Historical Linguistics

Historical Sociolinguistics: Language Change in Tudor and Stuart England is the seminal text in the field of historical sociolinguistics. Demonstrating the real-world application of sociolinguistic research methodologies, this book examines the social factors which promoted linguistic changes in Eng..

History, archaeology, and human evolutionary genetics provide us with an increasingly detailed view of the origins and development of the peoples that live in Northwestern Europe. This book aims to restore the key position of historical linguistics in this debate by treating the history of the Germa..

The volume in the field of Iranian, Semitic and Turkic contact linguistics, is the first of its kind, providing a summary of the present results of this dynamic field of research...

From the middle of the twentieth century, dozens of medievalists and other performers have recorded early English. Many educational institutions already own sound recordings of English before 1500, or may wish to purchase the most useful ones available. This discography aims to assist teachers, admi..

This volume offers a comprehensive account of the study of language change in verb meaning in the history of the English language. The book explores the complex dynamic between linguistic structures, morphosyntactic and semantics, and the conceptual domain of meaning...

Trask’s Historical Linguistics is an approachable and engaging introduction to historical linguistics – the study of language change over time. This third edition discusses language change, linguistic reconstruction, and the birth and death of languages using language examples from around the world...