Linguistic Reconstruction
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Author | : Anthony Fox |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780198700012 |
"Anthony Fox's new textbook is primarily for students with an elementary knowledge of general linguistics who need an up-to-date introduction to historical linguistics, particularly to new developments in the theory and practice of linguistic reconstruction." -- Back cover.
Author | : Christopher Ehret |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1982-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780520045934 |
Author | : Jacek Fisiak |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2011-07-20 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110816504 |
TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.
Author | : Philip Baldi |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 768 |
Release | : 2011-06-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 311088609X |
TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.
Author | : Paolo Ramat |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 1980-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027235120 |
The aim of the colloquium, from which this volume derives, was to bring together approaches from general linguistics and language reconstruction, to show how these can benefit from eachother. Although the focus was on Indo-European languages, other language families were present in the discussion, as typological insights may provide useful parallels to IE phenomena and problems. At the core of the discussion was the methodological problem of induction vs deduction.
Author | : Hans Henrich Hock |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 1101 |
Release | : 2021-10-25 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110746441 |
Historical linguistic theory and practice consist of a large number of chronological "layers" that have been accepted in the course of time and have acquired a permanence of their own. These range from neogrammarian conceptualizations of sound change, analogy, and borrowing, to prosodic, lexical, morphological, and syntactic change, and to present-day views on rule change and the effects of language contact. To get a full grasp of the principles of historical linguistics it is therefore necessary to understand the nature of each of these "layers". This book is a major revision and reorganization of the earlier editions and adds entirely new chapters on morphological change and lexical change, as well as a detailed discussion of linguistic palaeontology and ideological responses to the findings of historical linguistics to this landmark publication.
Author | : April M. S. McMahon |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1994-03-17 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780521446655 |
This textbook analyses changes from every area of grammar and addresses recent developments in socio-historical linguistics.
Author | : Don Daniels |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2020-03-09 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110616211 |
There is still widespread disagreement among historical linguists about how, or whether, syntactic reconstruction can be done. This book presents a comprehensive methodology for syntactic reconstruction, grounded in a constructional understanding of language. The author then uses that methodology to reconstruct Proto-Sogeram, the ancestor to ten languages in Papua New Guinea. Chapters are devoted to phonology, lexicon, verbal morphosyntax, nominal morphosyntax, and syntactic constructions. The work culminates in a sketch of Proto-Sogeram grammar. Based largely on the author's original fieldwork, this is an innovative application of a novel methodology to new data, and the most complete reconstruction of a Papuan proto-language to date. It will be of interest to scholars of language change, language reconstruction, typology, and Papuan languages.
Author | : Lyle Campbell |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780262532679 |
This accessible, hands-on text not only introduces students to the important topicsin historical linguistics but also shows them how to apply the methods described and how to thinkabout the issues; abundant examples and exercises allow students to focus on how to do historicallinguistics. Distinctive to this text is its integration of the standard topics with others nowconsidered important to the field, including syntactic change, grammaticalization, sociolinguisticcontributions to linguistic change, distant genetic relationships, areal linguistics, and linguisticprehistory. Examples are taken from a broad range of languages; those from the more familiarEnglish, French, German, and Spanish make the topics more accessible, while those fromnon-Indo-European languages show the depth and range of the concepts they illustrate.This secondedition features expanded explanations and examples as well as updates in light of recent work inlinguistics, including a defense of the family tree model, a response to recent claims on lexicaldiffusion/frequency, and a section on why languages diversify and spread.
Author | : Katalin É Kiss |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 538 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9783110185508 |
The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon.