Historical and comparative linguistics

Missionary Grammars and the Language of Translation in Korea (1876-1910) embraces the Enlightenment period in Korea (1876-1910) after the opening of the so-called Hermit Nation in describing the Korean language and missionary works.

Half the world s population speaks a language that has evolved from a single, prehistoric mother tongue.

In The sense of Early Modern writing, Mark Robson pursues the relation between the concept of the 'early modern' and modernity, tracing the complex interactions of post-Romantic, philosophical aesthetics and early modern rhetoric and poetics.

This volume is the first handbook devoted entirely to the multitude of frameworks adopted in the field of morphology, including Minimalism, Optimality Theory, Network Morphology, Cognitive Grammar, and Canonical Typology.

A comprehensive and accessible introduction to statistics in corpus linguistics, covering multiple techniques of quantitative language analysis and data visualisation.

The aim of the book is to collect and make available to the public recent studies on Roumanian in the framework of Generative Grammar.

Ancient Greek is commonly considered a 'synthetic' or 'inflectional' language, that is, a language with a high morpheme-per-word ratio.

This book investigates a set of marginal syntactic structures which have been singularly influential in the development of generative theory, spotlighting lesser-studied languages of the Indic family while emphasizing implications for linguistic theory more broadly.

First published in 1990, this collection investigates grammatical categories associated with the verb as they are used by speakers and writers in real discourses and texts.

Explores the relationship between the present tense and the conceptualisation of ''presence'' in Greek from a cognitive perspective.

With more than 7,000 up-to-date phrases, this dictionary covers situations from talking to a doctor to ordering a meal, and helps learners communicate personal feelings, and make small talk.

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the syntax of old Romanian written in English and targeted at a non-Romanian readership.

The contributors to this volume cover the international range of scholarship in the field of Historical Linguistics, as well as some of its major themes.

A language of Indic origin heavily infuenced by European idioms for many centuries now, Romani provides an interesting experimental field for students of language contact, linguistic minorities, standardization, and typology.

There are far more syntactically distinct languages than we might have thought; yet there are far fewer than there might have been.

This book represents the culmination of the author's work to date - it incorporates and updates previous articles and adds much new material.

Because developments in informal logic have been based, for the most part, on idealized and abstract models, the tools available for argument analysis are not easily adapted to the needs of everyday argumentation.

This collection of 15 articles reflects Edward Keenan's long-standing research interests in the comparative syntax of the languages of the world.

Baptists are not often thought of as leading theologians and practitioners of worship.

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This book addresses recent developments in the study of tense from a cross-paradigm and cross-linguistic point of view.

How does reason fit into the Christian worldview?

This collection of papers consolidates the observation that linguistic change typically is actualized step by step: any structural innovation being introduced, accepted, and generalized, over time, in one grammatical environment after another, in a progression that can be understood by reference to the markedness values and the ranking of the conditioning features.

The book studies general name theoretical questions and universal features of personal name giving and also provides a description of the personal name system of the medieval Kingdom of Hungary.

This book considers how languages, peoples and cultures in the Near East interacted over the millennium between Alexander and Muhammad.

This clear and accessible text provides a complete introduction to basic linguistic terms and descriptions of language structures.

Few topics of scientific enquiry have attracted more attention in the last decade than the origin and evolution of language.

This is the first comprehensive treatment of the strategies employed in the world's languages to express predicative possession, as in "e;the boy has a bat"e;.

Argument-marking, morphological partitives have been the topic of language specific studies, while no cross-linguistic or typological analyses have been conducted.