This book addresses the complex question of how and why languages have spread across the globe. International experts in the field explore this issue using new

This book addresses the complex question of how and why languages have spread across the globe: why do we find large language families distributed over a wide a

This book provides an overview of approaches to language and culture, and it outlines the broad interdisciplinary field of anthropological linguistics and lingu

Issues in multilingualism and its implications for communities and society at large, language acquisition and use, language diversification, and creative langua

This collection showcases the contributions of the study of endangered and understudied languages to historical linguistic analysis, and the broader relevance o