Historical and comparative linguistics

Academic vocabulary is in fashion, as witnessed by the increasing number of books published on the topic.

Glossen sind Wort- oder Sacherklärungen, die in derselben oder einer anderen Sprache (marginal) an den Rand oder (interlinear) zwischen die Zeilen eines Textes geschrieben sind.

The dramatic unfolding of events after Martin Luther's revolutionary act led to the ultimate, and seemingly irreparable, fissure with Roman Catholicism: excommunication and schism.

Der Thesenanschlag Martin Luthers jährte sich 2017 zum 500.

This collection brings together work from scholars across sociolinguistics, World Englishes and linguistic landscapes to reflect on developments and future directions in Irish English, building on the ground-breaking contributions of Jeffrey Kallen to the discipline.

Los aspectos relacionados con el diseño y la explotación de los corpus han adquirido una importancia esencial en la metodología de la investigación en lingüística diacrónica.

Analyzes how fangyan (local Chinese languages or dialects) were central to the creation of modern Chinese nationalism.

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

Este libro reune contribuciones de destacados investigadores de la linguistica hispanica para ofrecer un panorama integral de los castellanos del Peru, incluidos algunos que han sido tradicionalmente objeto de discriminacion, como el castellano andino, el amazonico y el afroperuano.

An engaging account of how new languages come into being, arguing that children are the driving force.

Reformieren ist eine fortlaufende Aufgabe für alle christlichen Konfessionen.

Cinnamon and Cassia, the "e;Spices of Life"e;, together constitute one of the most widely used group of spices.

This book is concerned with comparing morphological paradigms between languages in order to establish areal and genealogical relationships.

Explanations for sound change have traditionally focused on identifying the inception of change, that is, the identification of perturbations of the speech signal, conditioned by physiological constraints on articulatory and/or auditory mechanisms, which affect the way speech sounds are analyzed by the listener.

This volume brings together state-of-the-art research on population movement and language change from a team of international scholars.

A theoretical study of linguistic structure in literature focusing on verse and narrative.

Originally published in 1991.

Jane Dawson has written the definitive life of John Knox, a leader of the Protestant Reformation in sixteenth-century Scotland.

Im Oktober 1529 wurde Marburg für vier Tage zum Mittelpunkt der protestantischen Welt.

Scholars routinely describe how Martin Luther prioritized the books of the New Testament that he believed most truly represented the gospel, the Living Word of Jesus Christ.

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Originally published as the Continuum Companion to Historical Linguistics, this book brings together a number of leading scholars who provide a combination of different approaches to current and new issues in historical linguistics, while supplying an exhaustive and up-to-date coverage of sub-fields traditionally regarded as central to historical linguistics research.

Despite Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s earlier theological achievements and writings, it was his correspondence and notes from prison that electrified the postwar world six years after his death in 1945.

This book provides an insight into the standardisation process of German in eighteenth-century Austria.