Screen LibraryThe handbook of historical linguistics. Volume II /
"We propose to edit a second volume of the highly successful 2003 Handbook of Historical Linguistics (HoHL1), keeping key chapters (with some updating) from that book that give an overview of essential subareas within historical linguistics, redoing a few chapters which are important but were l...
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,
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| Publisher Address: | Hoboken, NJ : |
| Publication Dates: | 2021. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Blackwell handbooks in linguistics
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| Summary: |
"We propose to edit a second volume of the highly successful 2003 Handbook of Historical Linguistics (HoHL1), keeping key chapters (with some updating) from that book that give an overview of essential subareas within historical linguistics, redoing a few chapters which are important but were less than successful in the 2003 tome, reprinting a chapter from a different Blackwell Handbook, and adding many new topics that complement and supplement HoHL1. We do not duplicate the latter's long introduction (it may be turned into a separate monograph) but instead give a more standard, brief introduction laying out the rationale for a 2nd volume. By way of situating this second volume in a broader context of handbooks, and of clarifying its relation to the 2003 volume, let us say that we feel strongly that just updating each chapter would not yield the best possible book, largely because the essential issues in historical linguistics that are so well covered in HoHL1 have not changed all that much in the decade since its publication. Further, in HoHL1,we deliberately included several chapters on the same topic (e.g., for sound-change: Mark Hale on the Neogrammarian approach, Gregory Guy on the variationist approach, and Paul Kiparsky on the phonologically based approach), since we felt it was important to give a sense of the points on which there is legitimate debate and controversy. However, with those controversies aired there, there is no need for re-including all of the scholarly back-and-forth and varying viewpoints. Readers interested in seeing scholars go back and forth on certain topics can still get that from HoHl1. This is the basis for our decision to keep only chapters dealing directly with core matters in the discipline (= sound change, analogy, semantic change, etc.) and to ask the respective authors for updates (especially as regards bibliography) for those and only those"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xv, 686 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: |
9781118732212 1118732219 |
| Index Number: | P140 |
| CLC: | H0-09 |
| Call Number: | H0-09/H236-1/v.2 |