Historical and comparative linguistics

Based on a 500,000 word corpus of early sources collected from ex-slave narratives, ex-slave recordings, and interviews with hoodoo priests, this book reconstructs the English spoken by African Americans between 1830 and 1920.

Metalanguage brings together new, original contributions on people's knowledge about language and representations of language, e.

The book deals with the development of descriptive models of English grammar writing during the Early Modern English period.

Australia is host to many languages - English, indigenous, migrant, and contact.

Der Band behandelt die Schnittstelle zwischen Pragmatik, Grammatik und Psycholinguistik bzw.

This book presents the theory that the linguistic and cultural landscape of Europe north of the Alps and the Pyrenees was shaped in prehistoric times by the interaction of Indo-European speakers with speakers of languages related to Basque and to Semitic.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of endangered languages with a global coverage.

This book presents a novel treatment of the metre of Beowulf, an Old English epic poem of uncertain date and origin which is nonetheless considered one of the gems of Germanic Alliterative Verse.

The book presents unique literature in a minority ethnolect - the Germanic dialect of Wilamowice in Southern Poland.

Australia's English raises many questions among experts and the general public.

Present-day Dialectology does not treat dialectology as an isolated discipline.

The book contains ten papers discussing issues of the relation between syntax and morphology from the perspective of morphologically rich languages including, among others, Indo-European languages, indigenous languages of the Americas, Turkish, and Hungarian.

The contributions in this book are a representative cross-section of recent research on verb-particle constructions.

Rund 700 Neologismen werden in diesem ersten größeren Neologismenwörterbuch für das Deutsche dargestellt.

Philologists aiming to reconstruct the grammar of ancient languages face the problem that the available data always underdetermine grammar, and in the case of gaps, possible mistakes, and idiosyncracies there are no native speakers to consult.

Purism is an aspect of linguistic study which appeals not only to the scholar but also to the layperson.

Gegenstand dieser sprach- und kulturgeschichtlich angelegten Studie ist die nationale Ideologisierung der deutschen Sprache von der Gründung der Fruchtbringenden Gesellschaft bis zum Ende des Dritten Reiches.

How and why do changes happen when and where they do?

This book introduces the notion of change construction and systematically studies, within a Cognitive Grammar framework, the rich inventory of its instantiations in English, from well-known structures such as the so-called resultative construction to a variety of largely ignored types such as asymmetric resultatives, sublexical change constructions and mildly causal constructions.

Band 5 enthält Nachträge zu den Bänden 1 bis 4 sowie eine erweiterte und überarbeitete Gesamtbibliographie.

Meanings of words are constantly changing, and the forces driving these changes are varied and diverse.

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Die beiden groen Epen des (alten) Indiens, das Mahbhrata und das Rmyaa, sind in einer Sprache verfat, die sich in vielen Einzelheiten von der Hochsprache des (sog.

Mit dem Ziel, den Leser an die Quellen heranzuführen, gibt das Handbuch einen breiten Überblick über altnorwegische und altisländische Sprache und Literatur mit den Bereichen Handschriftenkunde, Textkritik, Runologie, Paläographie, Namen, Saga, Edda und Skaldik.

Irish English, while having been the focus of investigations on a variety of linguistic levels, reveals a dearth of research on the pragmatic level.

With its many and diverse languages, including some with very long documented histories, its cultural diversity, and its widespread multilingualism - both the stable and transient kind - the Himalayan region is a treasure trove of empirical data for linguistic research on language typology and universals, historical linguistics, language contact and areal linguistics.

Bantawa, spoken in Eastern Nepal, is the most widely used of the Rai languages, an important subgroup of the Kiranti group of Tibeto-Burman languages.

The honoree of this Festschrift has for many years now marked modern trends in diachronic and synchronic linguistics by his own publications and by stimulating those of numerous others.

Studies in the History of the English Language II: Unfolding Conversations contains selected papers from the SHEL-2 conference held at the University of Washington in Spring 2002.

The intuition that translations are somehow different from texts that are not translations has been around for many years, but most of the common linguistic frameworks are not comprehensive enough to account for the wealth and complexity of linguistic phenomena that make a translation a special kind of text.