Historical & Comparative Linguistics

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...

This volume is the first to present a detailed survey of the systems of verb-verb complexes in Asian languages from both a synchronic and diachroni...

'In terms of a non-fiction account of how historical and contemporary language has been shaped by women, I really recommend lexicographer Jonathon ...

A second revised and updated edition of Carlos Gracia Zamaconas Manual de Egipcio Medio [Handbook of Middle Egyptian]. The book is designed as a pr...

This new four volume collection, Pidgins and Creoles, will showcase the major areas of research and their achievements in this multidisciplinary fi...

In Relativization in Ojibwe, Michael D. Sullivan Sr. compares varieties of the Ojibwe language and establishes subdialect groupings for Southwester...

This unique collection of essays, edited by and for students of linguistics, offers insights into the personal and professional journeys of some of...

This unique collection of essays, edited by and for students of linguistics, offers insights into the personal and professional journeys of some of...

R. M. W. Dixon's landmark 1972 grammar of the Dyirbal language of North Queensland is one of the best-known and most widely-cited language descript...

Between Souks and Malls: A Semiotic Reading of the Linguistic Landscape of Saudi Arabia is an engaging ethnographic journey that charts the linguis...

The concept of negative concord refers to the seemingly multiple exponence of semantically single negation as in You aint seen nothing yet. This bo...

In The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet, Gerald Roche sheds light on a global crisis of linguistic diversity that will see at least half of...