Historical and comparative linguistics

This book, based on revised papers originally delivered at the VII International Systemic Functional Workshop in Valencia in 1995, explores some of the choices open to speakers and writers for the expression of meaning in different socio-cultural contexts.

Although there is a substantial amount of linguistic research on standard language acquisition, little attention has been given to the mechanisms underlying second dialect acquisition.

This volume contains selected papers from the 27th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL-27), which was held at the University of California, Irvine, on February 20-22, 1997.

This volume presents a selection from the papers given at the 13th International Conference on Historical Linguistics.

This monograph aims to close the gap in our knowledge of the nature and pace of grammatical change during the formative period of today’s Indo-Aryan languages.

Over the past 35 years urban sociolinguistics has developed upon the base of detailed case studies carried out mainly in western countries.

The earliest use of the term "e;grammaticalization"e; was to refer to the process whereby lexical words of a language (such as English keep in "e;he keeps bees"e;) become grammatical forms (such as the auxiliary in "e;he keeps looking at me"e;).

Even More Englishes comprises Manfred Görlach’s more recent papers devoted to general problems of the world language and to individual varieties.

New Zealand English (NZE) is one of the younger post-colonial varieties of English.

Indian English, or rather, the forms of English used in India, have long been a topic of interest for laymen and scholars.

New Zealand English is currently one of the most researched varieties of English world-wide.

Basic notions in the field of creole studies, including the category of “creole languages” itself, have been questioned in recent years: Can creoles be defined on structural or on purely sociohistorical grounds?

This book presents an enlightening collection of papers contributing to theoretical discussions across many topics within the study of Romance Languages and Linguistics.

The papers in this collection derive from the Annual Symposia on Arabic Linguistics held in Stanford (1999) and Berkeley (2000).

This brief monograph explores the historical motivations for two sets of phonological changes in some varieties of Romance: restructured voicing of intervocalic /p t k/, and palatalization of initial /l/ and /n/.

Every language includes layers of lexical and grammatical elements that entered it at different times in the more or less distant past.

Languages are dying at an alarming rate all over the world.

This volume is a collection of seventeen papers, on languages of all three indigenous Caucasian families as well as other languages spoken in the territory of the former Soviet Union.

The Mbugu (or Ma'a) language (Tanzania) is one of the few genuine mixed languages, reputedly combining Bantu grammar with Cushitic vocabulary.

This volume, a detailed empirical study of the creole English spoken in the Bahamian capital, Nassau, contributes to our understanding of both urban creoles and tense-aspect marking in creoles.

This monograph comprises eight papers, most of which originated as presentations given at international conferences or guest lectures.

This book provides the first extensive description of Texas Alsatian, a critically-endangered Texas German dialect, as spoken in Medina County in the 21st century.

Events of putting things in places, and removing them from places, are fundamental activities of human experience.

This volume presents a collection of in-depth cross-varietal studies on a broad spectrum of grammatical features in English varieties spoken all over the world.

The International Conference on Historical Linguistics has always been a forum that reflects the general state of the art in the field, and the 2009 edition, held in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, fully allows the conclusion that the field has been thriving over the years.

This volume brings together eleven studies on the history of language and writing in the North Sea area, with focus on contacts and interchanges through time.

The volume contributes to historical pragmatics an important chapter on what has so far not been paid adequate attention to, i.

This is a new contribution to a theory of reiteration in natural languages, with a special focus on creoles.

The question of language origin has fascinated people for years.

Worldwide interest in Yiddish has often concentrated on its secular forms of expression: its literature, its theater, its journalism and its political-party associations.

The question of language origin has fascinated people for years.

This collection brings together the best papers presented at recent meetings of the Language Origins Society.

This volume brings together 15 papers on the evolution and origin of language.

A collection of papers in honor of Eva Hajičová, who represents the continuation of the Prague School tradition in the methodological context of formal and computational linguistics.

In the era of information technology, the need to communicate data effetively and precisely has given a boost to research in terminology.

Is Africa a linguistic area (Heine & Leyew 2008)?

Containing all new material and published for the American Dialect Society's centennial celebration (1889-1989), this volume bings together in one place, as no previously published work has, current approaches to the general problems of language distribution and variation.

Hans den Besten (1948-2010) made numerous contributions to Afrikaans linguistics over a period of nearly three decades.

This book is a 'must read' for those who are looking for fresh perspectives on the process of creolization of language.

This book presents a comprehensive survey of historically attested relative clause constructions from a diachronic typological perspective.

This volume offers novel insights into linguistic diversity in the domains of spatial and temporal reference, searching for uniformity amongst diversity.

This is an interdisciplinary volume that focuses on the central topic of the representation of events, namely cross-cultural differences in representing time and space, as well as various aspects of the conceptualisation of space and time.

The fifteen papers selected for Volume II of English Historical Linguistics 2008 have a different emphasis than those in Volume I (CILT 314, Lenker et al.

This handbook makes available short grammatical sketches of Australian languages.

This handbook makes available short grammatical sketches of Australian languages.

This handbook makes available short grammatical sketches of Australian languages.

Much theorizing in language change research is made without taking into account dialect data.

Quantitative methods in linguistics, which the protean American structuralist linguist Morris Swadesh introduced in the 1950s, have become increasingly popular and have opened the world of languages to interdisciplinary approaches.

This investigation contributes to issues in the study of second language transmission by considering the well-documented historical case of Anglo-Norman.

This collective volume focuses on the latest developments in the study of grammaticalization and related processes of change such as degrammaticalization, constructionalization, lexicalization, and petrification.