Historical & Comparative

As its title suggests, this book is a selection of papers that use English corpora to study language variation along three dimensions – time, place and genre. In broad terms, the book aims to bridge the gap between corpus linguistics and sociolinguistics...

You are invited to join a fascinating journey of discovery, as Marcia Birken and Anne C. Coon explore the intersecting patterns of mathematics and poetry — bringing the two fields together in a new way. Setting the tone with humor and illustrating each...

The authors consider new views of the classical versus vernacular dichotomy that are especially central to the new historiography of China and East Asian languages. Based on recent debates initiated by Sheldon Pollock’s findings for South Asia, we...

This book is a comprehensive study of the Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic. It includes an investigation of all Germanic words that were borrowed into Proto-Slavic until its disintegration in the early ninth century. Research into the phonology,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789042029330Author Erika LangbroekFormat PaperbackPage Count 321Imprint Editions Rodopi B.V.Publisher BrillWeight(grams) 526g

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As an intriguing but little understood language group within the Tibeto-Burman family, Qiangic languages are widely reported to have evidentiality, the grammatical means of expressing information source. How does this category function in this language...

This book presents Lars Johanson’s Code-Copying Model, an integrated framework for the description of contact-induced processes. The model covers all the main contact linguistic issues in their synchronic and diachronic interrelationship. The terminology...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606180020Author Paul BotleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint American Philosophical Society PressPublisher American Philosophical Society Press

The second edition of the definitive reference on contact studies and linguistic change—provides extensive new research and original case studies Language contact is a dynamic area of contemporary linguistic research that studies how language changes...

Tracing the Journey of Global Languages Patrick Foote’s Immigrant Tongues is the ultimate language history book, blending stories of migration, culture, and evolution to uncover how languages have shaped our world. Perfect for fans of linguistics gifts...

Combining Forms (CFs) are a major morphological phenomenon in Modern English, yet while they have been discussed in some morphological literature, no full-length study has been devoted to this topic so far. This pioneering book addresses that gap by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783796551833Author Emmanuel DuprazFormat HardbackPage Count 500Imprint Schwabe VerlagPublisher Schwabe VerlagWeight(grams) 535g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783943955729Author Widmaier VerlagFormat HardbackPage Count 316Imprint Widmaier VerlagPublisher Widmaier VerlagWeight(grams) 757g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621387619Author Leo SpitzerFormat HardbackPage Count 252Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825348786Author Margaret ConnollyFormat PaperbackImprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 2758g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781763524101Author Stephen HartFormat PaperbackPage Count 386Imprint Improbable FictionsPublisher Improbable FictionsWeight(grams) 440g

The great structural changes of the English language in the course of its history are taught in this textbook by continuous reference to translations of identical Biblical passages, which date from different periods and are printed in parallel. Analysis...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783668556744Author AnonymFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Grin PublishingPublisher Grin PublishingWeight(grams) 68g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447122177Author Roey SchneiderFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 694g

All living languages are subject to change, and in this highly accessible handbook, Simon Horobin shows the importance of thinking about why, as well as how, language changes over time. Studying the History of Early English introduces students to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925826869Author Sherry SufiFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Connor Court Publishing Pty LtdPublisher Connor Court Publishing Pty LtdWeight(grams)...

This book challenges several assumptions commonly encountered in Japanese dialectology: that the pitch-accent analysis of modern Tōkyō Japanese is an appropriate basis for describing the suprasegmental phonology of other dialects and earlier stages of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783943955675Author Kai WidmaierFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint Widmaier, KaiPublisher Widmaier, KaiWeight(grams) 445g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783868351835Author Gregorio Del Olmo LeteFormat HardbackPage Count 502Imprint Ugarit VerlagPublisher Ugarit VerlagWeight(grams) 1111g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783700192749Author Martina GalatelloFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Austrian Academy of Sciences PressPublisher Austrian Academy of Sciences...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949805833Author Ziortza Gandarias BeldarrainFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Center for Basque Studies PressPublisher Center for Basque Studies...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905670284Author Edith HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 225Imprint University of London PressPublisher University of London

Breaking away from previously rigid descriptions of the linguistic system of the English language, Crossing Linguistic Boundaries explores fascinating case studies which refuse to fall neatly within the traditional definitions of linguistic domains and...

From K-pop to kimchi, Korean culture is becoming increasingly popular on the world stage. This cultural internationalisation is also mirrored linguistically, in the emergence and development of Korean English. Often referred to as ‘Konglish’, this book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800648005Author Bendi TsoFormat PaperbackPage Count 804Imprint Open Book PublishersPublisher Open Book PublishersWeight(grams) 1102g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783847115533Author Julia ZwinkFormat HardbackPage Count 388Imprint V&R UnipressPublisher V&R Unipress

Shortlisted for the 2020 ESSE Book Award in English Language and Linguistics Orality in Written Texts provides a methodologically and theoretically innovative study of change in Irish English in the period 1700-1900. Focusing in on a time during which...

This book explores the differing ways in which language has been used to try to make sense of the First World War. Offering further developments in an innovative approach to the study of the conflict, it develops a transnational viewpoint of the...

This volume is a selection of papers presented at the 10th International Conference on Middle English held at the University of Stavanger, Norway from 31 May to 2 June 2017. The collection bridges the gap between traditional 'linguistic' and 'literary'...

The academic discipline of translation studies is only half a century old and even younger in the field of bilateral translation between Japanese and Turkish. This book is the second volume of the world's first academic book on Turkish Japanese...

'A Toilet Paper' is a humorous examination, from a historical linguistic viewpoint, of four commonly used words relating to our posterior orifice and that which comes out of it.Book InformationISBN 9781895636406Author Rachel MinesFormat PaperbackPage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399500234Author Simon HorobinFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645605706Author Manindra Kumar MeherFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Black Eagle BooksPublisher Black Eagle BooksWeight(grams) 118g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503587950Author Vincent DebiaisFormat HardbackPage Count 325Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.