Historical & Comparative

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'...

This book offers a state-of-the-art guide to linguistic fieldwork, reflecting its collaborative nature across the subfields of linguistics and disciplines such as astronomy, anthropology, biology, musicology, and ethnography. Experienced scholars and...

This book provides explanations for the emergence of contact languages, especially pidgins and creoles. It assesses the current state of research and examines aspects of current theories and approaches that have excited much controversy and debate. The...

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...

This book provides explanations for the emergence of contact languages, especially pidgins and creoles. It assesses the current state of research and examines aspects of current theories and approaches that have excited much controversy and debate. The...

This book explains how the grammarians of the Graeco-Romance world perceived the nature and structure of the languages they taught. The volume focuses primarily on the early centuries AD, a time when the Roman Empire was at its peak; in this period, a...

This book investigates the syntactic and semantic development of a selection of indefinite pronouns and determiners (such as aliquis 'some', nullus 'no', and nemo 'no one') between Latin and the Romance languages. Although these elements have undergone...

The book examines the work of Renaissance lexicographers such as John Palsgrave, Claudius Hollyband, Richard Huloet, and Peter Levins, with particular focus on the author at work: the struggles of these lexicographers to understand the semantic range of...

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

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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.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503603018Author Antoine BorrutFormat HardbackPage Count 475Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 344g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760466633Author Mitchell BrowneFormat PaperbackImprint ANU PressPublisher ANU Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760465551Author Lana Grelyn TakauFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Anu PressPublisher Anu PressWeight(grams) 649g

Research in Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics has experienced a significant increase in contributions from varying fields of language studies, gaining the attention of scholars from all over the world. This volume aims to showcase the variety of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783752006834Author Eugen HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Dr Ludwig ReichertPublisher Dr Ludwig ReichertWeight(grams) 472g

Introducing Roman Declamation provides an overview of school declamation, that is, the themes on which students of the Roman rhetorical schools cut their teeth and proved their talent. Beginning in the late Republican period and throughout the entire...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798985260717Author Lois P LiggettFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint MindStir MediaPublisher MindStir MediaWeight(grams) 345g

Adopting a corpus-based methodology, this volume analyses phraseological patterns in nine European languages from a monolingual, bilingual and multilingual point of view, following a mostly Construction Grammar approach. At present, corpus-based...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825395964Author Walker Riggs ThompsonFormat HardbackPage Count 412Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 485g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782406097907Author Mathieu GouxFormat PaperbackPage Count 367Imprint Classiques GarnierPublisher Classiques GarnierWeight(grams) 649g

Atypical demonstratives have not received adequate attention in the literature so far, or have even been completely neglected. By providing fresh insights and discussing new facets, this volume contributes to the better understanding of this group of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783752006810Author Francesca CotugnoFormat HardbackPage Count 172Imprint Dr Ludwig Reichert VerlagPublisher Dr Ludwig Reichert VerlagWeight(grams) 376g

Data and Argumentation in Historical Pragmatics has two interrelated aims, one empirical and one theoretical. Its object-scientific aim is to provide a comprehensive analysis of the beginnings of a semantic change process in the grammaticalization of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627347365Author Margit GriebFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Brown Walker Press (FL)Publisher Brown Walker Press (FL)Weight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434103260Author Professor H L MenckenFormat PaperbackPage Count 482Imprint Waking Lion PressPublisher Waking Lion PressWeight(grams) 699g

Binomials, such as for and against, dead or alive, to have and to hold, can be broadly defined as two words belonging to the same grammatical category and linked by a semantic relationship. They are an important phraseological phenomenon present...

Against the modern cult for transnational love and mixed-blood babies, this book brings readers to revisit the prolonged anxieties over the mixing of races and the complexities underpinning the literary representation of thwarted Chinese-Caucasian...

Originally published during the early part of the twentieth century, the Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature were designed to provide concise introductions to a broad range of topics. They were written by experts for the general reader and...

The question of complexity, as in what makes one language more 'complex' than another, is a long-established topic of debate amongst linguists. Recently, this issue has been complemented with the view that languages are complex adaptive systems, in which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789785412789Author Ozo-Mekuri NdimeleFormat PaperbackPage Count 582Imprint M & J Grand Orbit CommunicationsPublisher M & J Grand Orbit...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789783719569Author Bolaji AremoFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Scribo PublicationsPublisher Scribo PublicationsWeight(grams) 259g

The history of the English language is a vast and diverse area of research. In this volume, a team of leading historians of English come together to analyse 'real' language, drawing on corpus data to shed new light on long-established issues and debates...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789785644005Author Ozo-Mekuri NdimeleFormat PaperbackPage Count 934Imprint M & J Grand Orbit CommunicationsPublisher M & J Grand Orbit...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783752006407Author Carina JahaniFormat HardbackPage Count 198Imprint Dr Ludwig ReichertPublisher Dr Ludwig ReichertWeight(grams) 4259g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789027905284Author Louis L. OrlinFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint De Gruyter MoutonPublisher De GruyterWeight(grams) 648g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783954904518Author Eugen HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Dr Ludwig ReichertPublisher Dr Ludwig ReichertWeight(grams) 272g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783846056073Author J J ThomasFormat HardbackPage Count 148Imprint Salzwasser-Verlag GmbhPublisher Salzwasser-Verlag GmbhWeight(grams) 390g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783796547591Author Peter GlatthardFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Schwabe VerlagPublisher Schwabe VerlagWeight(grams) 5076g