Historical & Comparative Linguistics

This volume is the first to present a detailed survey of the systems of verb-verb complexes in Asian languages from both a synchronic and diachroni...

'In terms of a non-fiction account of how historical and contemporary language has been shaped by women, I really recommend lexicographer Jonathon ...

A second revised and updated edition of Carlos Gracia Zamaconas Manual de Egipcio Medio [Handbook of Middle Egyptian]. The book is designed as a pr...

This new four volume collection, Pidgins and Creoles, will showcase the major areas of research and their achievements in this multidisciplinary fi...

In Relativization in Ojibwe, Michael D. Sullivan Sr. compares varieties of the Ojibwe language and establishes subdialect groupings for Southwester...

This unique collection of essays, edited by and for students of linguistics, offers insights into the personal and professional journeys of some of...

This unique collection of essays, edited by and for students of linguistics, offers insights into the personal and professional journeys of some of...

R. M. W. Dixon's landmark 1972 grammar of the Dyirbal language of North Queensland is one of the best-known and most widely-cited language descript...

Between Souks and Malls: A Semiotic Reading of the Linguistic Landscape of Saudi Arabia is an engaging ethnographic journey that charts the linguis...

The concept of negative concord refers to the seemingly multiple exponence of semantically single negation as in You aint seen nothing yet. This bo...

In The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet, Gerald Roche sheds light on a global crisis of linguistic diversity that will see at least half of...

In The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet, Gerald Roche sheds light on a global crisis of linguistic diversity that will see at least half of...

What does it mean to speak Sakha in the city? Words Like Birds, a linguistic ethnography of Sakha discourses and practices in urban far eastern Rus...

Mizzle. Dreich. Raining knives and forks. A real mugga-fisty. A spot of plother...We Brits love talking about the weather. So much so that our isla...

The book shows how humor has changed since the advent of the internet: new genres, new contexts, and new audiences. The book provides a guide to su...

The comparative analysis of Welsh and English found in this book is based on a translation corpus consisting of just over thirty novels and autobio...

The comparative analysis of Welsh and English found in this book is based on a translation corpus consisting of just over thirty novels and autobio...

This book is an exploration into the syntactic structures of Khasi language varieties through a comparative analysis of the War-Khasi and War-Jaiñt...

This book compares the ways in which the national media in two different countries construct (frame) and develop the image of the religious other, ...

The archaeologist, philologist, and Linguistics theoretician Nikolai Marr (1865-1934) has attracted increasing scholarly attention as a pivotal fig...

This book provides a detailed study of the unusually large array of interrogative and relative grammars mastered by French speakers. Each of its ei...

This book offers a fresh look at the status of the scribe in society, his training, practices, and work in the biblical world. What was the scribe...

This book delves into Benjamin Franklins English, illustrating the variable nature of 18th-century American English and his stylistic manipulation ...

The last decades have witnessed a renewed interest in near-synonymy. In particular, recent distributional corpus-based approaches used for semanti...

This volume features nine articles, covering various aspects of Maltese linguistics:Part I, mostly dedicated to the Maltese lexicon, opens with Bed...

Literature serves many purposes, and one of them certainly proves to be to convey messages, wisdom, and instruction, and this across languages, rel...

This book traces the development of hypermetric verse in Old English and compares it to the cognate traditions of Old Norse and Old Saxon. The stu...

Existing accounts of Australian Aboriginal English do not investigate the significant degree of variation found across the continent. This book pre...

Designed as a contribution to contrastive linguistics, the present volume brings up-to-date the comparison of German with its closest neighbour, Du...

In recent decades, corpus linguistics has experienced tremendous development in the Hispanic world, along two opposite but complementary approaches...

A groundbreaking new work that sheds light on case studies of linguistic human rights around the world, raising much-needed awareness of the strugg...

How should one write a history of Ancient Israel? In the last few decades, a lively discussion has taken place on the historiography of ancient Isr...

The Ruthwell Cross is one of the finest Anglo-Saxon high crosses that have come down to us. The longest epigraphic text in the Old English Runes Co...

This manual is intended to fill a gap in the area of Romance studies. There is no introduction available so far that broadly covers the field of Ca...

The current companion will offer a survey of the Afroasiatic, Dravidian, Indo-Aryan, and Turkic languages in contact with Iranian languages. Compar...

This manual is the first comprehensive account of Brazilian Portuguese linguistics written in English, offering not only linguists but also histor...

When first published in 2006, Rats Alley was a ground-breaking piece of research, the first-ever study of trench names of the Western Front. Now, i...

Established in the early 1980s, Word Grammar is the first theory of grammar that was cast in the terms of cognitive linguistics. This book surveys ...

Gorani refers to under-documented, endangered varieties spoken in a cluster within the Zagros mountains (Iran/Iraq). These varieties possess conse...