Linguistics

This volume publishes in full for the first time all known cuneiform manuscripts of an Akkadian calendar treatise that is unified by the theme of B...

This book tells the story of how families separated across borders write--and learn new ways of writing--in pursuit of love and money. According to...

This volume is the first extensive and reliable grammatical description of any traditional language of the Great Andamanese family. Akabea died out...

This book explores the life and experiences of one of the world's most renowned and well-respected experts in bilingualism. François Grosjean takes...

Careful writers and speakers agree that clichés are generally to be avoided. However, nearly all of us continue to use them. Why do they persist in...

When talk circulates through technological media - through television or radio and through the activities they support, like the dissemination of n...

Remade in France: Anglicisms in the Lexicon and Morphology of French chronicles the current status of French Anglicisms, a popular topic in the his...

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A surging movement for Catalan political independence from Spain has brought renewed urgency to questions about what it means, personally and polit...

This is the second book in a two-volume comparative history of negation in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. The work integrates typol...

The Atlas presents full colour maps of the distribution among the pidgins and creoles of 120 structural linguistic features drawn from their phonol...

This new critical edition of Aulus Gellius' Noctes Atticae by Leofranc Holford-Strevens is intended to replace the previous Oxford Classical Text b...

Latin is often described as a free word order language, but in general each word order encodes a particular information structure: in that sense, e...

This book explores the nature of cognitive representations and processes in speech motor control, based primarily on evidence from speech timing. I...

The Oxford Guide to Middle High German is the most comprehensive self-contained treatment of Middle High German available in English. It covers the...

Crispin Wright is widely recognised as one of the most important and influential analytic philosophers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries....

There are things we routinely say that may strike us as literally false but that we are nonetheless reluctant to give up. This might be something m...

This volume is the first to provide a comprehensive cross-linguistic overview of an understudied typological phenomenon, the clause-level argument-...

In the decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Berlin has re-emerged as a global city in large part thanks to its reputation as a literary city ...