Historical and comparative linguistics

A central debate about the description of auxiliary selection concerns the regularity of auxiliary selection from a typological perspective.

This book is a thorough study of Martin Luther and what he wrote about the Jewish people.

This book offers a truly interdisciplinary discussion on the relationship between the vocal and the instrumental in music and other arts and in everyday communication alike.

This book presents rich information on Romanian mythology and folklore, previously under-explored in Western scholarship, placing the source material within its historical context and drawing comparisons with European and Indo-European culture and mythological tradition.

Martin Luther posted his Ninety-five Theses on the church door at Wittenberg in 1517.

This book explores the rich history of the keyword from its earliest manifestations (long before it appeared anywhere in Google Trends or library cataloging textbooks) in order to illustrate its implicit and explicit mediation of human cognition and communication processes.

Throughout the many political and social upheavals of the early modern era, names were words to conjure by, articulating significant historical trends and helping individuals and societies make sense of often dramatic periods of change.

Charts the long history of resentment, from its emergence to its establishment as the word of the moment.

Drop the textbook formality and chat with the locals in France's everyday language-from common words for meeting and greeting to colorful insults.

Have you ever wondered how the Lord sustained Martin Luther through one of the most personally and spiritually intense times in the history of Christendom?

Thousands of Names and the Blessings They Can ImpartThis unique guide includes 6,000-plus names from all corners of the globe, and each entry illuminates the name s distinctive spiritual, historical, and cultural background its poetry.

Russian Social Science Reader is one of a series designed for non-linguists who need knowledge of the Russian language in order to pursue their interests in fields other than language or literature.

In 1517, Martin Luther set off what has been called, at least since the nineteenth century, the Protestant Reformation.

This volume contains a set of articles based on papers selected from those delivered at the 20th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL, Edinburgh 2018).

Thetics and Categoricals do not belong to the categories of German grammar.

This volume drawn from the 20th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL, Edinburgh 2018) focuses on the role of language contact in the history of English.

This interdisciplinary volume explores the unique role of the sociohistorical factors of isolation and contact in motivating change in the varieties of Spanish worldwide.

"e;All families and genera"e;: Exploring the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts aims at exploring scientific writing in late Modern English.

While much of the literature has focused on explaining diachronic variation and change, the fact that sometimes change does not seem to happen has received much less attention.

This volume explores potential paths in historical sociolinguistics, with a particular focus on the inter-related areas of methodological innovations, hitherto un- or under-explored textual resources, and theoretical advancements and challenges.

Language-contact phenomena in Mesoamerica and adjacent regions present an exciting field for research that has the potential to significantly contribute to our understanding of language contact and the role that it plays in language change.

The past few decades have witnessed an unprecedented surge of interest in the language of the Late Modern English period.

This book focuses on contemporary sociolinguistic approaches to Spanish dialectology.

South America was populated relatively recently, probably around 15,000 years ago.

In this third of three volumes addressing Luther's outlaw God, Steven D.

Presented on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, this collection of essays honors the life and work of Dr.

This volume explores changing norms and conventions in the English language, as displayed in a broad range of historical data from more than five centuries.

This volume focuses on the grammaticalization of the definite article in German.

The emergence of Modern Hebrew as a spoken language constitutes a unique event in modern history: a language which for generations only existed in the written mode underwent a process popularly called "e;revival"e;, acquiring native speakers and becoming a language spoken for everyday use.

Located near Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, Palenque is a former Afro-Hispanic maroon community that has recently attracted much national and international attention.

Classification is a popular topic in typological, descriptive and theoretical linguistics.

Some would argue that there is no need for yet another biography of Martin Luther.

By almost any reckoning, the Ninety-Five Theses ranks as the most important text of the Reformation, if not in substance at least in impact.

Ethics is the culmination of Dietrich Bonhoeffers theological and personal odyssey and one of the most important works of Christian ethics of the last century.

The Reformation-era writings that make up the Lutheran Confessions remain lively resources for Christian ministry and mission today.

Discovering reliable information about women in early Christianity is a challenging enterprise.

Gender in English changed dramatically from the elaborate system found in Old English to the very simple he/she/it-alternation in use from (late) Middle English onwards.

Shape up your English with thousands of idiomsWhether you are a learner of English who is having difficulty understanding expressions in everyday speech or a native speaker who wants to expand your written or spoken range, you need a comprehensive reference for idioms, common phrases, and sayings of American English.

Sixteen church historians here examine Martin Luther in an uncommon waynot as Reformer or theologian but as pastor.

This book presents an overview of sociolinguistic research in England.

This book discusses evolution of the human brain, the origin of speech and language.

Learn all the sign language slang you've always wanted to know with this fun English-ASL phrasebook for the modern era.

With an emphasis on exploring measurable aspects of ancient narratives, Maths Meets Myths sets out to investigate age-old material with new techniques.

This lively and engaging book, set in the historical context of centuries of migration and multilingualism in Berlin, explores the relationship between language and migration.

This book explores many of the unanswered questions surrounding the original and eponymous Lingua Franca, a language spoken by peoples across the Mediterranean and North Africa for nearly three centuries.

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This book offers an original account of the dynamics of syntactic change and the evolving structure of Old Spanish that combines rigorous manuscript-based investigation, quantitative analysis and a syntactic approach grounded in Minimalist thinking.