Historical & Comparative Linguistics

The book is a collection of adapted humour inspired by other writers, interspersed with some original texts and a handful of philosophical views, m...

The book is a collection of adapted humour inspired by other writers, interspersed with some original texts and a handful of philosophical views, m...

Singlish is the colloquial variety of English spoken in Singapore. It has sparked much public debate, but so far the complex question of what Singl...

Written originally for the education of the polite London classes in canting the language of thieves and ruffians should they be so unlucky as to...

The Jamaican patois is spoken all over the world, wherever Jamaicans get together for a chat or a song. It contains elements of African languages, ...

This book primarily provides a detailed description and interpretation of one of the most fascinating and poorly understood processes in English ac...

An amazing number of the words we use today were invented in the First World War. They provide a unique insight into the experience of the war and ...

Methods of linguistic data collection are among the most central aspects in empirical linguistics. While written questionnaires have only played a ...

Methods of linguistic data collection are among the most central aspects in empirical linguistics. While written questionnaires have only played a ...

What's ILL in one place can be WACK in another, or the same word can actually have TOTES different meanings. It's CRAY CRAY! From KEWL girls hitti...

This new edition of the Luath Scots Language Learner featuring updated information is suitable as an introductory course or for those interested in...

Australians pride themselves on being easy-going and informal. Their vocabulary with its colour, humour and inventiveness reflects these qualities....

Using W. Von Wartburg''s critical bibliography of dialect and patois as a key reference, this work brings together examples of words derived from L...

With this fifth volume of the Dictionary of American Regional English, readers now have the full panoply of American regional vocabulary, from Adam...

The International Conference on Historical Linguistics has always been a forum that reflects the general state of the art in the field, and the 200...

Temporality surveys the ways in which languages of different types refer to past, present, and future events, through an in-depth examination of fo...

Greek: A History of the Language and its Speakers, Second Edition reveals the trajectory of the Greek language from the Mycenaean period of the sec...