Historical & Comparative Linguistics

To what extent can one speak of 'the Renaissance' in terms of grammar: did the medieval curricular subject grammatica survive into the Renaissance ...

The editors and fourteen other research linguists discuss - in English and in Spanish - the African influence on Caribbean phonology, dominant soci...

In recent years, there has been an upsurge of interest in the processing of major East Asian languages such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean. These ...

First Published in 1996. Within a span of three hundred years Sicily underwent two processes of ethnic, cultural and linguistic transformation. Und...

Covers a range of literary and linguistic subjects from pre-Islamic times to the twentieth century.

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

The Intertext series has been specifically designed to meet the needs of contemporary English Language Studies. Working with Texts: A Core Introduc...

The Indo-Aryan languages, spoken by at least 700 million people in the Republic of India, in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, the Maldive Is...

TheHistory of Linguistics, to be published in five volumes, aims to provide the reader with an authoritative and comprehensive account of the attit...

Once the rulers of the largest land empire that has ever existed on earth, the historical Mongols of Chinggis Khan left a linguistic heritage which...

The Intertext series has been specifically designed to meet the needs of contemporary English Language Studies. Working with Texts: A Core Introduc...

Polari is a secret form of language mainly used by homosexual men in London and other cities during the twentieth century. Derived in part from the...

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

The authors are outstanding scholars engaged in the study of language varieties spoken in 'convergence areas' in which speakers are multilingual in...

This innovative study of language and identity in recent and contemporary cases of ethnic conflict in Europe and Eurasia sets out a response to the...

Enslavement, forced migration, war and colonization have led to the global dispersal of Black communities and to the fragmentation of common experi...

American lexicography has a distinguished and familiar tradition. Elwyn (1859) is intended as a corrective response to the excessive identification...

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the French language from the perspective of modern linguistics. Placing French within its social...

This outstanding collection brings together eminent contributors (from Britain, the US, Brazil, India and Canada) to examine crucial interconnectio...

Enslavement, forced migration, war and colonization have led to the global dispersal of Black communities and to the fragmentation of common experi...

Creolization of Language and Culture is the first English edition of Robert Chaudenson's landmark text Des îles, des hommes, des langues, which has...

By introducing the reader to the main issues and themes that have determined the development of the Western linguistic tradition, an evolution of l...

Archaeology and Language I represents groundbreaking work in synthesizing two disciplines that are now seen as interlinked: linguistics and archaeo...