Language: History & General Works

Le terme marivaudage, qui évoque encore aujourdhui un excès de langage et une virtuosité superficielle, limite la portée dun uvre dont lambition ét...

'A delightfully quirky sturdy . . . [Flanders] is a meticulour historian with a taste for the offbeat; the story of the alphabet suits her well . ....

The third edition of this successful textbook has been fully revised and updated.Essentials of Early English is a practical and highly accessible i...

The Indo-European Languages presents a comprehensive survey of the individual languages and language subgroups within this language family.With ove...

This volume contains twelve papers presented at the 26th International Conference of the Croatian Applied Linguistics Society, which was held at th...

Rediscover the lost words of an ancient land in this new and updated edition of an international bestseller.Most people associate Britain and Irela...

The English language is where words go to be tortured and mutilated into unrecognizable shadows of their former selves. It's where Latin, Greek, an...

The literature and literate knowledge that were produced in Europe from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries emanated from societies that wer...

'At last, the definitive guide to football phraseology across the world... Sparky and very funny' Paul Hayward 'Amusing and informative in equal ...

Describing Prescriptivism provides a topical and thought-provoking analysis of linguistic prescriptivism in British and American English, from a hi...

This volume is devoted to a major chapter in the history of linguistics in the United States, the period from the 1930s to the 1980s, and focuses p...

In exploring the birth of a Dutch identity between 1780 and 1830, this book integrates nationalism studies with literary and linguistic history by ...

Books on Runes are not legion in France. Ever since the Introduction to Runology by Lucien Musset in 1965, very few works have been published on th...

M.A.K Hallidays work has been hugely influential in linguistics and beyond since the 1960s. This is a collection of interviews with key figures in ...

Diese Einführung bietet einen Überblick über die Entwicklung der deutschen Sprache vom Althochdeutschen bis zum Frühneuhochdeutschen mit Ausblicken...

Das Handbuch bietet eine anhand von 6 Paradigmen entfaltete Darstellung deutschsprachig-jüdischer Literatur seit der Aufklärung. Ausgangspunkt ist ...

The Mayan Languages presents a comprehensive survey of the language family associated with the Classic Mayan civilization (AD 200900), a family who...

From Singapore to Scotland, Canada to the Channel Islands, Namibia to New Zealand and beyond, International English takes you on a fascinating jour...

Throughout the pharaonic period, hieroglyphs served both practical and aesthetic purposes. Carved on stelae, statues, and temple walls, hieroglyphi...

More than simply a method of communication shared by a common people, the Hebrew language was always an integral part of the Jewish cultural system...

This volume commemorates the 20th anniversary of Michael Clynes seminal volume «Pluricentric languages. Differing norms in different countries» pub...

This volume examines the use of French in European language communities outside France from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. The phenomeno...

In this book modality and its learner variety in Japanese are investigated from the perspective of grammaticalization in the functional framework. ...

This book presents a unique collection of fairy tales from contemporary China, translated into English for the first time. Demonstrating the contin...

This volume gathers a superbcollection of articles on current research topicsfocused on the Catalan language andculture of the Catalan-speaking lan...

This volume explores how Jansenism was transmitted into Central European literatures and how it shaped the concept of literature in the region. It ...

Dieser Band enthält 73 Beiträge in deutscher und englischer Sprache, die während des 42. Linguistischen Kolloquiums zum Thema Sprachenvielfalt und ...

This book contains new research essays of linguistic interface studies in or related to East Asian languages. Written by 14 colleagues or former st...

A Frequency Dictionary of British English provides information about the frequency and distribution of words in British English.The dictionary pres...

Why is it that some ways of using English are considered good and others are considered bad? Why are certain forms of language termed elegant, eloq...

The volume offers an up-to-date and nuanced study of a multi-thematic topic, expressions of which can be found abundantly in ancient Greek and Lati...

From paddy wagon to rush hour, New York City has given us a number of our popular words and phrases, along the way fashioning a recognizable dialec...

This work addresses the issue of magical communication found in the Elder Futhark runic inscriptions. It examines the Kragehul Spear Shaft (DR 196)...

In the past few decades, sustained and overwhelming research attention has been given to EAL (English as an Additional Language) scholars English w...