Historical and comparative linguistics

To the pioneer folk of Upper and Lower Canada-Loyalists, "e;late"e; Loyalists, and the hordes of land-seekers-living in what seemed like religious destitution, various American Baptist missionary associations in Massachusetts, Vermont, and New York State sent missionary preachers in the decade after 1800.

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

With contributions from world-renowned researchers, this book delves into how to best describe the phenomena of mass-count distinction.

A New York Times bestseller, The Sound of Gravel is the remarkable true story of one girl's coming-of-age in a polygamist Mormon Doomsday cult.

Appraisal is the way language users express their attitude towards things, people, behaviour or ideas.

Linguistic Planets of Belief presents a way for people to notice, examine, and question the role language plays in identifying, recognizing, and understanding those around them.

The book provides an introduction to an interdisciplinary field of inquiry that can be called "e;global linguistics"e; (GL).

Written texts of the Iliad and the Odyssey achieved an unprecedented degree of standardization after 150 BCE, but what about Homeric texts prior to the emergence of standardized written texts?

This book brings together three perspectives on language and space that are quite well-researched within themselves, but which so far are lacking productive interconnections.

This book presents an overview of sociolinguistic research in England.

Explores categories, constructions, and change in the syntax of English, both past and present, methodologically and theoretically.

The first full-length treatment of the history of comment clauses in English, providing a complex conception of their development.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of Chinese medicine terminology translation, defining the most central concepts in Chinese traditional medicine, providing simplified Chinese characters, Mandarin Pronunciation in pinyin, citations for 111 of the most key concepts in traditional Chinese medicine and culture.

In Motion and the English Verb, a study of the expression of motion in medieval English, Judith Huber provides extensive inventories of verbs used in intransitive motion meanings in Old and Middle English, and discusses these in terms of the manner-salience of early English.

This book offers readers a new way of thinking about the unique syntactic, semantic and phonological structure of Singapore English.

The notes taken by Saussure's student Emile Constantin were not available to the editors of the published Cours de linguistique generale (1916), and came to light only after the second world war.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

Durch Androhung und Ausübung von Gewalt für Recht und Frieden zu sorgen gehört nach protestantischer Tradition zu den eigenständigen, jedoch ethisch zu verantwortenden Aufgaben des Staates (Barmen V).

This is the first full biography of James Rendel Harris (1852-1941), Bible and patristic scholar, manuscript collector, Quaker theologian, devotional writer, traveller, folklorist, and relief worker.

The series builds an extensive collection of high quality descriptions of languages around the world.

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The first book to offer a universal linguistic theory of poetic meter.

The interactions and multiple identities of indigenous and Mediterranean communities in Southern Gaul come to life through sociolinguistics and archaeology.

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This book provides a comprehensive overview of current research in African languages, drawing on insights from anthropological linguistics, typology, historical and comparative linguistics, and sociolinguistics.

The contributions of this book deal with the issue of language variation.

Von Mainz bis Worms dient »der Schambes«, der Klassiker unter der hiesigen Mundart-Literatur, dem stillen Amüsieren und regen Gebrauch: Der Ur-Rhoihesse – mithin der angesprochene Schambes (= rheinhessische Verball­hornung des Vornamens Jean-Baptiste) – kann seinen Schimpf-Wortschatz ergänzen, während die jüngere Generation endlich das Schennen (= Schimpfen) der Großeltern versteht.