This book considers the evolution of the grammatical structure of words in the contexts of human evolution and the origins of language. The author challenges th

This volume aims to make a contribution to codifying the methods and practices linguists use to recover language history, focussing predominantly on historical

What exactly are words? Are they the things that get listed in dictionaries, or are they the basic units of sentence structure? Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy explor

This book explores the origin and evolution of important grammatical categories of the Indo-European verb, including the markers of person, tense, number, aspec

This volume offers a selection of papers from the Eleventh International Conference on English Historical Linguistics held at the University of Santiago de Comp