Historical & Comparative Linguistics

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This book provides an in-depth typological account of the forms, functions, and histories of serial verb constructions. Serial verbs, in which seve...

This textbook provides a comprehensive scholarly introduction to Classical Chinese and its texts. Classical Chinese is the language of Confucius an...

Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. A Native Americ...

'Witty and erudite ... stuffed with the kind of arcane information that nobody strictly needs to know, but which is a pleasure to learn nonetheless...

Zhangs book focuses on the analysis of the sociohistorical context, linguistic patterns of discursive construction, and media representations of th...

This book presents the findings from original research about court interpreting in the disciplines of humanities and social sciences from a linguis...

The elegant pen-strokes and visual harmony of Chinese writing have long been admired in the west. Classical Chinese calligraphy is a popular and va...

An exhilarating new account of the English language, from British colonialism to the age of social media, emphasizing dynamism and democratization ...

The Indigenous Languages of the Americas takes stock of what is known about the history and classification of these languages and language families...

This illuminating book critically examines multicultural language politics and policymaking in the Andean-Amazonian countries of Ecuador, Peru, and...

Since its publication in 2007, A Brief History of the Spanish Language has become the leading introduction to the history of one of the world's mos...

The origins of Basque dialects, a highly disputed area of research in Basque studies, are examined. The author, the foremost expert on Basque diale...

The annual Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference provides a forum for research, particularly through comparative study, of both languages. This ti...