The Syntax and Semantics of the Perfect Active in Literary Koine Greek

Robert Crellin

• Paperback | Engels | Publications of the Philological Society
• The Syntax and Semantics of the Perfect Active in Literary Koine Greek incorporates linguistic insights from both neo-Davidsonian and Chomskyan tradit... Lees meer

J.G. Schottelius's Ausführliche Arbeit Von Der Teutschen Haubtsprache (1663) and Its Place in Early Modern European Vernacular Language Study

Nicola McLelland

• Paperback | Engels | Publications of the Philological Society | nr. 44
• This monograph offers a comprehensive reassessment of the dominant German grammarian of the 17th century J.G. Schottelius, and examines his legacy bot... Lees meer

The Uralic Language Family

Angela Marcantonio

• Paperback | Engels | Publications of the Philological Society
• In this detailed survey of Finnish, Hungarian, Lapp and the other Uralic Languages, Angela Marcantonio shows there is in fact no scientific evidence t... Lees meer

Revitalising Language in Provence

James Costa

• Paperback | Engels | Publications of the Philological Society
• Revitalising Language in Provence: A Critical Approach questions the concept of language revitalization and challenges the field's main tenets through... Lees meer

Building Meaning in Context

Hannah Gibson

• Paperback | Engels | Publications of the Philological Society
• Building Meaning in Context: A Dynamic Approach to Bantu Clause Structure uses the tools of the Dynamic Syntax framework to explore morphosyntactic ph... Lees meer

The Language of Queen Elizabeth I

Mel Evans

• Paperback | Engels | Publications of the Philological Society | nr. 46
• The Language of Queen Elizabeth I presents one of the first diachronic accounts of the language - the idiolect - of the Tudor monarch who ruled Englan... Lees meer

Metaphor and Metonymy

Kathryn Allan

• Paperback | Engels | Publications of the Philological Society | nr. 42
• The way in which we understand the concept of intelligence is rooted in metaphor and metonymy; for example, it is common to describe people as 'bright... Lees meer

Linguistics in Britain

• Paperback | Engels | Publications of the Philological Society | nr. 36
• This is a collection of 'linguistic autobiographies' by 23 British linguists who played a major role in the development of the subject in Britain duri... Lees meer

Sound Change in Nasalization

• Paperback | Engels | Publications of the Philological Society | nr. 31
• This book is the first detailed study since the 1970sof the characteristics of distinctive nasalization in sound change. Lees meer

The Celtic Inscriptions of Britain

Patrick Sims-Williams

• Paperback | Engels | Publications of the Philological Society
• This is the first comprehensive linguistic study for 50 years of the stones from western Britain and Brittany, inscribed in the Roman and Irish Ogam a... Lees meer

The Phonology of Classical Latin

Andras Cser

• Paperback | Engels | Publications of the Philological Society
• This work is a comprehensive corpus-based description of the synchronic segmental phonology of Classical Latin. Provides a full description of the pho... Lees meer

The Semantic Predecessors of Need in the History of English (c750-1710)

Lucía Loureiro-Porto

• Paperback | Engels | Publications of the Philological Society | nr. 43
• In the history of English at least five verbs have been found to mean 'need' Þurfan, beÞurfan, need, behove and mister. By adopting a corpus-based app... Lees meer

Language, Society and Identity in Early Iceland

Stephen Pax Leonard

• Paperback | Engels | Publications of the Philological Society | nr. 45
• Language, Society and Identity in early Iceland offers a much-needed exploration into the problem of linguistic and social identity construction in ea... Lees meer

Diachronic Dialectology

Tamsin S T Blaxter

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• This book presents the use of kernel smoothing , a family of methods adapted from fields such as signal processing, as a way to identify the true spat... Lees meer

Words Derived from Old Norse in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Richard Dance

• Paperback | Engels | Publications of the Philological Society
• The most rigorous description ever undertaken of the Scandinavian influence on the vocabulary of a major Middle English text, and a new model for the ... Lees meer

Comparative Syntax of the Dial

Adam Ledgeway

• Paperback | Engels | Publications of the Philological Society | nr. 33
• The book investigates the little studied syntax of the dialects of southern Italy. In addition to providing a descriptive account of a wide range of s... Lees meer

Focus in Hausa

Melanie Green

• Paperback | Engels | Publications of the Philological Society | nr. 40
• This book investigates the morphosyntax, semantics and discourse properties of focus and wh -constructions in Hausa, and introduces readers to aspects... Lees meer

Colonialism and Grammatical Representation

Richard Steadman-Jones

• Paperback | Engels | Publications of the Philological Society | nr. 41
• A detailed study of Gilchrist's grammatical praxis which presents a picture of the complex relationship between grammatical inquiry and the politics o... Lees meer

Jersey Norman French

Mari Catrin Jones

• Paperback | Engels | Publications of the Philological Society | nr. 34
• This book is the first to present a comprehensive linguistic study of Jersey Norman French. Drawing on a corpus of original data, it offers historical... Lees meer

Ancient Celtic Placenames in Europe and Asia Minor, Number 39

Patrick Sims-Williams

• Paperback | Engels | Publications of the Philological Society | nr. 39
• An original study revealing the history of place-names from Ireland to Anatolia, from Scotland to the Apennines, and from to Andalusia the Black Seas.... Lees meer