Dunton-Downer offers a lively look at the history of the English language through an in-depth study of 50 words that are now part of the global lexicon.

Through the fascinating stories of thirty English words used and understood in nearly all corners of the globe, The English Is Coming! takes readers on an eye-opening journey across culture and commerce, war and peace, and time and space.

What are “Hypernyms and Hyponyms”?

This is the only book in human history that presents a confessional description of criminal forgery that fraudulently introduced the legendary version of British history that continues to be repeated in modern textbooks.

In Reconciling Indo-European Syllabification, Adam Cooper brings together two seemingly disparate phenomena associated with Indo-European syllable structure: the heterosyllabic treatment of medial consonant clusters, which tolerates CVC ...

Inspired by postcolonial and psychoanalytic theories, the author shows that modern German-Jewish writers inhabit a Third Space which poses an alternative to an understanding of culture as a homogeneous tradition based on (national) unity.By ...

Im Unterschied zum Hauptziel der etymologischen Wörterbücher beabsichtigt dieses neuartige Wörterbuch nicht, die allgemeine Verwandtschaft von Wörtern innerhalb einer Wortfamilie nachzuweisen, sondern die auf eine gemeinsame ...

Owen Barfield's original and thought-provoking works over three-quarters of a century made him a legendary cult figure. This popular book provides a brief, brilliant history of those who have spoken the Indo-European tongues.

Das Hispano-romanische Namenbuch stellt ein Lexikon der Personennamen vorrömischer, griechischer und lateinisch-romanischer Herkunft auf der Iberischen Halbinsel im 6.‒12.

This part of the book may serve as a stimulus for the necessary discussion of the subject.