Historical & Comparative Linguistics

This is the most detailed and comprehensive study to date of early Latin language, literary and non-literary, featuring twenty-nine chapters by an ...

This book provides a pioneering introduction to heritage languages and their speakers, written by one of the founders of this new field. Using exam...

This lively account of the making of Canadian English traces the variety's conceptual, social and linguistic developments from the twentieth centur...

Exploring creole studies from a linguistic, historical, and socio-cultural perspective, this study advances our knowledge of the subject by using a...

Responding to the need for a comprehensive treatment of Mexican American English and its varied influences across multiple generations, this volume...

This concise textbook provides students with an engaging and thorough overview of the history of Spanish and its development from Latin. Presupposi...

Drawing on vast amounts of new data from live, unscripted radio and TV broadcasts, and the internet, this is a brilliant and original analysis of c...

This concise textbook provides students with an engaging and thorough overview of the history of Spanish and its development from Latin. Presupposi...

Providing a detailed and comprehensive account of the development of phrasal verbs from early modern to present-day English, this study covers almo...

The author applies the comparative method for the reconstruction of earlier aspectual systems in the Afro-Asiatic phylum of languages. Moving upstr...

Binomials, such as for and against, dead or alive, to have and to hold, can be broadly defined as two words belonging to the same grammatical categ...

The case studies in this volume offer new insights into word order change. As is now becoming increasingly clear, word order variation rarely attra...

This book examines the cross-linguistic expression of changes of location or state, taking as a starting point Talmy's typological generalization t...