The authority on grammar, usage, and style.

Some structural features of languages predict others, some remain unchanged in daughter languages, others have an areal consistency; in establishing typologically, historically and geographically stable features in the worlds languages, ...

Requiring no background in linguistics, this book introduces readers to the rich diversity of human languages.

A thorough review of the worldwide problem of language endangerment and death.

This book challenges media-celebrated evolutionary studies linking Indo-European languages to Neolithic Anatolia, instead defending traditional practices in historical linguistics.

This new edition of Wheelock's Latin has all of the features, many of them improved and expanded, that have made it the bestselling single-volume beginning Latin textbook: 40 chapters with grammatical explanations and readings drawn from ...

In English with an Accent Rosina Lippi-Green examines American attitudes towards language, exposing the way in which language is used to maintain and perpetuate social structures.

Jack D. Forbes's monumental Africans and Native Americans has become a canonical text in the study of relations between the two groups.

This book answers the most obvious, the most important, yet the most difficult question about human history: why history unfolded so differently on different continents.

Winner of the British Association of Applied Linguistics Book Prize 2014 This book addresses how the new linguistic concept of 'Translanguaging' has contributed to our understandings of language, bilingualism and education, with potential ...