Linguists have typically studied language change at the aggregate level of speech communities, yet key mechanisms of change such as analogy and automation operate within the minds of individual language users.
This book argues that a tribe of the primitive society is formed because of kinship, while a state of the civilized society is formed because of language.
From their formulation in the sixteenth century through the present day, every generation of Lutheran leadership has grappled with the centrality and importance of the Lutheran confessional writings.
This unique collection of articles in honor of Marianne Mithun represents the very latest in research on language contact and language change in the Indigenous languages of the Americas.
The syntactic periphery has become one of the most important areas of research in syntactic theory in recent years, due to the emergence of new research programmes initiated by Rizzi, Kayne and Chomsky.
This book reconsiders the question of Martin Luthers relationship with Rome in all its sixteenth-century manifestations: the early-modern city he visited as a young man, the ancient republic and empire whose language and literature he loved, the Holy Roman Empire of which he was a subject, and the sacred seat of the papacy.
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 provides new insights into various issues on prosody in contact situations, contact referring here to the L2 acquisition process as well as to situations where two language systems may co-exist.
With the extraordinary growth of Christianity in the global south has come the rise of "e;reverse missions,"e; in which countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America send missionaries to re-evangelize the West.
As the sixth volume of a multivolume set on the Chinese language, this book studies the influence of foreign culture on Middle Chinese lexicon and the development of synonyms, idioms, and proverbs during the period.
The Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English is a revised and expanded edition of the Weatherford Awardwinning Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English, published in 2005 and known in Appalachian studies circles as the most comprehensive reference work dedicated to Appalachian vernacular and linguistic practice.
Si desde hace unos años el paradigma de las Tradiciones Discursivas se está aplicando con un cierto éxito en distintos campos de la lingüística, sobre todo en la lingüística histórica de las lenguas románicas, se echa en falta todavía una aclaración de la relación entre la tradición de los textos y el cambio lingüístico, sobre todo la evolución gramatical.
A smorgasbord of surprising, obscure, and exotic words In this delightful encore to the national bestseller A Word A Day, Anu Garg, the founder of the wildly popular A Word A Day Web site (wordsmith.
This Handbook captures the essentials of English historical linguistics: theories, methodologies, materials, processes of language change, and the research process.
In this book, the author examines the transformation of the Pacific language region under the impact of colonization, westernization and modernization.
