Historical & Comparative Linguistics

During the first half of the twentieth century, a wide range of the Japanese populace was drawn to the possibilities offered by the proposed langua...

The present study is the first to apply a syntactic approach to the grammaticalization of Chinese modals, based on hypotheses on cross-linguistic d...

In this book, Aidan Doyle traces the history of the Irish language from the time of the Norman invasion at the end of the 12th century to independe...

The encoding of motion event components is a central element in determining the nature of linguistic and conceptual representations underlying moti...

Written in response to a brutal ethnic conflict that shocked Europeans in the 1990s, post-Yugoslav literature addresses issues that are still perti...

The relationship between diachronic change and synchronic variation at the articulatory, auditory, acoustic and social level is one of the greatest...

First published in 1972, The Origin and Development of the Bengali Language (Vol. 3) is the updated supplement to the two-volume The Origin and Dev...

This collection provides a broad account of variationist sociolinguistic research on varieties of German, with the goals to encourage greater geoli...