Language history, language change, and language relationship : an introduction to historical and comparative linguistics /
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De Gruyter,
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Publisher Address: | Berlin : |
Publication Dates: | [2019] |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Edition: | Third revised edition. |
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Mouton textbook
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Carrier Form: | x, 565 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [513]-541) and indexes. |
ISBN: |
9783110609691 (paperback) : 311060969X (paperback) |
Index Number: | P140 |
CLC: | H0 |
Call Number: | H0/H685/3rd rev. ed. |
Contents: | Introduction -- The discovery of Indo-European -- Writing: its history and its decipherment -- Sound change -- Analogy and change in word structure -- Syntactic change -- Semantic change -- Lexical borrowing -- Lexical change and etymology: the study of words -- Language, dialect, and standard -- Dialect geography and dialectology -- Language spread, link languages, and bilingualism -- Convergence: dialectology beyond language boundaries -- Pidgins, creoles, and related forms of language -- Language death -- Comparative method: establishing language relationship -- Proto-world?: the question of long-distance genetic relationships -- Linguistic palaeontology: historical linguistics, history, and prehistory. |