Historical & Comparative Linguistics

What is the actual connection between disgruntled and gruntled? What links church organs to organised crime, California to the Caliphate, or bracke...

Starting from the history of concepts, Victor Neumann shows how the variety of connotations associated with the ideas of 'nation' and 'people' have...

A whole year's worth of linguistic curiosities, just waiting to be discovered.; Within these pages you might leap back in time, learn about linguis...

It's the most simple, unassuming, innocent-looking verb: 'to be'. Yet it is jam-packed with more different meanings, forms, and uses than any other...

Since it was first published, Future has helped over half a million students learn English and achieve their personal, career, and educational g...

The Atlas presents full colour maps of the distribution among the pidgins and creoles of 120 structural linguistic features drawn from their phonol...

More than 100 vocabulary-building quizzes make up the core of the book, with shorter sections on: * The fascinating origins of words * Quotes and m...

The past few decades have witnessed an unprecedented surge of interest in the language of the Late Modern English period. Late Modern English: Nove...

A pioneering collection of new research that explores categories, constructions, and change in the syntax of the English language. The volume, with...

Focusing on Slavic languages, Danko ipka provides a systematic approach to lexical indicators of cultural identity. In contrast to existing researc...

One of the most intriguing features of languages is that speakers can produce novel grammatical utterances that they have never heard before. Conse...

The most rigorous description ever undertaken of the Scandinavian influence on the vocabulary of a major Middle English text, and a new model for t...

Surveying over 300 languages, this typological study presents new theoretical insights into the nature of agreement, as well as empirical findings ...

Changing Names investigates, in relation to the ancient Greek world, the ways in which preferences in personal name-giving change: through shifts i...

The papers in this volume cover a wide range of interrelated syntactic phenomena, from the history of core arguments, to complements and non-finite...

This posthumous work by Jacques Arends offers new insights into the emergence of the creole languages of Suriname including Sranantongo or Suriname...

This study is an attempt to furnish data for our knowledge of Vulgar Latin culled from the vocalism of Latin Christian inscriptions, particularly o...

Haitian Creole is the creole language with the largest number of speakers: about ten million in Haiti and two million in diaspora communities in No...

The loss of Negative Concord (NC) has long been attributed to external factors. This study readdresses this issue and provides evidence of the fail...

An accessible overview of the first centuries in the history of the English language Combining a wide variety of short texts with a coherent and up...