Historical & Comparative Linguistics

This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 8th International Conference of Middle English, held in Spain at the University of Murc...

This volume completes the first uniform edition of the Early Middle English Ancrene Wisse Group. It contains Sawles Warde from the Katherine Group,...

History and Development of the Arabic Language is a general introduction for students to the history of the Arabic language. It is divided into two...

This book offers a workbook approach to linguistics and provides guidelines for the study of language. It aims to give basic information and to ind...

Historical Sociolinguistics: Language Change in Tudor and Stuart England is the seminal text in the field of historical sociolinguistics. Demonstra...

This study analyzes the indicative and subjunctive da-complements in the Serbian language while comparing and contrasting them with similar finite ...

Bis dat, qui cito dat – never has a proverb more aptly applied to an individual than does this Medieval Latin saying to Wolfgang Mieder. «He gives ...

Language endangerment is a fundamental issue for humanity. What rights do minority communities have concerning their languages? How does each langu...

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...

This book dissiminates a selected collection of research texts from the Congress Hybrid Identities, held in 2011 in the Institute for Research into...

This book shows the evolution of the Concise Oxford Dictionary, a famous and innovative dictionary for native speakers of English. It traces change...

This volume of papers from the 14th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology, held at the University of Western Ontario (Canada), 2 to 6...

The fourteen essays presented here discuss the development of English during the Middle English period: how the language developed from Old English...

The Kets of Central Siberia are perhaps the most enigmatic of Siberia's aboriginal tribes. Today numbering barely 1,100 souls living in several sma...

History and Development of the Arabic Language is a general introduction for students to the history of the Arabic language. It is divided into two...

This book primarily examines verbal prefixes expressing aspectuality in the Old and Middle English periods, but it also takes a look at the post-ve...

This study is an investigation into the comparative phonology and lexicon of six barely-known Bantu varieties spoken in Kenya. These varieties (Ime...

A famous English hymn does not start with He who would be valiant, but He who would valiant be with valiant in dislocated position in the clause. T...

This book was shortlisted for the ESSE Book Awards 2014This volume investigates Left Dislocation (LD) in the recent history of English, especially ...

Migration as a process has achieved increasing attention in the context of nation-states and globalisation. In linguistics the field of language co...

The application of postcolonial theories to Irish literature remains a contentious issue. Unlike other colonised nations, Ireland shared a long his...

This volume presents selected contributions to an annual symposium on metaphor and metonymy held at the English Department of Heidelberg University...

The articles in this volume investigate everyday textual material of sociolinguistic landscapes in the early 21st century. Sociolinguistic landscap...

This textbook provides a detailed introduction to the study of Latin from the perspective of contemporary linguistics. It adopts some basic tenets ...