Language

This book tells the history of the Oxford English Dictionary from its beginnings in the...

In this book, the first full-scale work of its kind in English, Harm Pinkster applies...

This book presents an exhaustive treatment of a long-standing problem of Proto-Indo-European and Italic philology:...

This book looks at the ever-present anxieties associated with language change. Focusing on English from...

This book presents new work on the psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics of compound words. It shows...

This is the first comprehensive account of the segmental phonology of Hungarian in English. Part...

This book reconstructs what the earliest grammars might have been and shows how they could...

This pioneering work introduces and presents the first full publication of the text of an...

Al- Tayyib Salih is not merely another writer in the Arab world or in exile....

Beginning in Rome around 600 BC, Latin became the language of the civilized world and...

This is the first comprehensive treatment of the strategies employed in the world's languages to...

Words, Words, Words is all about the wonder of words. Drawing on a lifetime's experience,...

This book illustrates an approach to prosodic typology through descriptions of the intonation and the...

This book, the second volume in A Linguistic History of English, describes the development of...

Semantics aims to describe the significance (or meaning) of linguistic expressions in a systematic way....

This book is a comprehensive introductory manual that guides beginners to a functional reading knowledge...

Small Dictionaries and Curiosity tells a story which has not been told before, that of...

The first lessons we learn in school can stay with us all our lives, but...

This book presents an analysis of how speakers of typologically diverse languages report present-time situations....

This book provides a compositional, truth-conditional, crosslinguistic semantics for evidentiality, the linguistic encoding of the...

This book is the first volume specifically devoted to the phonetics and phonology of geminate...

This book presents a novel analysis of concealed-question constructions, reports of a mental attitude in...

The chapters in this volume address the process of syntactic change at different granularities. The...

This book presents a controlled evaluation of three widely practised syntactic theories on the basis...

This volume presents a data-rich description of English inflection and word-formation. Based on large corpora...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0...

This volume offers an empirical and diachronic investigation of the foundations and nature of metaphor...

This book examines the tone and accent of Oklahoma Cherokee, in which six possible pitch...

This volume offers theoretical and descriptive perspectives on the issues pertaining to ergativity, a grammatical...

This book traces the origins of modern varieties of Yiddish and presents evidence for the...

The BBC's Advisory Committee on Spoken English was set up to provide an authoritative guide...

This volume brings together the latest research on the semantics of nouns in both familiar...

The Grammar of Knowledge offers both a linguistic and anthropological perspective on the expression of...

This book examines historical changes in the grammar of the Indo-Aryan languages from the period...

This book provides an accessible account of the origins and conceptual foundations of language policy....

The book provides a formal analysis of root and complement clauses in Old Romanian. Virginia...

Wordsmiths and Warriors explores the heritage of English through the places in Britain that shaped...

The languages of the world can be seen and heard in cities and towns, forests...

This book provides thorough descriptive and theory-neutral coverage of the full range of phonological phenomena...

This book traces the changes in argument alignment that have taken place in Aramaic during...

This book presents new research into the great structural diversity found in Sinitic languages. While...

This book explores language variation and change from the perspective of generative syntax, based on...

This book aims to assess the nature of morphological complexity, and the properties that distinguish...

This book presents one of the first attempts at developing a precise, grammatically rooted, theory...