Historical and comparative linguistics

This Element introduces Kongish as a translingual and multimodal urban dialect emerging in Hong Kong in recent years.

Written by the world''s leading expert on Hausa, this book provides a lucid and comprehensive linguistic history of the language.

Written by the world''s leading expert on Hausa, this book provides a lucid and comprehensive linguistic history of the language.

This volume introduces a new framework for conceptualizing and achieving corpus representativeness in a rigorous, yet practical way.

This volume introduces a new framework for conceptualizing and achieving corpus representativeness in a rigorous, yet practical way.

Offers a unique, language-based critique of New Testament theology and reconceptualizes it using categories of modern linguistics.

Offers a unique, language-based critique of New Testament theology and reconceptualizes it using categories of modern linguistics.

This volume brings together state-of-the-art research on population movement and language change from a team of international scholars.

This volume brings together state-of-the-art research on multilingualism and population structure from a team of international scholars.

This volume brings together state-of-the-art research on population movement and language change from a team of international scholars.

This volume brings together state-of-the-art research on multilingualism and population structure from a team of international scholars.

With a particular focus on the Early Modern English period, this book explores the standardisation of English spelling.

This Element explores grammatical restructuring in the AAE copula/auxiliary system that developed in the context of the Great Migration.

This book questions what culture is and what it is assumed to ''look like'' in the context of globalization.

This book questions what culture is and what it is assumed to ''look like'' in the context of globalization.

This Element explores grammatical restructuring in the AAE copula/auxiliary system that developed in the context of the Great Migration.

With a particular focus on the Early Modern English period, this book explores the standardisation of English spelling.

Presents a ''process relation framework'' to explain the more complex, previously unaccounted for cases of non-finiteness in clause structure.

Presents a ''process relation framework'' to explain the more complex, previously unaccounted for cases of non-finiteness in clause structure.

Ranging from Cicero''s Rome to contemporary politics, Words on Fire is a provocative rethinking of political eloquence for our time.

Ranging from Cicero''s Rome to contemporary politics, Words on Fire is a provocative rethinking of political eloquence for our time.

Explores the relationship between the present tense and the conceptualisation of ''presence'' in Greek from a cognitive perspective.

Explores the relationship between the present tense and the conceptualisation of ''presence'' in Greek from a cognitive perspective.

Mark Faulkner offers a compelling new narrative of what happened to English-language writing after the Norman Conquest of 1066.

This Element shows how Cognitive Grammar sharpens our understanding of language change through seven case studies from Russian.

Mark Faulkner offers a compelling new narrative of what happened to English-language writing after the Norman Conquest of 1066.

This Element shows how Cognitive Grammar sharpens our understanding of language change through seven case studies from Russian.

From its historical development to its current context, this is the first full-length overview of middle-class African American English.

From its historical development to its current context, this is the first full-length overview of middle-class African American English.

Drawing on extensive field data, this groundbreaking work explores the development of the sound systems of Central Chadic languages.

By de-anonymizing the key text on Mediterranean Lingua Franca, the book opens unexpected new areas for linguistic and historical research.

A comprehensive account of how English is being used and reshaped by multilingual Asian speakers to fit their everyday needs.

Drawing on extensive field data, this groundbreaking work explores the development of the sound systems of Central Chadic languages.

By de-anonymizing the key text on Mediterranean Lingua Franca, the book opens unexpected new areas for linguistic and historical research.

Comparative Literature is both the past and the future of literary studies.

This book studies the origins of language.

This book studies the origins of language.

As the third volume of a multivolume set on Chinese phonetics, this book examines the phonetical system of Modern Chinese and phonetical changes from Middle Chinese to Modern Chinese.

As the first volume of a multivolume set on Chinese phonetics, this book gives a full picture of the historical development of the Chinese language and studies the phonetics of the early form of Chinese, that is, Old Chinese.

As the second volume of a multivolume set on Chinese phonetics, this book examines the phonetical systems of Middle Chinese and phonetical changes from Old Chinese to Middle Chinese.

As the third volume of a multivolume set on Chinese phonetics, this book examines the phonetical system of Modern Chinese and phonetical changes from Middle Chinese to Modern Chinese.

As the first volume of a multivolume set on Chinese phonetics, this book gives a full picture of the historical development of the Chinese language and studies the phonetics of the early form of Chinese, that is, Old Chinese.

As the second volume of a multivolume set on Chinese phonetics, this book examines the phonetical systems of Middle Chinese and phonetical changes from Old Chinese to Middle Chinese.

This companion offers a unique introductory study of linguistics in India.

This companion offers a unique introductory study of linguistics in India.

This book offers a comprehensive account of adjuncts in generative grammar, seeking to reconcile the differing ways in which they have been treated in the past by proposing a method of analysis grounded in simplification based on Simplest Merge.

This book offers a comprehensive account of adjuncts in generative grammar, seeking to reconcile the differing ways in which they have been treated in the past by proposing a method of analysis grounded in simplification based on Simplest Merge.

This book is a necessary supplement to the theoretical exploration into semantic rhetoric, particularly a breakthrough in the study of the relationship between the source domain and target domain involved in the construction of semantic rhetorical discourse.

This book is a necessary supplement to the theoretical exploration into semantic rhetoric, particularly a breakthrough in the study of the relationship between the source domain and target domain involved in the construction of semantic rhetorical discourse.

This book is the second volume of a two-volume set that synchronically and diachronically studies the Jin dialect of Northern Shaanxi Province in China, with a focus on six grammatical features of the dialect.