Routledge, 2024. — 200 p. Linguistic Archaeology provides students with an accessible introduction to the field of linguistic archaeology, both as theoretical framework and methodological toolkit, for understanding the conceptual foundations and practical considerations involved in reconstructing the prehistory of language. The book introduces the field’s expansion out of...
Springer Nature, 2023. — 377 p. This book analyzes the linguistic diversity of South America based on approaches deeply rooted in the tradition of formal grammar. The chapters brought together in this contributed volume consider native languages all kinds of languages used in the region, including sign languages, indigenous languages and the romance languages (Portuguese and...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2015. — 365 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 278). This volume focuses on the interplay of syntactic and semantic factors in language change. The contributions draw on data from numerous Indo-European languages and address the question of how syntactic and semantic change are linked and whether both are governed by similar...
De Gruyter, 2020. — 228 p. — (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes 99). The contributions contained in this volume offer a multidisciplinary approach into the history of the parts of speech and their role in building phrases and sentences. They fulfill a current interest for syntactic problems for combining recent linguistic theories with the long tradition of the...
De Gruyter, 2014. — 487 p. — (Studia Linguistica Germanica 119). How did German linguists think about Latin, the international lingua franca in the 17th and 18th centuries, and about Greek and Hebrew? Using wide-ranging sources and evidence, this study presents contemporary writings about genealogy, typology, borrowing, purism, and the use and teaching of foreign languages.
De Gruyter Mouton, 2020. — 671 p. — (Comparative Handbooks of Linguistics). This volume intends to fill the gap in the grammaticalization studies setting as its goal the systematic description of grammaticalization processes in genealogically and structurally diverse languages. To address the problem of the limitations of the secondary sources for grammaticalization studies,...
De Gruyter, 2020. — 828 p. — (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 446). This contrastive study analyzes the prefixation (notably the ablative type) of specific verb classes in Latin, Greek, Iberoromance languages (Spanish, Galician, and Catalan), and German. Based on the contrastive study of what is here labeled ‘preverbial systems’ and the interlingual...
Edinburgh University Press, 2018. — 256 p. A hands-on approach to historical linguistics, working through 101 problems in five different categories. This book offers a hands-on approach to historical linguistics, guiding the student through 101 problems in five different categories. These include 12 problems on the establishment of genetic relationship among languages, 24...
Harper, 2005
This impressive work is a study of language dynamics over five millennia. Ostler deals with the birth, rise and decline of those languages that spread most widely through history, and the factors that played a part, like trade, conquest and culture. Of course the book is also by definition a history of civilization. The narrative begins in Sumeria and ends with...
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