Historical and comparative linguistics

This book describes the history in late 19th-century Russia and immigration to Canada of an ethnic and religious group known as Doukhobors, or Spirit Wrestlers.

An authoritative and detailed survey of the languages of the North American Indians.

Overt subjects are usually considered as a property of finite clauses.

Open publication The volume deals with previously undescribed morphosyntactic variations and changes appearing in settings involving language contact.

Two common questions generally rise to the surface for those seeking healing: Is it God's will to heal?

This volume brings together two highly researched but also highly controversial concepts, those of politeness and implicature.

This book presents a comprehensive and critical overview of historical phonology as it stands today.

Drawing on innovative research, the book reveals the wealth and breadth of the study of word-formation, both theoretically and empirically.

This handbook includes many practical proposals that will expand and solidify notions of who hospitality ministers are and why they matter.

First published in 1937, this book supplies a history of the living growth of the English language from Old English to the medieval period.

This book concisely describes ways in which today's standard British English speech differs from the upper-class accent of the last century, Received Pronunciation, which many now find old-fashioned or even comic.

Relatively little is known about Africa's endangered languages.

Five hundred years ago Martin Luther wrote his Ninety-Five Theses, inaugurating the Protestant Reformation, and with it exemplified an unflinching devotion to return to the Word of God as the ultimate authority.

Provides students with an engaging and thorough overview of the history of Spanish and its development from Latin.

Is the study of language ideologically neutral?

The present volume deals with hitherto unexplored issues on the interaction of morphology and syntax.

This collection of fifteen insightful essays examines the complexity and diversity of Quaker antislavery attitudes across three centuries, from 1658 to 1890.

This book discusses the constructions used in Belarusian and Lithuanian to express predicative Possession.

This book proposes a new synthesis of the functions of proper names, from a semantic, pragmatic and syntactic perspective.

This book, addressed primarily to students and researchers in semantics, cognitive linguistics, English, and Australian languages, is a comparative study of the polysemy patterns displayed by percussion/impact ('hitting') verbs in English and Warlpiri (Pama-Nyungan, Central Australia).

In diesem Buch für Studienanfänger, aber auch für fortgeschrittene Lerner werden verschiedene Sprachen, vor allem Deutsch, Englisch, Französisch und Griechisch, auf allen sprachlichen Ebenen kontrastiv miteinander verglichen.

Metaphor Networks focuses on the historical evolution of metaphor and proposes new theories on language change based on substantial empirical data.

Luther Refracted speaks to the currency that Luther’s life and thought continue to enjoy in today’s Christian reflection.

This book is a cross-linguistic study of the syntax of yes-no questions and their answers, drawing on data from a wide range of languages with particular focus on English, Finnish, Swedish, Thai, and Chinese.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, die Vikare und jungen Pfarrer im Predigerseminar der Bekennenden Kirche in Finkenwalde lebten eine neue Form christlicher und theologischer Existenz.

The chapters in this book elucidate the nature of semi-fixed formulaic sequences; how the meaning of formulaic expressions can change over time; how readers interpret formulaic expressions in first and second languages; how modern and postmodern authors use traditional genres and tales to challenging effect; and how formulaic patterns involving particular words can underlie the texture and meanings of entire novels.

Vastly informative and vastly entertainingA scholarly and fascinating book.