Historical & Comparative Linguistics

The history of English news discourse is characterised by intriguing multilevel developments, and the present cannot be separated from them. For ex...

This volume explores several recurring topics in Romance phonetics and phonology, with a special focus on the segment, syllable, word, and phrase l...

The chapters collected in this volume examine how the sociohistorical and cultural context may influence structural features of lexis and text type...

Relatively little is known about Africa's endangered languages. Unlike Australia, North Asia, and the Americas, where indigenous languages are pred...

Eighteenth-century English is often associated with normative grammar. But to what extent did prescriptivism impact ongoing processes of linguistic...

This book provides a detailed but accessible introduction to the development of the German language from the earliest reconstructable prehistory to...

Like is a ubiquitous feature of English with a deep history in the language, exhibiting regular and constrained variable grammars over time. This v...

This volume is the first collection of papers that is exclusively dedicated to the concept of exaptation, a notion from evolutionary biology that w...

What is the actual connection between disgruntled and gruntled? What links church organs to organised crime, California to the Caliphate, or bracke...

Starting from the history of concepts, Victor Neumann shows how the variety of connotations associated with the ideas of 'nation' and 'people' have...

A whole year's worth of linguistic curiosities, just waiting to be discovered.; Within these pages you might leap back in time, learn about linguis...

It's the most simple, unassuming, innocent-looking verb: 'to be'. Yet it is jam-packed with more different meanings, forms, and uses than any other...

Since it was first published, Future has helped over half a million students learn English and achieve their personal, career, and educational g...

The Atlas presents full colour maps of the distribution among the pidgins and creoles of 120 structural linguistic features drawn from their phonol...