Historical and comparative linguistics

A spirited and engaging linguistic and social re-imagination of the role and nature of clichés in communication and interaction.

A comprehensive linguistic analysis of Mexican American English, introducing a model of the language shift that results within immigrant groups.

Leading scholars in language policy examine the politics and policies of language in Canada and the United States.

A pioneering study of heritage languages, from a leading scholar in this area of study world-wide.

This book provides a fresh perspective on language change in Late Modern English, and is illustrated with corpus-linguistic case studies.

Explores theoretical and typological issues surrounding the emergence of creole languages, using a cohesive approach that combines linguistics, legal history and colonial studies.

Written by leading international scholars and activists, this guidebook provides ideas and strategies to support language revitalization.

Explores theoretical and typological issues surrounding the emergence of creole languages, using a cohesive approach that combines linguistics, legal history and colonial studies.

Major new, up-to-date Ancient Greek-English dictionary, based on fresh reading of the texts and modern lexicographical methods.

Provides a comprehensive overview of how variation in English world-wide is structured and the factors that motivate this structure.

An inventory of present-day English dialect, slang and colloquialisms drawn from a prestigious nationwide survey.

A compelling argument for why creoles are their own unique entity, which have developed independently of other processes of language development and change.

How did the Homeric narrator use metaphors of time, speech, and thought to compose and structure the Iliad and Odyssey?

Bringing together research from a team of global scholars, this book offers a comprehensive analysis of the Indo-European language family.

From the Middle Ages up to the present day, this book traces politeness in the history of the English language.

Provides a systematic approach to lexical indicators of cultural identity using the material of Slavic languages.

Bringing together research from a team of global scholars, this book offers a comprehensive analysis of the Indo-European language family.

From the Middle Ages up to the present day, this book traces politeness in the history of the English language.

With contributions from renowned scholars, this book explores what we can learn about linguistics from the study of Romance languages.

A compelling argument for why creoles are their own unique entity, which have developed independently of other processes of language development and change.

Studies the different conceptions of dialectic (art of argumentation, logic) during the Hellenistic and early Imperial periods.

Presents an interdisciplinary study of literary dialect and an argument for a mixed-method approach to digital research.

A pioneering study of heritage languages, from a leading scholar in this area of study world-wide.

A brilliant analysis of colloquial English, both its syntax and its variations, using novel data from live, unscripted radio and TV broadcasts and the internet.

Based on analysis of more than 1,000 languages, this volume reconstructs more than 500 processes of grammatical change in the languages of the world.

A comprehensive, state-of-the-art survey of research on World Englishes by a team of leading experts in the field.

A spirited and engaging linguistic and social re-imagination of the role and nature of clichés in communication and interaction.

This completely rewritten second edition provides a thorough introduction to corpus research from the point of view of Applied Linguistics.

This completely rewritten second edition provides a thorough introduction to corpus research from the point of view of Applied Linguistics.

An original new perspective on the shared history of Burmese, Chinese, and Tibetan, with a particular focus on their phonological development.

Explores the evolution of emoji, how people use them, and what they tell us about the technology-enhanced state of modern society.

Provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the different themes, areas of practice and developing trends in translation studies.

Explores the evolution of emoji, how people use them, and what they tell us about the technology-enhanced state of modern society.

Provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the different themes, areas of practice and developing trends in translation studies.

Provides students with an engaging and thorough overview of the history of Spanish and its development from Latin.

A comprehensive, state-of-the-art survey of research on World Englishes by a team of leading experts in the field.

This book places binomials - word pairs - in the context of phonology, stylistics, semantics, translation theory and practice in various periods.

This book places binomials - word pairs - in the context of phonology, stylistics, semantics, translation theory and practice in various periods.

This book argues that a dictionary should show when to use one word rather than another, instead of treating each word separately.

This book argues that a dictionary should show when to use one word rather than another, instead of treating each word separately.

Where is language?

The first areal-typological exploration of agreement systems in the world''s languages.

Is British English becoming more like American English?

Is British English becoming more like American English?

A revealing account of politeness in conversation, focusing on the vital role it plays in maintaining class differences.

Considers how medieval English and Scots texts were re-worked in later centuries, and the implications for philological theory and practice.

Considers how medieval English and Scots texts were re-worked in later centuries, and the implications for philological theory and practice.

The interrelationship between three major quantity changes in the history of the Germanic languages: gemination, lenition, and open syllable lengthening.

This is a detailed diachronic study of a set of English pragmatic markers, providing insights concerning their syntactic and semantic development.

This is a detailed diachronic study of a set of English pragmatic markers, providing insights concerning their syntactic and semantic development.