Historical & Comparative Linguistics

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

The investigation of language, of how (and what and why) signifiers signify, is prominent in modern critical work, but the questions being asked ar...

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

This book contributes to the understanding of first-language loss in both immigrant and indigenous communities in (at least) three ways. First, it ...

This book presents a current, interdisciplinary perspective on language requisites from both a biological/comparative perspective and from a develo...

Because developments in informal logic have been based, for the most part, on idealized and abstract models, the tools available for argument analy...

What is the relationship between the ideas of the Enlightenment and the culture and ideology of the French Revolution? This book takes up that clas...

Jenny Jochens captures in fascinating detail the lives of women in pagan and early Christian Iceland and Norway—their work, sexual behavior, marria...

Oral epic poetry is still performed by Turkic singers in Central Asia. On trips to the region, Karl Reichl collected heroic poems from the Uzbek, K...

This bold and accessible study of human languages and communication explores issues which are at the forefront of today's globalized society. The ...

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Reprint of the second (1939) edition of the work that is still the standard source-book of the Anglo-Indian language.

An Introduction to American English explores American English in the context of American history and institutions, while also making comparisons wi...

Explanations and accounts of our own origins have become one of the most popular of all the areas in science that are now regularly brought into th...

When the Gypsies first arrived in the British Isles, sometime in the second half of the fifteenth century, they brought with them their own languag...

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This book builds on the success of Glanville Price's The Languages of Britain, published in 1984, which was widely acclaimed as the most lively, re...

In this detailed survey of Finnish, Hungarian, Lapp and the other Uralic Languages, Angela Marcantonio shows there is in fact no scientific evidenc...

This provocative volume investigates the origins of contemporary African American Vernacular English (AAVE), one of the oldest, yet unsolved, quest...

Much scholarly work assumes that the structure of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) derives from an earlier plantation creole. This volume...

This book builds on the success of Glanville Price's The Languages of Britain, published in 1984, which was widely acclaimed as the most lively, re...

A collection of essays dealing with the fundamental issues in the study of dialect. This text offers critiques of orthodox views about dialect and ...