Historical and comparative linguistics

The modern and contemporary legacy of Luther's theology is a vital topic of continuing investigation, assessment, and construction.

This edited book examines the multilingual culture of medieval England, exploring its impact on the development of English and its textual manifestations from a multi-disciplinary perspective.

Der vorliegende Band versammelt Beiträge, die auf einer internationalen Tagung in der altehrwürdigen Erzabtei St.

This book describes the historical emergence and spread of the to-infinitive in English.

This book argues that Middle English - and hence Modern English - is a direct descendent of Anglo Norse, the language of Viking settlers who invaded and ruled the north and east of England (the so-called Danelaw) for about 200 years preceding the Norman conquest.

Cognitive linguists believe that metaphors are prevalent in human thought, while metaphorical structures are reflected at the linguistic level.

Methods of linguistic data collection are among the most central aspects in empirical linguistics.

This textbook was conceived and written under the authors' conviction that the feature of Greek grammar that lends itself most readily to understanding and discussion is syntax, especially the syntax of the verb and that such understanding has been unnecessarily complicated by the traditional use of a terminology derived more from the study of the Latin verb than the Greek.

Luther's transformational idea of justification by faith alone was often misunderstood and misrepresented in the early years of the Reformation.

More than 60 percent of all English words have Greek or Latin roots; in the vocabulary of the sciences and technology, the figure rises to more than 90 percent.

La importancia del estudio de la fraseología en general, y de la paremiología en particular, viene avalada tanto por el interés que han suscitado las unidades fraseológicas desde la Antigüedad como porque los investigadores del tema ponen de manifiesto que se trata de la piedra angular del lexicón y acervo cultural de toda lengua.

This collection of essays focuses on current approaches to variation and change in historical English grammar and lexicon.

Diese Einführung bietet einen Überblick über die Entwicklung der deutschen Sprache vom Althochdeutschen bis zum Frühneuhochdeutschen mit Ausblicken auf die jüngere Sprachgeschichte und die Gegenwartssprache.

Argues that Greek thinkers engaged with linguistic concepts developed by Mesopotamian scribes in a process leading to new discoveries.

Written by the world''s leading expert on Hausa, this book provides a lucid and comprehensive linguistic history of the language.

In this handbook, scholars from around the world offer an up-to-date account of the state of the art in different areas of onomastics, in a format that is both useful to specialists in related fields and accessible to the general reader.

The papers collected in this volume were first presented at the 14th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (Bergamo, 2006).

As rich as the development of the Spanish and Portuguese languages has been in Latin America, no single book has attempted to chart their complex history.

This volume comprises refereed papers and abstracts of the 8th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EVOLANG8), held in Utrecht on 14-17 April 2010.