Historical and comparative linguistics

This book is a new English translation of the two shortest, most controversial and perhaps most vibrant books in the Hebrew Old Testament - Song of Songs (Song of Solomon) and Qohelet (Ecclesiastes).

This book presents a new and innovative theory on the origin of the Germanic languages.

This volume contains a selection from papers presented at the 9th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 9), which was held at the University of Malaga (Spain), from June 6 to 9, 2017.

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

Adpositions are used, universally, to mark the roles of nominal participants in the verbal clause, most commonly indirect object roles.

This book illustrates recent developments in cartographic studies, seen from a comparative perspective.

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

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).

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.

Varieties of English in the U.

This volume offers an up-to-date survey of linguistic phenomena at the interfaces between syntax and prosody, information structure and discourse - with a special focus on Germanic and Romance - and their role in language change.

Linguistic construal of time lies at the center of language and language use; it is also one of the cognitive foundations of culture.

La importancia del estudio de la fraseología en general, y de la paremiología en particular, viene avalada tanto por el interés que han suscitado las unidades fraseológicas desde la Antigüedad como porque los investigadores del tema ponen de manifiesto que se trata de la piedra angular del lexicón y acervo cultural de toda lengua.

The collected articles in this volume address an array of cutting-edge issues in the field of historical linguistics, including new theoretical approaches and innovative methodologies for studying language through a diachronic lens.

The volume focuses on body part terms as the vehicle of embodied cognition and conceptualization.

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

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

Diachronic linguistics has been experiencing a strong revival during the last few decades, since an increasing number of researchers have assumed that evolutionary and historical factors must be considered to properly understand how natural languages work.

This volume brings together ten contributions by leading experts who present their current usage-based research in Diachronic Construction Grammar.

This textbook serves a dual purpose.

This volume provides a detailed investigation of perfects from all the branches of the Indo-European language family, in some cases representing the first ever comprehensive description.

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

Many Austronesian languages exhibit isolating word structure.

English local documents - leases, wills, accounts, letters and the like - provide a unique resource for historical sociolinguistics.

Over the last few decades, the widespread diffusion of digital technology has increased availability of primary textual sources, radically changing the everyday life of scholars in the humanities, who are now able to access, query and process a wealth of empirical evidence in ways not possible before.

This book focuses on contemporary sociolinguistic approaches to Spanish dialectology.

OKAY has been termed 'a spectacular expression' and 'America's greatest invention.

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

The former Soviet Union (USSR) provides the ideal territory for studying language contact between one and the same dominant language (Russian) and a wide range of genealogically and typologically diverse languages with varying histories of language contact.

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.

The current volume presents a number of chapters which look at informal vernacular letters, written mostly by emigrants to the former colonies of Britain, who settled at these locations in the past few centuries, with a focus on letters from the nineteenth century.

This book offers new dating of the poems of the Old Norse Poetic Edda , perhaps our best sources about the mythology and legends of the Viking Age.

¿Sigue importando la Reforma?

A partir dels estudis consolidats i d'un meritori treball de camp amb enquestes dialectològiques a informants de més de 250 localitats de la geografia valenciana, "Els parlars valencians" descriu la riquesa lingüística que presenta el català al País Valencià.

En estos dos volúmenes se rinde un merecido homenaje a Emilio Ridruejo por su dedicación incansable y rigurosa a la ciencia lingüística, así como por su generoso magisterio.

Després de la desfeta del valencianisme republicà com a conseqüència de la Guerra Civil, a finals dels anys cinquanta del segle XX la premsa valencianista reprèn la tradició històrica.

Guardonat amb el Premi Joan Coromines 2014 d'Investigació Històrica i Filològica, Viadel presenta un recorregut vibrant, d'excitada indignació intel·lectual, pel discurs de l'anticatalanisme espanyol.

Un diccionario histórico ambicioso sobre un aspecto del léxico desatendido hasta ahora: las palabras, las locuciones y las acepciones populares del valenciano, extraídas de textos literarios, a menudo inéditos, de los siglos XVII, XVIII y XIX.

Florilegio de términos, modismos, dichos y refranes aragoneses y de otras partes usados en la villa de Lanaja presenta una recopilación a modo de diccionario del habla popular najina, en la que destaca la presencia de gran cantidad de términos y modismos procedentes del viejo idioma aragonés.

A partir dels estudis consolidats i, sobretot, d'un meritori treball de camp amb enquestes dialectològiques a informants de més de 250 localitats de la geografia valenciana, "Els parlars valencians" descriu, amb rigor i profusió, la riquesa lingüística que presenta el català al País Valencià.

A partir dels estudis consolidats i, sobretot, d'un meritori treball de camp amb enquestes dialectològiques a informants de més de 250 localitats de la geografia valenciana, "Els parlars valencians" descriu, amb rigor i profusió, la riquesa lingüística que presenta el català al País Valencià.

Karl Simrock, ein renommierter deutscher Philologe und Übersetzer, präsentiert in seinem Werk 'Die Edda' eine umfassende Sammlung nordischer Mythen und Heldensagen.

Dieses eBook: "Gesammelte Werke: Lutherbibel + Predigten + Traktate + Briefe + Gedichte + Biografie" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

This book presents a critical reading of Kristapurana, the first South Asian retelling of the Bible.

Esta obra presenta la biografía del gran investigador y epigrafista ruso Yuri Knórosov (1922-1999), quien estableció en los años cincuenta las bases del desciframiento de la escritura jeroglífica maya, partiendo de los códices prehispánicos de esta misma cultura milenaria, para ofrecerle al mundo por primera vez la posibilidad de acceder a la dimensión cultural de sus antiguos textos.

Angelina Muñiz-Huberman denomina "lengua florida" a la que usaron los judíos sefardíes no sólo durante los ocho siglos de permanencia en España sino aún después de su expulsión de 1492 y hasta nuestros días.

¿Cómo salimos del silencio?

Un recorrido por los principales autores y escuelas que, a lo largo de la historia, han reflexionado sobre el lenguaje.

Last Post Ford Madox Ford - alentine Wannop and Christopher Tietjens share a cottage in Sussex with Tietjens' brother and sister-in-law.

The Heart of Mid-Lothian - Walter Scott - The Heart of Midlothian is the seventh of Sir Walter Scott's Waverley Novels.