Historical and comparative linguistics

Outlines a theory of language use and language change, focusing on the processes that give languages their structure and variance.

This book is the third in a three-volume set that celebrates the career and achievements of Cliff Goddard, a pioneer of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach in linguistics.

A comprehensive and up-to-date account of the languages of ancient Sicily by an international team of experts.

This thorough analysis of documented Middle English spelling establishes when and where long-vowel change took place.

Cyclical language change is a linguistic process by which a word, phrase, or part of the grammar loses its meaning or function and is then replaced by another.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the syntactic variation of the dialects of Spanish.

Polemisch geprägte Dialoge in lateinischer Sprache, dann zunehmend auch in den Volkssprachen gehören zweifellos zu den bevorzugten literarischen Ausdrucksformen, die das breite Spektrum zeitgenössischer Diskurse im Renaissance-Humanismus geprägt haben.

Greek Writing from Knossos to Homer examines the origin of the Greek alphabet.

The essays in this volume, dating from 1991 onwards, focus on highly characteristic constructions of English, Romance languages, and German.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of Chinese medicine terminology translation, defining the most central concepts in Chinese traditional medicine, providing simplified Chinese characters, Mandarin Pronunciation in pinyin, citations for 111 of the most key concepts in traditional Chinese medicine and culture.

*Winner of AEDEAN Leocadio Martin Mingorance Book Award on Theoretical and Applied English Linguistics (2021)**Winner of ESLA Guadalupe Aguado Research Award for Young Researchers (2022)**Winner of ESSE Book Award 2022 for Young Researchers in the category 'English Language and Linguistics*This book uses corpus-based methodologies to investigate the wide variety of factors behind verb number agreement with complex collective noun phrases in English.

A labourer, journalist and a professor who lived through four successive periods of German political history from the German Empire, through the Weimar Republic and the Nazi state through to the German Democratic Republic Victor Klemperer is regarded as one of the most vivid witnesses to a tumultuous century of European history.

This book explores twenty-first century approaches to place by bringing together a range of language variation and change research.

What determines whether we say She gave him a book instead of She gave a book to him?

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

Interdisciplinary examination of the transmission process of Linear A to Linear B script.

New Testament scholar Constantine Campbell investigates the function of verbal aspect within the New Testament Greek narrative.

This volume provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey of corpus-based linguistic research on English.

How did the Homeric narrator use metaphors of time, speech, and thought to compose and structure the Iliad and Odyssey?

The fascinating history of French words that have entered the English language and the fertile but fraught relationship between English- and French-speaking cultures across the worldEnglish has borrowed more words from French than from any other modern foreign language.

This work examines both historical and comparative evidence in documenting the sweep of diachronic change in the context of serial verb constructions.

Most of the world's Extraterritorial Englishes stem historically from southern English dialects - Southern England having been the most densely-habited part of the country.

In 1517, Martin Luther set off what has been called, at least since the nineteenth century, the Protestant Reformation.

The Michif language -- spoken by descendants of French Canadian fur traders and Cree Indians in western Canada -- is considered an "e;impossible language"e; since it uses French for nouns and Cree for verbs, and comprises two different sets of grammatical rules.

The Spanish humanist Antonio de Nebrija (1444-1522) is the author of an impressive body of scientific work which comprises a broad spectrum of humanistic knowledge.

Why did Martin Luther leave the Catholic Church?

Every language has its peculiar problems of meaning for the foreign learner.

A History of the Chinese Language provides a comprehensive introduction to the historical development of the Chinese language from its Proto-Sino-Tibetan roots in prehistoric times to Modern Standard Chinese.

Historical Linguistics provides a comprehensive and clearly written introduction to historical linguistic theory and methods.

This edited collection provides an overview of linguistic diversity, societal discourses and interaction between majorities and minorities in the Baltic States.

Explores how the text and principles of the UNCITRAL Model Arbitration Law are implemented, or not, in key Asian jurisdictions.