Historical and comparative linguistics

In their book, the authors describe the usage of and attitudes towards English in Asia since the 19th century, as well as the creative and dynamic ways in which Asians of the 21st century continually reinvent the lexicon of English, and the lexicons of their native tongues.

Our everyday lives are inevitably touched--and immeasurably enriched--by an extraordinary variety of miniature forms of verbal communication, from classified ads to street signs, and from yesterday's graffito to tomorrow's headline.

The "e;one-nation-one-language"e; assumption is as unrealistic as the well-known Chomskyan ideal of a homogeneous speech community.

This book explores the usage patterns of a group of adversative and concessive conjunctions in English texts written by Chinese EFL learners and their native speaker counterparts.

The maps presented in this volume, first published in 1987, are based on the material of the Survey of English Dialects which was collected from over 300 localities between 1948 and 1961.

Traces the making of Canadian English, both as concept and global variety, throughout the twentieth century to the present.

Trudgill''s lively book traces the histories of dialects and accents, and defends the legitimacy of the language of ordinary people.

The aim of this book is to let us see our language as a living and developing human activity in a period of history which offers special advantages for the purpose.

This book offers an interdisciplinary approach that covers linguistics and jurisprudence, shows the interconnectedness of law and language, singles out major theories related to the emergence of the concept of trust and discusses them from the perspective of legal linguistics.

This book brings together a team of leading scholars to explore all aspects of recent dialect change.

This detailed, corpus-based study shows how the placement and usage of the English preposition has changed since the sixteenth century.

This book explores grammatical gender in the Romance languages and dialects and its evolution from Latin.

Scholars routinely describe how Martin Luther prioritized the books of the New Testament that he believed most truly represented the gospel, the Living Word of Jesus Christ.

First published in 1980, this book questions many of the assumptions that have accumulated around the subject of intonation as it occurs in spontaneous speech, as well as texts read aloud.

A comprehensive, neurally based theory of language function that draws on principles of neuroanatomy, cognitive psychology, cognitive neuropsychology, psycholinguistics, and parallel distributed processing.

In this first book-length study of synchronic umlaut, a comprehensive comparative analysis of the phonology and morphology of the umlaut alternation in present-day German and the Austronesian language Chamorro is presented in the framework of Optimality Theory.

From Truth to Technique addresses key questions raised by the burgeoning literature in what Philip Gaines calls advocacy advice texts-manuals, handbooks, and other how-to guides-written by lawyers for lawyers, both practicing and aspiring, to help them be as effective as possible in trial advocacy.

As the second volume of a two-volume set that studies the Chinese rhyme tables, this book seeks to reconstruct the ancient rhyme tables based on the extant materials and findings.

This book presents a more accurate and detailed analysis of Ancient Greek temporal expressions which supersedes all previous studies.

This book introduces Proto-Indo-European, describes how it was reconstructed from its descendant languages, and shows what it reveals about the people who spoke it between 5,500 and 8,000 years ago.

This book offers an original account of the dynamics of syntactic change and the evolving structure of Old Spanish that combines rigorous manuscript-based investigation, quantitative analysis and a syntactic approach grounded in Minimalist thinking.

This book presents a collection of state-of-the-art work in corpus-based interpreting studies, highlighting international research on the properties of interpreted speech, based on naturalistic interpreting data.

Sociolinguistics in Ireland takes a fresh look at the interface of language and society in present-day Ireland.

The first book-length exploration of ''standard Englishes'' with contributions by the leading experts on each major variety of English discussed.

This is a collection of previously published essays on comparative syntax by the distinguished linguist Richard Kayne.

This book explores how the eponymous and original Lingua Franca was recognized as a potential linguistic template for future military and colonial pidgins.

This book explores first-hand Dunhuang manuscripts from a period of over 700 years, from 220 to 960, and as such makes a major contribution to passing on and promoting ancient Chinese culture.

Im Münchener Abkommen einigten sich das nationalsozialistische deutsche Reich, das faschistische Italien und die Demokratien England und Frankreich im September 1938 auf die Zerschlagung der im Versailler Vertrag gegründeten und völkerrechtlich garantierten Tschechoslowakei.