Historical and comparative linguistics

Die Frühe Neuzeit war in sprachlicher Hinsicht von komplexen, mitunter gegenläufigen Entwicklungen geprägt.

A spirited and engaging linguistic and social re-imagination of the role and nature of clichés in communication and interaction.

This book examines how urban adolescents attending a non-mainstream learning centre in the UK use language and other semiotic practices to enact identities in their day-to-day lives.

Provides a systematic approach to lexical indicators of cultural identity using the material of Slavic languages.

As the first volume of a two-volume set that re-examines nouns and verbs in Chinese, this book proposes the verbs-as-nouns theory, corroborated by discussions of the nature and relationship between nouns and verbs in Chinese.

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This book shows how depictions of etymology were used by twelfth-century poets, translators, bureaucrats and historians to portray Britain''s past.

By de-anonymizing the key text on Mediterranean Lingua Franca, the book opens unexpected new areas for linguistic and historical research.

Beyond Yellow English is the first edited volume to examine issues of language, identity, and culture among the rapidly growing Asian Pacific American (APA) population.

Since its founding in 1924, the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP) has grown to span five synods across Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa.

Social processes and the nature of language variation have driven sibilant variation across the Spanish-speaking world.

In the 21st century, Lutheran theology takes place on a global level.

In the seventeenth century, English Baptists existed on the fringe of the nation's collective religious life.

Aspects of the 2017 Final Report of the South African Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities (CRL) have drawn strong criticism, particularly from South African scholars, politicians and the public.

This book examines the evidence for the development of adnominal genitives (the knight's sword, the nun's priest's tale, etc.

As the fourth volume of a multi-volume set on the Chinese language, this book studies the lexical system of Old Chinese and the development of different types of lexicons during the period.

No one can read far in the Hebrew Bible without encountering depictions of violence carried out by human beings, sometimes in the name of God, or indeed violence carried out or commanded by God–from Cain’s murder of Abel to the slaughter of Canaanite populations and much.

This work offers insight into the diversity, breadth, and complexity of the cultural influences that shaped Baptist identity.

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Mark Faulkner offers a compelling new narrative of what happened to English-language writing after the Norman Conquest of 1066.

With a focus on empirical methods, this book traces the development of European orthographies in the early modern period.

Integrating research methods from linguistics with contemporary legal argumentation theory, this book highlights the complexities of legal justification by focusing on the role of value-laden language in argument construction and use.

This volume explores issues of memory, remembering and language in late colonial India.

Johann Sebastian Bach krönte sein Schaffen geistlicher Musik mit dem Weihnachts-, dem Oster- und dem Himmelfahrtsoratorium sowie mit fünf Messvertonungen – gipfelnd in der monumentalen h-Moll-Messe, die als Vermächtnis angesehen werden kann.

Written by a team of international scholars, this outstanding Handbook provides a complete overview of research into historical syntax.

This book presents an alternative paradigm in understanding and appreciating World Englishes (WEs) in the wake of globalization and its accompanying shifting priorities in many dimensions of modern life, including the emergence of the English language as the dominant lingua franca (ELF).

Medievalists have denied the historical existence of King Arthur for over 50 years.

A Survey of Modern English covers a wide selection of aspects of the modern English language.

A clear and concise introduction to the study of how new languages come into being.

This book examines diachronic change and diversity in the morphosyntax of Romance varieties spoken in Italy.

This Handbook brings together the world''s foremost researchers to provide a one-stop resource for the study of language acquisition and development.