Historical & Comparative Linguistics

This volume drawn from the 20th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL, Edinburgh 2018) focuses on the role of language ...

The linker introduces (links) a variety of expressions into the verb phrase, including locatives, the second object of a double object construction...

Were Stone-Age languages really more complex than their modern counterparts? Was Basque actually once spoken over all of Western Europe? Were Welsh...

This lively account of the making of Canadian English traces the variety's conceptual, social and linguistic developments from the twentieth centur...

In Grammars of Approach, Cynthia Wall offers a close look at changes in perspective in spatial design, language, and narrative across the late eigh...

This volume is part of a wider project aiming at mapping the technical medical terminology as it features in medieval Hebrew medical works, especia...

The nature of the Greek of the Septuagint has long been debated. Interference from the original Hebrew is present but scholars continue to disagree...

This book is the first of its kind on the socio-political history of Urdu. It analyses the historiography of the language-narratives about its name...

The processes of gemination, lenition, and vowel lengthening are central to the study of phonology, as they reveal much about the treatment of quan...

This volume is the first handbook devoted entirely to the multitude of frameworks adopted in the field of morphology, including Minimalism, Optimal...

This book offers a diachronic and synchronic account of the verb morphology and phonology of Aramaic from its initial appearance early in the first...

How have we come to depend so greatly on the words terror and terrorism to describe broad categories of violence? David Simpson offers here a philo...

How have we come to depend so greatly on the words terror and terrorism to describe broad categories of violence? David Simpson offers here a philo...

Latin names frequently unpronounceable, all too often wrong and always a tiny puzzle to unravel have been annoying the layman since they first be...