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An entertaining, illuminating lexicography of words coined by authors throughout the ages, published on the "sesquiquadricentennialâ ? (450th anniversary) of......

Written by one of the pioneers of the field of forensic linguistics, this collection presents 30 years of research and...

Mayan civilization, renowned for its mathematics, writing, architecture, religion, calendrics, and agriculture, fascinates scholars and a wide lay public as...

Using extensive data - mostly gleaned from the National Archives - this book examines the way in which British...

The founding fathers (a term created by Warren G. Harding for his "front porch campaign" of 1920) felt that coining...

Latin names - frequently unpronounceable, all too often wrong and always a tiny puzzle to unravel - have been annoying...

This book argues that the sudden decline of old rural vernaculars - such as French patois, Italian dialects, and the...

The most up-to-date history and assessment of one of Europe's oldest living languages. Author: Davies, Janet Publisher: University of Wales Press Illustrati......

War words have embedded themselves in our collective psyche; British politicians are fond of invoking the 'Dunkirk spirit' whenever the...

Human language is not the same as human speech. We use gestures and signs to communicate alongside, or instead of,...

Witty and erudite, Written in Stone is the first etymology book to reveal how the English language is based on...

A major critical work from one of the preeminent voices of science fiction scholarship Author: Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. Publisher: Wesleyan Illustration: ......

“A fascinating study not only of the roots and growth of our own language but of its future.”—Bloomsbur y Review It...

Deeply educational yet not overwhelming, this compact culmination of a philological life uses nontechnical terms to explain the links between...

The History of English: An Introduction provides a chronological analysis of the linguistic, social, and cultural development of the English...

Originally published as the Continuum Companion to Historical Linguistics, this book brings together a number of leading scholars who provide...

This book is a composite of 40 purely scientific and peer-reviewed papers presented during the Seventh World Congress of African...

These essays were drawn from the papers presented at the Linguistic Society of America's Summer Institute at the State University...