Introduction to Historical Linguistics

Name: Introduction to Historical Linguistics
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ISBN: 9780195365542

ISBN-10: 0195365542

ISBN-13: 9780195365542

Edition: 4th 2009

Authors: Terry Crowley, Claire Bowern

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All languages change, just as other aspects of human society are constantly changing. This book is an introduction to the concepts and techniques of diachronic linguistics, the study of language change over time. It covers all themajor areas of historical linguistics, presenting concepts in a clear and concise way. Examples are given from a wide range of languages, with special emphasis on the languages of Australia and the Pacific. While the needs of undergraduate students of linguistics have been kept firmly in mind, the book will also be of interest to the general reader seeking to understand langauge and language change. For this fourth edition, a number of new sections have been…

Book details

List price: $31.99
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/4/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 408
Size: 9.09" wide x 6.10" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English

Terry Crowley is a professor of HIstory at the University of Guelph. Among his previous books, Agnes Macphail and the Politics of Equality won the W.C. Good Writing Award of the Rural Learning Association.



Tables, Figures, Maps, Preface, Phonetic Symbols, Language Maps



Introduction



Types of Sound Change



Expressing Sound Changes



Phonetic and Phonemic Changes



The Comparative Method (1): Procedures



Determining Relatedness



Internal Reconstruction



Computational and Statistical Methods



The Comparative Method (2.) History and Challenges



Morphological Change



Semantic and Lexical Change



Syntactic Change



Observing Language Change



Language Contact



Cultural Reconstruction


Data Sets


Language Index


References


Endnotes


Index