Comparative linguistics and comparative literature, while traditionally academic disciplines, have significant implications for international relations. The comparative study of languages enables a ...

Historical, comparative and typological linguistics collectively constitute an interdisciplinary endeavour aimed at reconstructing language histories, excavating systematic patterns across diverse ...

Nineteenth-century philologists argued that European languages were essentially superior in character and access to scientific knowledge. This line of thinking allowed Europeans to spread colonialism ...

I discuss the role of translatability in philosophical justification. I begin by discussing and defending Thomas Reid’s account of the role that facts about comparative linguistics can play in ...

Anthropological Linguistics, Vol. 35, No. 1/4, A Retrospective of the Journal Anthropological Linguistics: Selected Papers, 1959-1985 (1993), pp. 38-45 (8 pages) ...

Carling, Gerd (ed.) 2017. Diachronic Atlas of Comparative Linguistics Online. Lund: Lund University. (DOI/URL: https://diacl.ht.lu.se/). Accessed on: 2019-02-07. An important additional resource of ...

We offer MPhil and PhD research programmes in English (including American Studies), Comparative Literature or Linguistics for full-time or part-time study. Literary and Creative Studies at Goldsmiths ...

The course literature consists of scholarly book chapters mainly from the two volumes below that are available online through the University Library. Students will choose additional articles in ...

Why did you choose to study Comparative Literature and Linguistics and what attracted you to Queen Mary? I have always been fascinated by languages and English Language was one of my favourite ...

A modern database version (in CLDF format + CLLD webapp) of the Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages by Ralph Lilley Turner.