Historical & Comparative Linguistics

This multilingual volume delves into multimodal literacy within educational contexts, exploring its significance across diverse cultural settings. ...

This publication examines the complex phenomenon of language contact in its various facets, both for its subject matter and for the variety of inte...

This book looks at the translations which appeared in the Philosophical Transactions and whose source texts had appeared in the Journal des Sçavans...

A BRIEF HISTORY OF Ancient Greek Attested since the fourteenth century BC, and still spoken today by over 10 million people, Greek has been one of ...

This book offers an interdisciplinary approach that covers linguistics and jurisprudence, shows the interconnectedness of law and language, singles...

Written by an international team of leading scholars, this groundbreaking reference work explores the nature of language change and diffusion, and ...

Building Meaning in Context: A Dynamic Approach to Bantu Clause Structure uses the tools of the Dynamic Syntax framework to explore morphosyntactic...

Written by the world-renowned pioneer in the field of modern sociolinguistics, this volume examines the cognitive and cultural factors responsible ...

Written by the world-renowned pioneer in the field of modern sociolinguistics, this volume examines the cognitive and cultural factors responsible ...

The Language of Queen Elizabeth I presents one of the first diachronic accounts of the language the idiolect of the Tudor monarch who ruled Engla...

This book presents the use of kernelsmoothing, a family of methods adapted from fields such as signal processing, as a way to identify the true spa...

'Please stop staring at me whilst I'm on the loo I simply want a peaceful poo.'In this uplifting, funny and giftable collection of poems, general f...

This work is a comprehensive corpus-based description of the synchronic segmental phonology of Classical Latin.   Provides a full description of t...

Linguistic and Genetic (mtDNA) Connections between Native Peoples of Alaska and California: Ancient Mariners of the Middle Holocene traces the ling...

The Dictionary of Hiberno-English is the leading reference book on Hiberno-English the form of English commonly spoken in Ireland. It connects the...

The Language of Harassment: Pragmatic Perspectives on Language as Evidence addresses harassment head-on by conducting a thorough linguistic analysi...

The book is a comprehensive typological study of coordinating conjunctions in Sinitic languages and other languages worldwide, focusing on the gram...

A response to the previous Scottish Traveller Dialects, this time giving the English and the word's translation into Nawken Cant.

In the 1870s, Wester Boswell was one of two sources to assist Smart and Crofton produce their 'Dialect of the English Gypsies'. Some of Wester's o...