This series provides an outlet for academic monographs which offer a recent and original contribution to linguistics and which are within the descriptive tradition. While the monographs demonstrate their debt to contemporary linguistic thought, the series does not impose limitations in terms of methodology or genre, and does not support a particular linguistic school. Rather the series welcomes new and innovative research that contributes to furthering the understanding of the description of language.

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brings together work which utilises brings together work which utilises the comparative method of language study. the comparative method of language study. Topics include the examination of Topics include the examination of language change over time, the genetic language change over time, the genetic classification of language, lexicography, classification of language, lexicography, dialectology and etymology. dialectology and etymology. Pronunciation, lexis, morphology and syntax are Pronunciation, lexis, morphology and syntax are examined within the examined within the framework of historical linguistics. Both synchronic and framework of historical linguistics. Both synchronic and diachronic approaches diachronic approaches are used so that language is examined both at one time and across time. are used so that language is examined both at one time and across time. Historical Linguistics is still a young area of academic study, but it has its foundations in one of the oldest - philology. This series recognises both the seminal importance of philology, and the recent development through the conceptual framework provided by linguistic science. is based at the Department of Media, Culture and Languages at the University of Roehampton.

This book serves as an insightful ethnographic introduction to the language and oral traditions of the Inugguit, a sub-group of the Inuit who live in north-west Greenland. It will be an invaluable resource for linguists who specialise in the Eskimo-Aleut group and of much interest to anthropologists working on the Arctic region.

This collection of articles by colleagues and students of Leiv Egil Breivik presents studies within both core and peripheral areas of English historical linguistics. Topics range from core areas such as word order and pragmatics to the emergence of new syntactic constructions, language contact and aspects of style in Early Modern English.