Historical & Comparative Linguistics

Name Meanings Explained“From the casually curious to etymology junkies (or anyone who’s ever halted a conversation to search the internet for the o...

This book will make available the author's most important published articles on Dravidian over the last forty years. It will include a new and subs...

This monograph on biblical linguistics is a highly specialized, pragmatic investigation of the controversial question of 'foregrounding' - the devi...

This book collects Joseph Greenberg's most important writings on the genetic classification of the world's languages. Fifty years ago Joseph Green...

The Michif language -- spoken by descendants of French Canadian fur traders and Cree Indians in western Canada -- is considered an "impossible lang...

Politeness is crucial to successful communication and is consequently of great interest to those who study language and its social context. This bo...

This book combines studies of a broad range of minority and minoritized languages from the past and present to examine the dynamics of changes in t...

This book is about how languages change. It is also a devastating critique of a widespread linguistic orthodoxy. April McMahon argues that to provi...

This book is about how languages change. It is also a devastating critique of a widespread linguistic orthodoxy. April McMahon argues that to provi...

Contact, Structure, and Change addresses the classic problem of how and why languages change over time through the lens of two uniquely productive ...

This basic introduction to Old English is an essential guide for students with little or no linguistic knowledge. Unlike other textbooks on the s...

Dialectología hispánica aplicada: variación, enseñanza, interdisciplinariedad es un libro de referencia tanto para el estudio como para la investig...

In A Sourcebook for Classical Logic John Tomarchio offers a brief sequence in classical Logic befitting an unspecialized study for students of libe...

This study explores the somewhat neglected area of dramatic genres of early English religious lyric and illuminates the functions of dialogue as an...

Dialectología hispánica aplicada: variación, enseñanza, interdisciplinariedad es un libro de referencia tanto para el estudio como para la investig...

Dieser Band nimmt den auf Doris Bachmann-Medick zurückgehenden Gedanken der cultural turns in den Kulturwissenschaften auf. Die Veränderungen der F...

Die Beiträge dieses Buches untersuchen verschiedene Fragestellungen zu religiösen Bezügen in nicht-religiöser Sprache, etwa in Redewendungen, Ortsn...

What is the optimal design for an artificial language? This book explores this question at both a ‘macro’ and a ‘micro’ level. An introductory essa...

Different national varieties of Spanish, for instance Argentinian, Colombian and Mexican, use different address systems, with different numbers of ...

The Katherine Group is a set of Early Middle English works composed for devout women, renowned for both their vigorous and flexible prose and their...

This volume offers some new perspectives on the role of linguistic ideologies in forging the link between ‘language’ and ‘nation’. Language ideolog...