Screen LibraryLanguage history, language change, and language relationship : an introduction to historical and comparative linguistics /
This revised and updated edition of the authors' successful 1996 introductory textbook explores, with ample illustrations from familiar and also from more exotic languages, both the causes and the substance of language change. Internal and external causes are discussed, with particular attentio...
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De Gruyter Mouton,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin ;Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2009] ©2009 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 2nd rev. ed. |
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Trends in linguistics. studies and monographs [tilsm] ;
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| Summary: |
This revised and updated edition of the authors' successful 1996 introductory textbook explores, with ample illustrations from familiar and also from more exotic languages, both the causes and the substance of language change. Internal and external causes are discussed, with particular attention to the role of social factors in language change. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (605pages). |
| ISBN: | 9783110214307 |
| Index Number: | P140 |
| CLC: | H0 |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The discovery of Indo-European -- Chapter 3. Writing: Its history and its decipherment -- Chapter 4. Sound change -- Chapter 5. Analogy and change in word structure -- Chapter 6. Syntactic change -- Chapter 7. Semantic change -- Chapter 8. Lexical borrowing -- Chapter 9. Lexical change and etymology: The study of words -- Chapter 10. Language, dialect, and standard -- Chapter 11. Dialect geography and dialectology -- Chapter 12. Language spread, link languages, and bilingualism -- Chapter 13. Convergence: Dialectology beyond languageboundaries -- Chapter 14. Pidgins, creoles, and related forms of language -- Chapter 15. Language death -- Chapter 16. Comparative method: Establishing language relationship -- Chapter 17. Proto-World?: The question of long-distance genetic relationships -- Chapter 18. Historical linguistics, history, and prehistory: Linguistic paleontology and other applications of our methods -- Chapter notes and suggested readings -- Backmatter |