Historical & Comparative Linguistics

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...

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...

What does it mean to speak Sakha in the city? Words Like Birds, a linguistic ethnography of Sakha discourses and practices in urban far eastern Rus...

Mizzle. Dreich. Raining knives and forks. A real mugga-fisty. A spot of plother...We Brits love talking about the weather. So much so that our isla...

The book shows how humor has changed since the advent of the internet: new genres, new contexts, and new audiences. The book provides a guide to su...

The comparative analysis of Welsh and English found in this book is based on a translation corpus consisting of just over thirty novels and autobio...