Historical & Comparative

The way language as a human faculty has evolved is a question that preoccupies researchers from a wide spread of disciplines. In this book, a team of writers has been brought together to examine the evolution of language from a variety of such...

Representing what someone else has said is an integral part of spoken and written communication. Speech representation occurs in many contexts from news reports and legal trials to everyday conversation. Although commonplace, it requires sophisticated...

In 1664, French Jesuit Louis Nicolas arrived in Quebec. Upon first hearing Ojibwe, Nicolas observed that he had encountered the most barbaric language in the world--but after listening to and studying approximately fifteen Algonquian languages over a...

The book provides a comprehensive description and in-depth analysis of the major word order changes that took place in the clausal and the nominal domains in the transition from old to modern Romanian. The data are set in a comparative Romance...

How did the biological, brain and behavioural structures underlying human language evolve? When, why and where did our ancestors become linguistic animals, and what has happened since? This book provides a clear, comprehensive but lively introduction to...

What is religion? How does it work? Many natural abilities of the human mind are involved, and crucial among them is the ability to use language. This volume brings together research from linguistics, cognitive science and neuroscience, as well as from...

In its 1500-year history, the English language has seen dramatic grammatical changes. This book offers a comprehensive and reader-friendly account of the major developments, including changes in word order, the noun phrase and verb phrase, changing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013287732Author Marian KlamerFormat HardbackPage Count 474Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Medical writing tells us a great deal about how the language of science has developed in constructing and communicating knowledge in English. This volume provides a new perspective on the evolution of the special language of medicine, based on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806311531Author Harriet Stryker-RoddaFormat PaperbackPage Count 26Imprint Genealogical Publishing CompanyPublisher Genealogical Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399536199Author Alex NovakFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

In 1664, French Jesuit Louis Nicolas arrived in Quebec. Upon first hearing Ojibwe, Nicolas observed that he had encountered the most barbaric language in the world--but after listening to and studying approximately fifteen Algonquian languages over a...

This book examines new functional approaches to language and education, and the impact of these on literacy in the classroom. The first section looks at issues of multimodality, in which the definition of a text is expanded to include not only that which...

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...

Elly van Gelderen provides examples of linguistic cycles from a number of languages and language families, along with an account of the linguistic cycle in terms of minimalist economy principles. A cycle involves grammaticalization from lexical to...

This book is a general introduction to the structures of the different medieval Romance vernaculars most commonly known as Old or Medieval Spanish, as preserved in texts from Spain from the eleventh to the fifteenth centuries. After discussing general...

Grammaticalization is a well-attested process of linguistic change in which a lexical item becomes a function word, which may be further reduced to a clitic or affix. Proponents of the universality of grammaticalization have usually argued that it is...

The History of the English Language has been a standard university course offering for over 150 years. Yet relatively little has been written about teaching a course whose very title suggests its prodigious chronological, geographic, and disciplinary...

When did English become American? What distinctive qualities made it American? What role have America's democratizing impulses, and its vibrantly heterogeneous speakers, played in shaping our language and separating it from the mother tongue? A...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013287725Author Marian KlamerFormat PaperbackPage Count 474Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Syntactic Change in Late Modern English presents a stability paradox to linguists; despite the many social changes that took place between 1700 and 1900, the language appeared to be structurally stable during this period. This book resolves this paradox...

This Element presents an account of forensic linguistics in Australia since the first expert linguistic evidence in 1959, through early work in the 1970s-1980s, the defining of the discipline in the 1990s, and into the current era. It starts with a...

How were you and thou used in Early Modern England? What were the typical ways of ordering others in Early Medieval England? How was the speech of others represented in the nineteenth-century novel? This volume answers these questions and more by...

English is one of the most widely-spoken languages in the world, with native-speaking communities at the furthest ends of the earth. However, just three thousand years ago, the language-which-became-English was not spoken anywhere in Britain. Trudgill,...

This book makes use of digital corpora to give in-depth details of the history and development of the spelling of Latin. It focusses on sub-elite texts in the Roman empire, and reveals that sophisticated education in this area was not restricted to those...

This book makes use of digital corpora to give in-depth details of the history and development of the spelling of Latin. It focusses on sub-elite texts in the Roman empire, and reveals that sophisticated education in this area was not restricted to those...

What is the explanation for the nature, character and evolution of the many different varieties of English in the world today? Which changes in the English language are the legacy of its origins and which are the product of novel influences in the places...

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...

In this ambitious work, Collin Jennings applies computational methods to eighteenth-century fiction, history, and poetry to reveal the nonlinear courses of reading they produce. Hallmark genres of the British Enlightenment, such as the novel and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607856078Author Anna M BabelFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Michigan Publishing ServicesPublisher Michigan Publishing Services

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474478359Author Rajend MesthrieFormat HardbackPage Count 274Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

In the Americas, both indigenous and postcolonial languages today bear witness of massive changes that have taken place since the colonial era. However, a unified approach to languages from different colonial areas is still missing.The present volume...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789358726558Author Idara HayatFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Taemeer PublicationsPublisher Taemeer PublicationsWeight(grams) 82g

Literary Onomastics surveys different methods of studying names in works of literature and offers representative works of literary onomastic analysis. Included in this volume are qualitative studies that examine select names as well as quantitative...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666745603Author Martin HaugFormat HardbackPage Count 444Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 562g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947447813Author Vincent W J Van Gerven OeiFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Punctum BooksPublisher Punctum BooksWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm)...

This volume provides a concise overview of the diachronic development of composite predicates (CPs) in Late Modern English, offering clearer evidence of ongoing language change using data less readily available in other corpora.While previous scholarship...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781725261846Author Wolfgang Von KempelenFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Resource Publications (CA)Publisher Resource Publications (CA)Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781888215717Author Archer TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint Fathom Publishing CompanyPublisher Fathom Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

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