Screen LibraryThe handbook of historical linguistics
Publisher's description: 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 concerned with language change as well as past language states. It provides...
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| Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Blackwell handbooks in linguistics
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470756393 |
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Publisher's description: 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 concerned with language change as well as past language states. It provides a comprehensive and current account of the numerous issues, methods, and results that characterize historical linguistics. It contains an extensive introduction that places the study of historical linguistics in its proper context within linguistics and the historical sciences in general. The book cove |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xviii, 881 p.) : ill., maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [744]-842) and indexes. |
| ISBN: |
9780470756393 047075639X 140512296X (electronic bk.) 9781405122962 (electronic bk.) 9780631195719 0631195718 1280284269 9781280284267 |
| Index Number: | P140 |
| CLC: | H0-09 |
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On language, change, and language change -- or, of history, linguistics, and historical linguistics / Comparative method / On the limits of the comparative method / Internal reconstruction / How to show languages are related : methods for distant genetic relationship / Diversity and stability in language / Phonological basis of sound change / Neogrammarian sound change / Variationist approaches to phonological change / "Phonologization" as the start of dephoneticization -- or, on sound change and its aftermath : of extension, generalization, lexicalization, and morphologization / Analogy : the warp and woof of cognition / Analogical change / Naturalness and morphological change / Morphologization from Syntax / Grammatical approaches to syntactic change / Variationist approaches to syntactic change / Cross-linguistic perspectives on syntactic change / Functional perspectives on syntactic change / Grammaticalization / Mechanisms of change in grammaticization : the role of frequency/ Contructions in grammaticalization / Approach to semantic change / Phonetics and historical phonology / Contact as a source of language change / Dialectology and linguistic diffusion / Psycholinguistic perspectives on language change / |