Historical and comparative linguistics

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

This book is a detailed study of the possessive semantic space within the framework of construction grammar.

Francis Lodwick FRS (1619-94) was a prosperous merchant, bibliophile, writer, thinker, and member of the Royal Society.

South Asia is home to a large number of languages and dialects.

Booklist Top of the List Reference Source The heir and successor to Eric Partridge's brilliant magnum opus, The Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, this two-volume New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is the definitive record of post WWII slang.

This book approaches the field of contrastive linguistics from a comparative and robust perspective that combines the tenets of construction grammar and cognitive linguistics.

Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) is one of the founding figures of analytic philosophy, whose contributions to logic, philosophical semantics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mathematics set the agenda for future generations of theorists in these and related areas.

Shape up your English with thousands of idiomsWhether you are a learner of English who is having difficulty understanding expressions in everyday speech or a native speaker who wants to expand your written or spoken range, you need a comprehensive reference for idioms, common phrases, and sayings of American English.

Das Buch enthält eine ohne Spezialkenntnisse verständliche Einführung in die problematische Geschichte der Laryngaltheorie, ferner ausführliche Einführungen in die phonologischen, indogermanistischen und germanistischen Grundlagen.

This book provides an introduction to the Meroitic language and writing system.

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

Writing Systems and Phonetics provides students with a critical understanding of the writing systems of the world.

Winner of the 2022 Ab Imperio Award

Hoping to unite all of humankind and revolutionize the world, Ludwik Zamenhof launched a new international language called Esperanto from late imperial Russia in 1887.

The highly frequent word items TO and OF are often conceived merely as prepositions, carrying little meaning in themselves.

Sixteen church historians here examine Martin Luther in an uncommon waynot as Reformer or theologian but as pastor.

The first Symposium on Germanic Linguistics was organized at the University of Chicago by Jan Terje Faarlund.

Building on Raymond Williams' iconic "e;Keywords"e; released in 1975, Jeffries and Walker show how some pivotal words significantly increased in use and evolved in meaning during the years of the 'New Labour' project.

Vowel Harmony and Correspondence Theory covers the major issues in the generative analysis of vowel harmony and vowel harmony typology.

Band 5 enthält Nachträge zu den Bänden 1 bis 4 sowie eine erweiterte und überarbeitete Gesamtbibliographie.

The book presents an analysis of selected domains of morphosyntactic variation in a 250,000 word collection of the Middle English Paston Letters (1421-1503) from a historical sociolinguistic point of view.

The Manual of Galician Linguistics provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of the current situation of the Galician language and introduces its readers to the most important topics of current linguistic research on Galician.

Einen bedeutsamen Beitrag zur Erforschung des Wortschatzes der frankokreolischen Idiome im Indischen Ozean, die sich im 17.

1522 hielt Martin Luther in der Schlosskirche zu Weimar zwei Predigten, aus denen seine Schrift "Von weltlicher Obrigkeit" (1523) hervorging.

Based on corpus data, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of a morphological phenomenon in Modern English, Combining Forms (CFs).