...

While much of the literature has focused on explaining diachronic variation and change, the fact that sometimes change does not seem to happen has ...

The history of English news discourse is characterised by intriguing multilevel developments, and the present cannot be separated from them. For ex...

This volume explores several recurring topics in Romance phonetics and phonology, with a special focus on the segment, syllable, word, and phrase l...

The chapters collected in this volume examine how the sociohistorical and cultural context may influence structural features of lexis and text type...

Relatively little is known about Africa's endangered languages. Unlike Australia, North Asia, and the Americas, where indigenous languages are pred...

Eighteenth-century English is often associated with normative grammar. But to what extent did prescriptivism impact ongoing processes of linguistic...

This book provides a detailed but accessible introduction to the development of the German language from the earliest reconstructable prehistory to...

Like is a ubiquitous feature of English with a deep history in the language, exhibiting regular and constrained variable grammars over time. This v...

This volume is the first collection of papers that is exclusively dedicated to the concept of exaptation, a notion from evolutionary biology that w...