Language: History & General Works

This is the first full-scale reference grammar of Classical Greek in English in a century. The first work of its kind to reflect significant advanc...

This innovative, investigative, and expansive handbook covers a multitude of angles through which the intricacies of Persian and its many dialects ...

The book shows how the system of English predicate complementation has been undergoing an amazing amount of variation and change in recent centurie...

*A TIME, New Yorker, Financial Times and History Today Book of the Year*'Hilarious' Sam Leith'I loved this book' Susie Dent''Witty and affectionate...

Where does the ampersand get its name from? What does the hashtag have to do with commerce in ancient Rome? Keith Houston gives the answers in this...

In the century since its birth, the crossword has evolved into the world's most popular intellectual pastime: a unique form of wordplay, the codes ...

This book presents a historical account of the development of an acrolectal variety of the English language in colonial India. It highlights the ph...

This book proposes a novel analysis of Nominal Construction from the syntax-semantics interface. It is based on the newly developed framework of Ra...

Analyzes the state of the Welsh language at the beginning of the twenty-first century. This title aims to update our understanding of Welsh as a li...

A landmark reference guide to the LGBTQIA+ community's contributions to the English language-an intersectional, inclusive illustrated glossary feat...

Applicative Arguments: A Syntactic and Semantic Investigation of German and English presents formal semantic and syntactic analyses of German and E...

Is English changing? To what degree is it changing? Is this change good or bad? In answering these questions, Is English Changing? provides a livel...

Pragmatics Pedagogy in English as an International Language aims to bring to light L2 pragmatics instruction and assessment in relation to English ...

A delightBooklistA richly illustrated historical account of English-language dictionaries, and the people who made them, from the dawn of printing ...

'A delightful compendium' - Evening StandardHave you ever had a feeling that you couldn't quite describe, because no English word exists for it?Ind...

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 ...