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Olga Kellert
The (in)transparency of meaning change and variation : A study of the indefinite cualquiera in European and Argentinian Spanish

This book investigates the development of indefinites like cualquiera in European and Argentinian Spanish, tracing their path from modal meanings like free choice and random selection to evaluative and ev…

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Linguistic and Cultural Dynamics in a Frontier Society

Empirie und Theorie der Sprachwissenschaft - Band 9

By synthesizing new data and offering novel analyses of the early medieval landscape in a region of shifting political and cultural boundaries, this volume traces how and when interactions developed among…

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Marcelle Cole
The Early History of they

New Approaches to English Historical Linguistics

This book challenges the long-held theory that the English pronouns they, their, them are loanwords from Old Norse, arguing instead that the pronouns ultimately derive from the Old English demonstratives …

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Jacques Pauwels
Beneath the Dust of Time

Beneath the Dust of Time is an unconventional combination of history and the etymology of names. It was inspired and guided by two new paradigms. The first is the "Sahara hypothesis." This theor…

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Vanessa Braganza
The Secret Seekers

Coded messages, hidden carvings, ciphered pendants: what if the secrets of the women of Renaissance England are hidden in plain sight?Now celebrated as an artistic and literary golden age, the Renaissance…

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Rebecca Shapiro
Lexicography and the Law

Elements in Applied Linguistics

Legal professionals in the United States increasingly have relied on dictionaries, both current and historical, in court cases. This practice is complicated because originalist jurists are often not well-…

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Rebecca Shapiro
Lexicography and the Law

Elements in Applied Linguistics

Legal professionals in the United States increasingly have relied on dictionaries, both current and historical, in court cases. This practice is complicated because originalist jurists are often not well-…

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Todd S. Frobish
Discourses at Play

Todd Frobish explores a diverse set of historical crises through the lens of "rhetorical gameplay", an approach that serves as the intersection between rhetorical theory and game studies.The fie…

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Jr. William A. Kretzschmar
The Emergence and Development of American English

"Based on copious data from the Linguistic Atlas Project, this book tells the story of American English from a linguistic standpoint, illustrated with real-life examples of language in use. Authorita…

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Jr. William A. Kretzschmar
The Emergence and Development of American English

"Based on copious data from the Linguistic Atlas Project, this book tells the story of American English from a linguistic standpoint, illustrated with real-life examples of language in use. Authorita…

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Pamoja tena 'Together again' : African linguistics after COVID

Contemporary African Linguistics 14

The papers in this volume were selected from those presented at the 54th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, which was held at the University of Connecticut in June, 2024. The volume contains 22 pap…

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Language Change: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives

Jerusalem Studies in Philosophy and History of Science

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of recent advances in empirical, theoretical, and experimental research on language change, with a focus on semantic evolution. Bridging the gap between histor…

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Bo Wang, Tianqi Ma, Yuanyi Ma
Introducing Wang Li

Focusing on the life and works of Wang Li, one of the founding figures of modern Chinese linguistics, this book offers a comprehensive introduction to his scholarship. It presents Wang Li as a pioneering …

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Raevin Jimenez
Gather Your Ancestors

Historically, southeasternmost Africa has been home to a large variety of speech communities, including Nguni, East Bantu, Khoi, and San---the legacy of a long and complicated history of migration, intera…

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Bo Wang, Tianqi Ma, Yuanyi Ma
Introducing Wang Li

Focusing on the life and works of Wang Li, one of the founding figures of modern Chinese linguistics, this book offers a comprehensive introduction to his scholarship. It presents Wang Li as a pioneering …

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Mark Faulkner
A New Literary History of the Long Twelfth Century

A New Literary History of the Long Twelfth Century offers a new narrative of what happened to English language writing in the long twelfth century, the period that saw the end of the Old English tradition…

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Chiara Ghezzi
The Pragmatics of Queenship in Shakespeare's Drama

This book addresses the characterisation and representation of female authority in Shakespeare's political plays by collecting the linguistic behavioural patterns of the queens of the first tetralogy (Kin…

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Acting on actuation

Conceptual Foundations of Language Science

This volume presents a timely discussion on one of the most fundamental and yet elusive questions in historical linguistics: why do certain linguistic changes take place in some languages at specific time…

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King Jacob
Further Scottish Place-Name Papers

William J. Watson (1865-1948) was one of the most important figures in the study of Scottish place-names and Gaelic historical linguistics and literature. Best known for Place-names of Ross and Cromarty (…

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