Historical Linguistics An Introduction

Name: Historical Linguistics An Introduction
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ISBN: 9780262531597

ISBN-10: 0262531593

ISBN-13: 9780262531597

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Authors: Lyle Campbell

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Historical linguistics is the study of how and why language changes--both the methods of investigating language change and the theories designed to explain these changes. This highly accessible introductory text takes a hands-on, how-to approach, rather than just talking about the subject as many texts do. The book contains abundant examples both from familiar European languages, to make the topics accessible, and from a variety of non-European languages, to illustrate the depth and range of the concepts. The book also covers a number of essential topics neglected by most texts, including syntactic change, methods for investigating distant genetic relationship, linguistic prehistory, and…

Book details

List price: $37.95
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 1/15/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

List of Tables	p. ix
List of Figures and Maps	p. xii
Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Phonetic Symbols and Conventions	p. xix
Phonetic Symbols Chart	p. xxi
Introduction	p. 1
Sound Change	p. 16
Borrowing	p. 62
Analogical Change	p. 103
The Comparative Method and Linguistic Reconstruction	p. 122
Linguistic Classification	p. 184
Models of Linguistic Change	p. 211
Internal Reconstruction	p. 225
Semantic Change and Lexical Change	p. 252
Syntactic Change	p. 283
Explaining Linguistic Change	p. 312
Areal Linguistics	p. 330
Distant Genetic Relationship	p. 344
Philology: The Role of Written Records	p. 361
Linguistic Prehistory	p. 378
Bibliography	p. 421
Language Index	p. 436
Name Index	p. 442
Subject Index	p. 444
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