Historical & Comparative Linguistics

Two languages can resemble each other in the categories, constructions, and types of meaning they use; and in the forms they employ to express thes...

Southern Mǐn refers to a group of Chinese dialects spoken mainly in Southeast China and Taiwan. This group occupies a special position in the study...

Watkins demonstrates the continuity of poetic formulae in Indo-European languages from Old Hittite to medieval Irish. Using the comparative method,...

Drawn from the Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, with the emphasis on the expressions used or coined before 1914.

2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andre...

This book argues that the Indo-Europeanizing of Europe essentially began shortly before 1600 BC, when lands rich in natural resources were taken ov...

First published in 1988, this book focuses on diversity and discourse, and collects contemporaneous research across a wide range of topics includin...

First published in 1985, this book brings together recent work on women and children from the nineteenth-century to the present. The contributors e...

First published in 1979, this book starts from the perspective that dealing with anaphoric language can be decomposed into two complementary tasks:...

Formulaicity is pervasive in both spoken and written language. Speakers use a huge amount of prefabricated language including collocations, idioms,...

Francis W. Kelsey was Professor of Latin at the University of Michigan from 1889 until his death in 1927. His popular school commentary on Caesar's...

First published in 1937, this book supplies a history of the living growth of the English language from Old English to the medieval period. It offe...

The German comparative philologist Friedrich Max Müller (1823-1900) was one of the most influential scholars in Victorian Britain. Müller travelled...

The Routledge Companion to the Hispanic Enlightenment is an interdisciplinary volume that brings together an international team of contributors to ...

This monograph takes up recent advances in social network methods in sociology, together with data on economic segregation, in order to build a qua...

Three centuries of English idioms—their unusual origins and unexpected interpretationsTo pay through the nose. Raining cats and dogs. By hook or by...

An interdisciplinary exploration of how writers have conveyed sound through text.Edited by Christopher Cannon and Steven Justice, The Sound of Writ...

An interdisciplinary exploration of how writers have conveyed sound through text.Edited by Christopher Cannon and Steven Justice, The Sound of Writ...

With unusual structural characteristics, Finnish and Saami offer interesting challenges to linguistic theories formulated around more popular langu...

This volume represents the culmination of an extensive research project that studied the development of linguistic form/function relations in narra...

In this volume, which simultaneously honors the career contributions of Jean Berko Gleason and provides an overview of a broad and increasingly imp...

This special issue represents the initial products of the first five years of a multi-center project entitled "Origins of Communicative Disorders."...