What do 'bimbo,' 'glitch,' 'savvy,' and 'shtick' all have in common? They are all expressions used in informal American English that have been taken from other

Based on a rich range of sources, this pioneering book provides a comprehensive description of informal borrowings in American English.

This volume brings together contributions selected from papers delivered at the 21st International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL, Leiden 2

Drawing on detailed case studies across a range of languages, including English, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Czech, Russian, Lithuanian and Gree

The first full study of intensifiers in Late Modern English, combining a range of different theoretical perspectives on courtroom discourse.