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

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, ...

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

Ten years of research back up the bold new theory advanced by authors Thomason and Kaufman, who rescue the study of contact-induced language change from the neglect it has suffered in recent decades.

First published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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

Introduces readers to the rich diversity of human languages, familiarizing them with the variety of languages around the world.

The Story of English is the extraordinary tale of a language that came from nowhere to conquer the world.

Joan Bybee and her colleagues present a new theory of the evolution of grammar that links structure and meaning in a way that directly challenges most contemporary versions of generative grammar.