Historical and comparative linguistics

This book explores the origin and evolution of important grammatical categories of the Indo-European verb, including the markers of person, tense, number, aspect, and mood.

This book explores many of the unanswered questions surrounding the original and eponymous Lingua Franca, a language spoken by peoples across the Mediterranean and North Africa for nearly three centuries.

This book presents new data and additional questions regarding the linguistic cycle.

Writing in the ancient Mediterranean existed against a backdrop of very high levels of interaction and contact.

This book provides encouragement for pastors carrying out their tasks as servants of Christ.

Examines the origins and development of New Zealand English on the basis of extensive audio-recordings.

This practical coursebook introduces all the basics of semantics in a simple, step-by-step fashion.

The ideal introduction for students of semantics, this book provides the teacher and the student with insights into word meaning.

The Handbook of Dialectology provides an authoritative, up-to-date and unusually broad account of the study of dialect, in one volume.

Advances in the Study of Greek offers an introduction to issues of interest in the current world of Greek scholarship.

As the second volume of a two-volume set that re-examines nouns and verbs in Chinese, this book investigates a wide range of linguistic phenomena in Chinese and other languages to substantiate the verbs-as-nouns theory proposed by the author.

Generative analyses of comparatives traditionally include two construction specific ellipsis operations, Comparative Deletion and Comparative Ellipsis.

The present volume has its origin in the GLOW conference on Universals hosted in Berlin in March 1999.

Australia is host to many languages - English, indigenous, migrant, and contact.

First published in 1942, this dictionary was designed to help civilians and members of H.

This book is about dynamical, social-interactional aspects of the emergence of complexity in language, explained by linguists, cognitivists, and modelers.

This book provides (a) the first comprehensive description of the phonology and phonetics of Standard Mongolian, known as the Halh (Khalkha) dialect and spoken in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of the Republic of Mongolia; and (b) the first account in any language of the historical phonology of the Mongolian group of languages.

Presents a beginner''s introduction to the history of the English language, incorporating complex systems, the scientific model behind human speech.

"e;Jakobson and Halle's initial statement of the principles of linguistic organization should be made available to all future generations of linguists.

Das Reformationsjubiläum 2017 ist auch für die Regionen Deutschlands wichtig, in denen die Reformation erst später begann.

The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English presents all the slang terms from The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English in a single volume.

Are you a beaver cleaver or the office bike?

Including examples from diverse sources, this book explores the pragmatic functions and effects of ''you'' across time, genre and medium.