Historical and comparative linguistics

The English language has changed dramatically over the past 500 years, making it increasingly difficult for students to read Chaucer's works.

This book, first published in 1933, examines the dialect of the people of Byers Green in County Durham.

The phonology, morphology and lexicon of late Zhou Chinese are examined in this volume.

The first major study of politeness in Ancient Greece and Rome, from effusive greetings to aggressive humour and friendly banter.

Seeing the restrictions of former studies in Comparative Literature and aiming to amend these deficiencies, the author of this book mainly discusses the major theoretical significance and academic value of the Variation Theory in the whole process of the development of Comparative Literature in the world.

The powers of death are closer than we thought.

Luther's transformational idea of justification by faith alone was often misunderstood and misrepresented in the early years of the Reformation.

This book offers a new perspective on the role played by colonial descriptions and translation of Caribbean plants in representations of Caribbean culture.

This book provides useful strategies for language learning, researching and the understanding of social factors that influence human behavior.

This study examines effects of L1 typology on the interlanguage of L2 learners of English.

In the intercessions, the assembly asks God to respond to the needs of the whole world.

This book gives fresh insight into the diverse ways in which the transmission of minority and heritage languages is carried out in a range of sociolinguistic contexts.

Cross-linguistic studies on relative constructions in European languages are often centred on standard varieties as described in reference grammars.

This book proposes that phonological contrast, in particular the robustness of a phonemic contrast, does not depend solely on the presence of minimal pairs, but is instead affected by a set of phonetic, usage-based, and systemic factors.

Band 8 der auf 15 Bände veranschlagten Neubearbeitung des Deutschen Fremdwörterbuchs.

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

The Earliest English provides a student-friendly introduction to Old English and the earliest periods of the history of the English Language as it evolved before 1215.

This volume collects ten studies that propose modern methodologies of analyzing and explaining language change in the case of various morpho-phonological and morpho-syntactic characteristics.

From the middle of the twentieth century, dozens of medievalists and other performers have recorded early English.

A comprehensive and up-to-date account of the languages of ancient Sicily by an international team of experts.

Linguistics and Literary History systematically explores the advantages of an inter-disciplinary approach within the broad area of English studies.

This book presents an investigation of language contact, focusing on Northwestern China.

As the fifth volume of a multi-volume set on the Chinese language, this book studies the development of monosyllables and polysyllables in Middle Chinese and the overall evolution of lexical meanings during the period.

Epic is dialectally mixed but Ionic at its core.

Die sprach- und kulturgeschichtliche Studie untersucht das Konzept des Hochdeutschen im Sprachnormierungsdiskurs des 18.

Das Lutherjahrbuch ist das bedeutendste Organ der internationalen Lutherforschung und wird im Auftrag der Luther-Gesellschaft e.

Prompted by the 'linguistic turn' of the late 20th century, intellectual and conceptual historians continue to devote a great deal of attention to the study of concepts in history.