Historical and comparative linguistics

A groundbreaking account of the linguistic features of four English dialects and their wider implications for English''s development.

How did the biological, brain and behavioural structures underlying human language evolve?

A thorough examination of the nature and function of absolute constructions in Greek, Latin and Sanskrit.

An exploration of how philology contributed to the study of English language and literature in the nineteenth century.

This book proposes a new methodological approach to documenting languages spoken in multilingual societies.

Explores the history and structure of South American languages, combining insights from archaeology and genetics with innovative linguistic analysis.

This volume presents a historical-sociolinguistic description and analysis of Maritime Polynesian Pidgin.

An introduction to language change.

This volume features new and groundbreaking research on recent changes in the English verb phrase.

This book highlights the complexity of contact-induced language change throughout the history of English.

This innovative textbook demonstrates the mutual relevance of historical linguistics and contemporary linguistics.

An interdisciplinary treatment of syllabic writing in ancient Cyprus and an invaluable resource for anyone studying Cypriot epigraphy or archaeology.

An introduction to language change.

This volume features new and groundbreaking research on recent changes in the English verb phrase.

This book highlights the complexity of contact-induced language change throughout the history of English.

This innovative textbook demonstrates the mutual relevance of historical linguistics and contemporary linguistics.

The first book to explain how speech and gesture evolved together into a system that all humans possess.

This book employs new interdisciplinary approaches to understand multilingualism in the Graeco-Roman worlds, East and West, Classical and medieval.

This book provides an introduction to the Meroitic language and writing system.

The first introduction to clitics, providing a complete summary of their properties and their uses.

The first book to explain how speech and gesture evolved together into a system that all humans possess.

This book employs new interdisciplinary approaches to understand multilingualism in the Graeco-Roman worlds, East and West, Classical and medieval.

This book provides an introduction to the Meroitic language and writing system.

The first introduction to clitics, providing a complete summary of their properties and their uses.

The first study into how children acquire Creoles as their first language in the absence of a conventional language model.

The first study into how children acquire Creoles as their first language in the absence of a conventional language model.

This book explains how particle verbs fit into the grammatical systems of English and Dutch.

The first typological study of Afroasiatic languages.

This book explains how particle verbs fit into the grammatical systems of English and Dutch.

The first typological study of Afroasiatic languages.

A one-stop resource on the current developments in word order research.

A one-stop resource on the current developments in word order research.

This book presents the basic principles of modern colour semantics and discusses the crucial differences between modern and historical colour studies.

This book takes an original look at what happens when speakers of different varieties of English interact with one another.

This book takes an original look at what happens when speakers of different varieties of English interact with one another.

This book presents the basic principles of modern colour semantics and discusses the crucial differences between modern and historical colour studies.

Explores the similarities and differences of about forty South Asian languages from the four different language families.

Explores the similarities and differences of about forty South Asian languages from the four different language families.

An edited volume which addresses problems encountered in gathering and analysing data from early English.

An edited volume which addresses problems encountered in gathering and analysing data from early English.

This textbook teaches Hittite grammar in stages, using genuine material throughout, and is the first to introduce the cuneiform script.

This book describes the conceptual and linguistic underpinnings of narrative interpretation.

This book describes the conceptual and linguistic underpinnings of narrative interpretation.

This edited collection provides an overview of linguistic diversity, societal discourses and interaction between majorities and minorities in the Baltic States.

This book brings together a range of perspectives on the collection, analysis and broader relevance of variable language data.

This book traces the history of the Korean language from its origins right up to the present day.

A new view on the evolution of the language of medicine based on a large electronic corpus of medical texts.

This book brings together a range of perspectives on the collection, analysis and broader relevance of variable language data.

This book traces the history of the Korean language from its origins right up to the present day.

A new view on the evolution of the language of medicine based on a large electronic corpus of medical texts.