Series: Publications of the Philological Society

In this book, which is aimed at general linguists as well as Uralic specialists, Angela Marcantonio examines the history, phonology, morphology, lexicon and onomastics of the Uralic languages. She uses both conventional and modern statistical methods of analysis. She shows how the belief that these languages form a genetic family is, in fact, based on an interlocking set of assumptions,...

This landmark volume provides a fascinating overview of the evolution of the discipline of linguistics in Britain since the end of the Second World War. It consists of a series of 'linguistic autobiographies' by 23 British linguists who played a major role in the development of the subject during the second half of the twentieth century. Commissioned by the Council...

This book presents the use of kernel smoothing, a family of methods adapted from fields such as signal processing, as a way to identify the true spatial distribution of linguistic forms at particular points in time. Diachronic Dialectology discusses the use of kernel smoothing in historical dialectology and introduces new approaches to parameter setting. It presents a series of case...