Historical and comparative linguistics

The book identifies and assesses the importance of a range of influences on child language acquisition and development, paying particular attention to situational influences.

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This book presents the findings from original research about court interpreting in the disciplines of humanities and social sciences from a linguistic perspective.

This book presents an account of object shift, a word order phenomenon found in most of the Scandinavian languages where an object occurs unexpectedly to the left and not to the right of a sentential adverbial.

Are you a beaver cleaver or the office bike?

The first introduction to clitics, providing a complete summary of their properties and their uses.

This book is an innovative guide to quantitative, corpus-based research in historical and diachronic linguistics.

This edition brings together some lesser known grammaticalization paths travelled by 'come' and 'go' in familiar and less familiar languages.

Through a detailed examination of proverbs related to money, this book offers a comprehensive critique of the prevailing everyday ideologies and discourses on money and paves the way toward establishing a new set of proverbs more conducive to financial equality and human well-being.

With more than two thousand languages spread over its territory, multilingualism is a common reality in Africa.

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This is an analysis of the promises and contradictions surrounding contemporary minority language policy.

This volume brings together contributions selected from papers delivered at the 21st International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL, Leiden 2021).

The papers deal with a range of questions raised for linguistic theory and description by polysynthetic languages.

This 2005 book explores the role of British dialects in the genesis and subsequent history of postcolonial varieties of English.

The Amazing Secrets of the Phrases We Use EverydayPhraseology is the ultimate collection of everything you never knew about the wonderful phrases found in the English language.

This volume on Greek synchronic etymology offers a set of papers evidencing the cultural significance of etymological commitment in ancient and medieval literature.

Comparative linguistics and grammaticalization theory both belong to the broader category of historical linguistics, yet few linguists practice both.

Japanese Language, Gender and Ideology is a collection of previously unpublished articles by established as well as promising young scholars in Japanese language and gender studies.

Das Buch untersucht eine Auswahl populärer laienlinguistischer Werke über 'gutes Deutsch' unter der Fragestellung, ob die unterschiedlichen politischen Systeme und Ideologien in Deutschland zwischen 1923 und 1967 die Sprach- und Stilauffassung in den Sprachratgebern und Stillehren beeinflusst haben.

This book traces the changes in argument alignment that have taken place in Aramaic during its 3000-year documented history.

The 'correct' use of English has been the subject of vigorous debate in recent years.

This new history of the French language allows the reader to see how the language has evolved for themselves.

This book takes an original look at what happens when speakers of different varieties of English interact with one another.

Spanglish-a hybrid of Spanish and English-is intricately interwoven with the history and culture of Latinos, the largest and fastest-growing minority group in the United States.

The Oxford Handbook of Languages of the Caucasus is an introduction to and overview of the linguistically diverse languages of southern Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia.

Language, Literacy, and Technology explores how technology matters to language and the ways we use it.

This book explores the origin and evolution of speech.