Handbook of Historical Linguistics

Name: Handbook of Historical Linguistics
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ISBN: 9781405127479

ISBN-10: 1405127473

ISBN-13: 9781405127479

Edition: 2005

Authors: Brian Joseph, Richard Janda

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This volume provides an account of the numerous issues, methods, and results that characterize historical linguistics, the area of linguistics concerned with language change as well as past language states.

Book details

List price: $94.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/14/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 904
Size: 6.78" wide x 9.75" long x 1.93" tall
Weight: 3.410
Language: English



List of Contributors


Preface



Introduction


On Language, Change, and Language Change - Or, Of History, Linguistics, and Historical Linguistics




Methods for Studying Language Change



The Comparative Method




On the Limits of the Comparative Method




Internal Reconstruction




How to Show Languages are Related: Methods for Distant Genetic Relationship




Diversity and Stability in Language




Phonological Change



The Phonological Basis of Sound Change




Neogrammarian Sound Change




Variationist Approaches to Phonological Change




"Phonologization" as the Start of Dephoneticization - Or, On Sound Change and its Aftermath: Of Extension, Generalization, Lexicalization, and Morphologization




Morphological and Lexical Change



Analogy: The Warp and Woof of Cognition




Analogical Change




Naturalness and Morphological Change




Morphologization from Syntax




Syntactic Change



Grammatical Approaches to Syntactic Change




Variationist Approaches to Syntactic Change




Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on Syntactic Change




Functional Perspectives on Syntactic Change




Pragmatico-Semantic Change



Grammaticalization




Mechanisms of Change in Grammaticization: The Role of Frequency




Constructions in Grammaticalization




An Approach to Semantic Change




Explaining Linguistic Change



Phonetics and Historical Phonology




Contact as a Source of Language Change




Dialectology and Linguistic Diffusion




Psycholinguistic Perspectives on Language Change



Bibliography


Subject Index


Name Index


Language Index