Perspectives on historical linguistics
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Perspectives on historical linguistics
（Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science, Series 4 . Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 24）
J. Benjamins, 1982
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University of Tsukuba Library, Library on Library and Information Science
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"Dedicated to the memory of Emile Benveniste, 1902-1976, Jerzy Kuryłowicz, 1895-1978, and George Lane, 1904-1981"--T.p. verso
Bibliography: p. 329-372
Includes indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume presents seven extensive essays by specialists in their respective fields of historical linguistics. The first essay after the Introduction states the principles presented in Directions for Historical Linguistics (1968) and assesses the progress made since then towards constructing a general theory of language change. Like the following essays on phonology and morphology, it poses new questions that have arisen in the increasingly ambitious research. Historical attention to discourse, the topic of the next essay, is virtually new, though it too finds predecessors among philologists who devoted themselves to texts. Finally, two essays treat etymology, one concentrating on the rigorously investigated Romance field, the other on Indo-European, especially on new insights prompted by attention to Hittite.
Table of Contents
- 1. Prefatory note
- 2. Table of contents
- 3. Charts, figures and tables
- 4. Abbreviations
- 5. 1. Introduction: diachronic linguistics (by Lehmann, Winfred P.)
- 6. 2. Building on empirical foundations (by Labov, William)
- 7. 3. A semiotic model of diachronic process phonology (by Dressler, Wolfgang U.)
- 8. 4. Semantically-marked root morphemes in diachronic morphology (by Malkiel, Yakov)
- 9. 5. From propositional to textual and expressive meanings
- some semantic-pragmatic aspects of grammaticalization (by Traugott, Elizabeth Closs)
- 10. 6. Romance Etymology (by Dworkin, Steven N.)
- 11. 7. Indo-european etymology with special reference to grammatical category (by Justus, Carol F.)
- 12. Bibliography
- 13. Subject index
- 14. Author index
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