Historical and comparative linguistics

Starting in 1498, contact between Ibero-Romance and Asian languages has taken place along a vast stretch of the coastlines of continental and insular Asia, producing a string of contact varieties which are among the least visible in the field of Creole Studies.

The volume brings together seventeen peer-reviewed, revised papers originally presented at the 16th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 16), held in August 2010 at the University of Pecs, Hungary.

This volume brings together current research by international scholars on the varieties of English spoken in Ireland.

This book offers an in-depth analysis of several features of spoken Indian English that are generally considered as 'typical', but have never before been studied empirically.

This first published full-scale study of the Ghanaian variety of West African Pidgin English (GhaPE) makes extensive use of hitherto neglected historical material and provides a synchronic account of GhaPE’s structure and sociolinguistics.

The current book intends to provide a flexible and comprehensive bibliographical tool to those scholars working or interested in Irish English.

I denne bog foretager forfatteren en undersøgelse af de fire afsnit i kong Alfreds The Old English Orosius, hvori gammelt dansk område beskrives.

This book focuses on the Norse-derived vocabulary in the works of Archbishop Wulfstan II of York (d.

This corpus-based study examines the use of support verb constructions in Old English and Old Irish.

This monograph investigates the syntax of the finite verb in Mocheno, a minority language spoken in a German speech island of Northern Italy.

This volume provides the first-ever comprehensive analysis of a potential variety of English, spoken in the Greek part of the Mediterranean island of Cyprus.

Nowadays, linguists do not question the existence of synchronic variation, and the dichotomy between synchrony and diachrony.

This book offers fresh perspectives on "e;shared grammaticalization"e;, a state whereby two or more languages have the source and the target of a grammaticalization process in common.

The focus of this volume is on the relation between synchrony and diachrony.

This work is composed of two parts.

This edition constitutes a reprint of Niels Ege's English translation of Rasmus Rask's prize essay of 1818, which appeared as volume XXVI in the Travaux du Cercle Linguistique de Copenhague in 1993.

Contributions from both well-known practitioners and new voices in the areas of language typology, historical linguistics, and function-based approaches to language description define this volume, as does its foci in two major geographical areas - southeast Asia and northwestern North America.

This volume applies a diachronic perspective to the verb and mainly deals with typological change affecting tense, aspect, mood and modality in a variety of Indo-European languages (Latin, Romance, Celtic, Germanic, Slavic, Indo-Iranian, Hittite, and Semitic) and the non-Indo-European Turkic, Amerindian and some Australian languages.

The study of ego-documents figures as a prominent theme in cutting-edge research in the Humanities.

From the Renaissance onwards, European scholars began to collect and study the various languages of the Old and the New Worlds.

This volume offers a coherent and detailed picture of the diachronic development of verbal categories of Old English, Old High German, and other Germanic languages.

Languages change and they keep changing as a result of communicative interactions and practices in the context of communities of language users.

This volume of selected papers from the 20th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (Osaka, Japan, July 2011) presents a set of stimulating and ground-breaking studies on a wide range of languages and language families.

The question of how language emerged is one of the most fascinating and difficult problems in science.

It is generally assumed that Creole languages form a separate category from the rest of the world's languages.

Uncovering the meaning of individual words or entire texts is a complex process that needs to take into consideration the multiple interactions of linguistic organization including orthography, morphology, syntax and, ultimately, pragmatics.

What is the range of diversity in linguistic types, what are the geographical distributions for the attested types, and what explanations, based on shared history or universals, can account for these distributions?

This book offers a study of long-term, intensive language contact between more than a dozen Mayan languages spoken in the lowlands of Guatemala, Southern Mexico and Belize.

The contributions of this volume offer new perspectives on the relation between syntax and information structure in the history of Germanic and Romance languages, focusing on English, German, Norwegian, French, Spanish and Portuguese, and both from a synchronic and a diachronic perspective.

Usage-based approaches to language have gained increasing attention in the last two decades.

The English language is changing every day and it is us - the individual speakers and writers - that drive those changes in small ways by choosing to use certain strings of words over others.

The papers in this volume aim at facilitating exchange between three fields of inquiry that are of great importance in historical linguistics: language change, (socio)linguistic research on variation, and contact linguistics.

Greenberg's (1954) concept of a 'Khoisan' language family, while heartily embraced by non-specialists, has been harshly criticized by linguists working on these languages.

Despite intensive research, negation remains elusive.

This monograph offers the first in-depth lexical and semantic analysis of motion verbs in their development from Latin to nine Romance languages - Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan, Occitan, Sardinian, and Raeto-Romance - demonstrating that the patterns of innovation and continuity attested in the data can be accounted for in cognitive linguistic terms.

This book is concerned with comparing morphological paradigms between languages in order to establish areal and genealogical relationships.

Since the 1980s theories and studies of grammaticalization have provided a major source of inspiration for the description and explanation of language change, giving rise to many publications and conferences.

This volume presents some of the latest research in colour studies by specialists across a wide range of academic disciplines.

The articles in this volume examine a number of critical issues in grammaticalization studies, including the relationship between grammaticalization and pragmaticalization, subjectification and intersubjectification, and grammaticalization and language contact.

This volume discusses topics of historical syntax from different theoretical perspectives, ranging from Indo-European studies to generative grammar, functionalism, and typology.

The case-studies assembled in these two volumes span a lifetime of research into the diachrony of grammar.

The volume presents an innovative approach to studies in Late Modern English by giving attention to variation and change in varieties of English on both sides of the Atlantic.

This lucid and theory-neutral introduction to the study of pidgins, creoles and mixed languages covers both theoretical and empirical issues pertinent to the field of contact linguistics.

Language Variation - European Perspectives V is based on papers presented at the Seventh International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 7), which was held in Trondheim, Norway from 26 to 28 June 2013.

Historical sociolinguistics has successfully challenged the traditional focus on standardization in linguistic historiography.

Construction Grammar as a framework offers a new perspective on traditional historical questions in diachronic linguistics and language change: how do new constructions arise, how should competition in diachronic variation be accounted for, how do constructions fall into disuse, and how do constructions change in general, formally and/or semantically, and with what implications for the language system as a whole?

Large-scale migration after WWII and the prominence of Jamaican Creole in the media have promoted its use all around the globe.

Traveling Conceptualizations is a monograph which is concerned with African cultural conceptualizations in Jamaican.

Although for some scholars the very possibility of syntactic reconstruction remains dubious, numerous studies have appeared reconstructing a variety of basic elements of Proto-Indo-European syntax based on evidence available particularly from ancient and/or archaic Indo-European languages.

This book is about the functional categories of three Caribbean creoles: Saramaccan, Haitian Creole and Papiamentu with two specific goals.