Historical & Comparative Linguistics

An optimistic and nuanced portrait of a generation that has much to teach us about how to live and collaborate in our digital world. Born since the...

The English language is rich with eponyms words that are named after an individual some better known than others. This book features 150 of the m...

Interrogates the fundamental concepts with which we think, and which form the key concepts for discussing democracy in the Western world: ''the ind...

Visitors to New Zealand are frequently surprised and puzzled by local terms and expressions. This concise AZ dictionary, now updated in a new e...

Any history of English starts with the evidence its narrators select, the historical periods they focus on, and the guiding principles and framewor...

Lexicology is about words, their meanings and the relationships between them, their origins and their structure. It combines the study of derivatio...

At the border between Gallo-Romance and Italo-Romance, the dialects spoken in Menton as well as in the Roya and Nervia Valleys share distinctive sy...

Ten techniques for keeping your knowledge of Greek fresh long after college. Seminarians spend countless hours mastering biblical languages and lea...

Pull up a bollard and get to know the colourful language of the Royal Canadian Navy. Do you ever get channel fever so bad only a great homeward bou...

Ivan N. Petrovs The Development of the Bulgarian Literary Language: From Incunabula to First Grammars, Late FifteenthEarly Seventeenth Century exam...

Laudat poeta multa loca pulcherrima, quae vidit visitavitque in multis orbis terrarum partibus. Alloquitur autem amicos, inter quos poetas philosop...

Charting the major developments in the morphology of English, this book introduces students to English inflectional and derivational morphology, pr...