Historical and comparative linguistics

This study describes third person reference in the fourth century Latin text commonly known as the Itinerarium Egeriae, focusing on what is traditionally labelled demonstratives (hic, iste, ille, is, ipse and idem), bare NPs, and null pronouns.

The Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morphology is intended as a companion volume to The Oxford Handbook of Compounding (OUP 2009) Written by distinguished scholars, its 41 chapters aim to provide a comprehensive and thorough overview of the study of derivational morphology.

An original volume focusing on British–American differences in the structure of words and sentences.

While it is accepted that the pronunciation of English shows wide regional differences, there is a marked tendency to under-estimate the extent of the variation in grammar that exists within the British Isles today.

Intellectual History and the Identity of John Dee In April 1995, at Birkbeck College, University of London, an interdisciplinary colloquium was held so that scholars from diverse fields and areas of expertise could 1 exchange views on the life and work of John Dee.

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Using increasingly sophisticated databases, this volume explores grammatical usage from the Late Modern period in a broad context.

This book traces the evolution of the Indo-European verbal system from the early proto-language to the period of the first Greek texts.

This volume explores the grammar of Niuean, an endangered Polynesian language spoken on the island of Niue and in New Zealand, with a focus on the issue of predication.

Als Diakon und Referent in der Kirchenleitung kommt der promovierte Theologe Thomas Hanstein mit vielem bis dahin Ungeahntem in Kontakt und geht deshalb auf Abstand zum Kirchendienst.

As the second volume of a two-volume set that re-examines nouns and verbs in Chinese, this book investigates a wide range of linguistic phenomena in Chinese and other languages to substantiate the verbs-as-nouns theory proposed by the author.

This inter-disciplinary book is the first in an Irish context to address issues connected with the 'super-diversifying' of language and society engendered by recent and historical migrations.

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

This book looks at the relationship between linguistic universals and language change.

Welchen Stellenwert hat die Kenntnis einer Grammatik für das Verhältnis des Menschen zur Welt und zu sich selbst?

This practical introduction to word history investigates every aspect of where words come from and how they change.

Wissenschaftliche Texte der vormodernen"e; Welt konfrontieren die modernen Bearbeiter und Rezipienten mit besonderen Problemen: Eine Ubertragung in den zeitgenossischen Wissenschaftsjargon ebnet womoglich die Fremdheit der Konzepte ungebuhrlich ein, wahrend eine die Perspektive der Texte selbst betonende Wiedergabe Gefahr lauft, fachfremde Interessenten an inadaquate, oft veraltete, wenn auch leichter lesbare Ubersetzungen zu verweisen.

Teiwa is a non-Austronesian ('Papuan') language spoken on the island of Pantar, in eastern Indonesia, located just north of Timor island.

This book describes the earliest reconstructable stages of the prehistory of English, focusing specifically on linguistic structure.

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

Historical sociolinguistics has successfully challenged the traditional focus on standardization in linguistic historiography.

Jacob Bohme (1575-1624) has been recognized as one of the internationally most influential German authors of the Early Modern period.

Joseph Conrad, Jean Rhys, and Pramoedya Ananta Toer are writers renowned for crafting narratives of great technical skill that resonate with potent truths on the colonial condition.

This book comprises 20 chapters that have been divided into two distinct parts: language in educational contexts and language in cultural contexts.

Choosing the Jesus Way uncovers the history and religious experiences of the first American Indian converts to Pentecostalism.

Written entirely in Spanish, this is the ideal introduction to Spanish linguistics for students.

This volume offers qualitative as well as corpus-based quantitative studies on three domains of grammatical variation in the British Isles.

The fundamental, inalienable rights and privileges set forth in the Bill of Rights represent the very foundations of American liberty.

By exploring a rich array of Malay texts from novels and newspapers to poems and plays, Tom G.

As the first volume of a two- volume set that studies Chinese rhyme tables, this book focuses on their emergence, development, structure, and patterns.

Our world is full of fear: fear of death, public speaking, flying, drowning, failure, rejection, snakes, needles, heights, darkness, enclosed places, and countless more.

While 'social inclusion' and 'cultural diversity' circulate frenetically as buzzwords, are we really ready to accept that ideas about 'race' and 'ethnicity', rather than being a peripheral concern, are at the core of how a nation's heritage is represented and imagined?

This wide-ranging book presents the linguistic achievements of four major cultures to readers presumably conversant with modern theoretical linguistics.

Like Ripples on Water is, first of all, a book about Russian Baptists and their preaching.