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 syntactic phenomena, the discussion shows how the model of language embodied in Chomsky's (1995) Minimalist Program can be profitably extended to the study of the syntax of southern Italian dialects, focusing on such topics as Case-marking and finite, infinitival and participial complementation.

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 and dialectological sketches, an assessment of language

planning on Jersey, and an account of language change in progress. It

also establishes the relevance of Jersey Norman French to the field of

language obsolescence.

In this detailed survey of Finnish, Hungarian, Lapp and the other Uralic Languages, Angela Marcantonio shows there is in fact no scientific evidence to support the belief that they form a genetic family. If this approach is accepted, this detailed analysis will have far-reaching consequences for other assumed language families.

This is a collection of 'linguistic autobiographies' by 23 British linguists who played a major role in the development of the subject in Britain during the second half of the twentieth century.

• Includes contributions from 23 major British linguists.
  
• Provides an overview of the rapid growth of linguistics in the last 50 years.
  
• Reflects on the achievements of British linguistics since the Second World War.

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.

• Includes numerous original maps and uncovers new methodology for linguistic geography


• Uses a dataset of over 20,000 names recorded by Greek and Latin authors such as Polybius, Caesar and Tacitus and by early geographers such as Strabo, Pliny, Ptolemy and the Ravenna Cosmographer


• A significant work for archaeologists, historians and philologists studying the early...

This book investigates the morphosyntax, semantics and discourse properties of focus and wh-constructions in Hausa, and introduces readers to aspects of the syntax of a major world language unfamiliar to most linguists.

• Represents the first detailed and comprehensive exposition of focus related constructions in Hausa from the perspective of a major contemporary theoretical framework
  
• Explores aspects of the syntax of focus in Hausa which have only recently begun to be described
  
• Authoritative and up-to-date, detailing recent...

A detailed study of Gilchrist's grammatical praxis which presents a picture of the complex relationship between grammatical inquiry and the politics of colonial discourse in the early years of the Indian Empire.

• Develops a method of reading colonial grammars that acknowledges both the technical and the political dimensions of the text
  
• Explores the political consequences of the choices that grammarians made that could easily elicit reactions of fear, confusion, and even contempt in colonial observers
  
• Presents a picture of the complex...

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' or 'thick'. This book explores the motivation for some of the lexemes in this semantic field across the history of the English language, considering the range of cognitive mechanisms and cultural factors that can inform metaphorical and metonymical mappings.

• Provides a much-needed diachronic approach to theories of metaphor and metonymy within cognitive semantics, building on the work of scholars...

This is a theoretical account of Swedish noun phrases and, in particular, of the distribution of features within them. The account is formulated in terms of head-driven phrase structure grammar (HPSG), and is based on a detailed discussion of two aspects of Swedish noun phrase: the status of the definite ending and the headedness of the phrases.

This book is the first detailed study since the 1970sof the characteristics of distinctive nasalization in sound change.