Historical & Comparative

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

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 first volume of the world's first academic book on Turkish Japanese...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788876537356Author C. Sunil RanjarFormat PaperbackPage Count 445Imprint Pontificio Istituto BiblicoPublisher Pontificio Istituto Biblico

“The first volume of the Handbook of Historical Linguistics is the best-worn handbook among many in my office and even though it’s almost 20 years old, I still consult it often. Still, historical linguistics is a very different field today than it was in...

The book investigates the diachronic dimension of contact-induced language change based on empirical data from Pennsylvania German (PG), a variety of German in long-term contact with English. Written data published in local print media from Pennsylvania...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783036543031Author Giuseppe BazanFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Mdpi AGPublisher Mdpi AGWeight(grams) 170g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789956764389Author Gratien G AtindogbéFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Langaa RPCIDPublisher Langaa RPCIDWeight(grams) 667g

The development of intensifiers has long been identified as an area of vibrant change in Late Modern English. This groundbreaking book provides the first comprehensive study of intensifiers in this period, and shows how they have changed over time. It...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907962622Author Osman DelialiogluFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Cranmore PublicationsPublisher Cranmore PublicationsWeight(grams) 190g

The eighteenth century was a key period in the development of the English language, in which the modern standard emerged and many dictionaries and grammars first appeared. This book is divided into thematic sections which deal with issues central to...

Over the past 300 years, attempts have been made to prescribe how we should and should not use the English language. The efforts have been institutionalized in places such as usage guides, dictionaries, and school curricula. Such authorities have aspired...

This book provides a critical introduction to the current views and controversies regarding language evolution. It sheds new light on hot topics such as: How ancient is language? Did Neanderthals have some form of language? Did language evolve gradually...

The contributions of this volume offer both a diachronic and synchronic approach to aspects relating to different areas of colonial life as for example colonial place-naming in a comparative perspective. They comprise topics of diverse interests within...

In today’s world, the English language exerts an unprecedented influence internationally, and its echoes are present in almost all languages. These echoes, also known as Anglicisms, are no longer limited to English-sounding loanwords. The English impact...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789785412703Author Ozo-Mekuri NdimeleFormat PaperbackPage Count 922Imprint M & J Grand Orbit CommunicationsPublisher M & J Grand Orbit...

Based on the systematic analysis of large amounts of computer-readable text, this book shows how the English language has been changing in the recent past, often in unexpected and previously undocumented ways. The study is based on a group of matching...

The chapters in this volume feature new and groundbreaking research carried out by leading scholars and promising young researchers from around the world on recent changes in the English verb phrase. Drawing on authentic corpus data, the papers consider...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612334172Author Shino KurosakiFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Dissertation.comPublisher Dissertation.comWeight(grams) 413gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...