Language

Latin continued to be used across Europe long after the end of the Roman Empire....

Stefan Larsson's Conceptions in the Code makes a significant contribution to sociolegal analysis, representing a...

This volume examines the linguistic problems that arise in efforts to translate between law and...

From the dawn of the early modern period around 1400 until the eighteenth century, Latin...

Impersonal constructions in the history of English form a puzzling category, in that there has...

This book presents and analyzes various features of the morphosyntax of Borgomanerese, a Gallo-Italic dialect...

This book introduces a new linguistic reconstruction of the phonology, morphology, and lexicon of Old...

In The Language of Bribery Cases, Roger W. Shuy analyzes the role that language plays...

Along with Shakespeare, Jane Austen (1775-1817) can be said to be the most widely studied...

The information world has undergone drastic changes since the publication of the 3rd edition of...

The Interactional Instinct (Oxford University Press, 2009) argued that the ubiquitous acquisition of language by...

Intercultural Pragmatics studies how language systems are used in social encounters between speakers who have...

The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics offers a broad and comprehensive coverage of the entire...

The goal of The Oxford Handbook of African American Language is to provide readers with...

This volume brings together distinguished scholars from all over the world to present an authoritative,...

This volume provides concise, authoritative accounts of the approaches and methodologies of modern lexicography and...

This book provides a critical investigation of syntactic change and the factors that influence it....

This book offers the first comprehensive description of the prosody of nine Romance languages that...

This book examines the question of whether languages can differ in grammatical complexity and, if...

This book traces the development of English slang from the earliest records to the latest...

The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages is the most exhaustive treatment of the Romance...

In this book, D. Robert Ladd focuses on problems with the one-dimensional idealization of language...

This book brings together novel work on the semantics and pragmatics of certain indefinite expressions...

This book outlines a system of phonological features that is minimally sufficient to distinguish all...

This book explores sets of movement cases in medieval Italian from 1200 to 1315. It...

This book provides linguists with a clear, critical, and comprehensive overview of theoretical and experimental...

This handbook addresses words in all their multifarious aspects and brings together scholars from every...

This handbook offers an in depth and comprehensive state of the art survey of the...

This is the latest addition to a group of handbooks covering the field of morphology,...

This handbook provides a critical guide to the most central proposition in modern linguistics: the...

This handbook presents the first systematic account of corpus phonology - the employment of corpora,...

This book of new work by leading international scholars considers developments in the study of...

This book considers how people talk about the location of objects and places. Spatial language...

This book presents new work on how Merge and formal features, two basic factors in...

This book continues Julie Coleman's acclaimed history of dictionaries of English slang and cant. It...

Austronesian is the largest language family on earth: Some 1300 languages, 20% of the world's...

While boarding a train from Kuttippuram, Damu falls to a violent death under its wheels....

Originally published in Dogri, Hashiye Par takes such a close look at the lives of...

This monograph presents the first comprehensive diachronic account of copular and passive verb constructions in...

The Language of Murder Cases describes fifteen court cases for which Roger W. Shuy served...

Dueling Discourses offers qualitative and quantitative analyses of the linguistic and discursive forms utilized by...

This book presents a study of interpreter-mediated interaction in New York City small claims courts,...

From Truth to Technique addresses key questions raised by the burgeoning literature in what Philip...

This book examines 52 apologetic allocutions produced during federal sentencing hearings. The practice of inviting...

These substantial volumes present the fullest account yet published of the lexicography of English from...