Historical & Comparative Linguistics

It is very common in Indo-European languages to derive new, compound verb forms from verb bases by adding prefixes to them. These prefixes, or prev...

This well-established and popular book provides students with all the linguistic background they need for studying any period of French literature...

Shortlisted for the 2020 ESSE Book Award in English Language and LinguisticsOrality in Written Texts provides a methodologically and theoretically ...

Dialect work is one of the actor's most challenging tasks. Need to know a Russian accent? Playing a German countess or a Midwestern farmhand? These...

In Oral Traditions: When Did the French Stop Speaking Latin, voices from 13th century street theatre, a 17th century fairy tale by Perrault, and th...

In 2014, the US marks the 50th anniversary of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, the basis for the Johnson administration’s escalation of American mili...

Proverbs in African Orature examines how preliterate Africans handle oral literacy criticism of their proverbs. The study demonstrates that African...

The Routledge Book of World Proverbs invites the reader to travel the globe in search of the origins of such words of wisdom, experiencing the rich...

The Routledge Book of World Proverbs invites the reader to travel the globe in search of the origins of such words of wisdom, experiencing the rich...

This book provides the first comprehensive account of the history and extent of Celtic influences in English. Drawing on both original research and...

George Orwell coined the term ‘Newspeak’ for his novel 1984, the purpose of which was designed to shrink vocabularies and eliminate subtlety and nu...

Language and Identity in Englishes examines the core issues and debates surrounding the relationship between English, language and identity. Drawin...

Language and Identity in Englishes examines the core issues and debates surrounding the relationship between English, language and identity. Drawin...

The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics provides a survey of the field covering the methods which underpin current work; models of languag...

Morris Swadesh, one of this century's foremost scientific investigators of language, dedicated much of his life to the study of the origin and evol...

Until about 60 years ago, linguistic research on the Arabic language in the West was restricted to inquiries on Classical Arabic and the Classical ...

The Routledge Handbook of Variationist Approaches to Spanish provides an up-to-date overview of the latest research examining sociolinguistic appro...

The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact provides an overview of the state of the art of current research in contact linguistics. Presenting cont...

This innovative work highlights interdisciplinary research on phonetics and phonology across multiple languages, building on the extensive body of ...

First published in 1989. The development of morphological and phonological theory within the broad framework of generative grammar poses a number o...

This volume serves as a comprehensive introduction to Time Series Analysis (TSA), used commonly in financial and engineering sciences, to demonstra...

This pioneering work explores epigraphic evidence for the development of English before the Anglo-Saxon period, bringing together linguistic, histo...

This book explores the concept of linguistic worldview, which is underpinned by the underlying idea that languages, in their lexicogrammatical stru...

Arabic is one of the world's largest languages, spoken natively by nearly 300 million people. By strength of numbers alone Arabic is one of our mos...