An Introduction To Historical Linguistics
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Author | : Lyle Campbell |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 521 |
Release | : 2021-03-30 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0262542188 |
The new edition of a comprehensive, accessible, and hands-on text in historical linguistics, revised and expanded, with new material and a new layout. This accessible, hands-on textbook not only introduces students to the important topics in historical linguistics but also shows them how to apply the methods described and how to think about the issues. Abundant examples from a broad range of languages and exercises allow students to focus on how to do historical linguistics. The book is distinctive for its integration of the standard topics with others now considered important to the field, including syntactic change, grammaticalization, sociolinguistic contributions to linguistic change, distant genetic relationships, areal linguistics, and linguistic prehistory.
Author | : Winfred Philipp Lehmann |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Language and languages |
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Author | : Brian Joseph |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 904 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0470756330 |
The Handbook of Historical Linguistics provides a detailed account of the numerous issues, methods, and results that characterize current work in historical linguistics, the area of linguistics most directly concerned with language change as well as past language states. Contains an extensive introduction that places the study of historical linguistics in its proper context within linguistics and the historical sciences in general Covers the methodology of historical linguistics and presents sophisticated overviews of the principles governing phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic change Includes contributions from the leading specialists in the field
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 | : Margaret E. Winters |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2020-05-08 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027261237 |
This textbook serves a dual purpose. It is, first, a comprehensive introduction to historical linguistics, intended for both undergraduate and graduate students who have taken, at the least, an introductory course in linguistics. Secondly, unlike many such textbooks, this one is based in the theoretical framework of Cognitive Linguistics, a semantics-based theory which emphasizes the relationship between cognition and language. Descriptions and explanations touch on cognitive, social, and physiological aspects of language as it changes across time. Examples come principally from Germanic (English, German, Yiddish) and Romance (French and Spanish), but with some exploration of aspects of the history of other languages as well. Each chapter concludes with exercises based on material in the chapter and also with suggestions for extensions of the content to wider issues in diachronic linguistics.
Author | : Anthony Arlotto |
Publisher | : Upa |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
Originally published by Houghton Mifflin in 1972, this introductory text deals with human language and its relationship to other areas of human culture and behavior. Discussions include such diverse topics as the classification of languages, sound and grammar changes, reconstruction, and social and psychological factors involved in the history and development of language.
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 | : Raimo Anttila |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
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Author | : Robert Blust |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2018-02-16 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 147442922X |
Author | : Claire Bowern |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 1072 |
Release | : 2015-03-24 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1317743237 |
The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics provides a survey of the field covering the methods which underpin current work; models of language change; and the importance of historical linguistics for other subfields of linguistics and other disciplines. Divided into five sections, the volume encompass a wide range of approaches and addresses issues in the following areas: historical perspectives methods and models language change interfaces regional summaries Each of the thirty-two chapters is written by a specialist in the field and provides: a introduction to the subject; an analysis of the relationship between the diachronic and synchronic study of the topic; an overview of the main current and critical trends; and examples from primary data. The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics is essential reading for researchers and postgraduate students working in this area. Chapter 28 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9781315794013.ch28