Historical linguistics
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Historical linguistics
Arnold , Distributed in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 1996
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- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. [410]-422
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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: pbk ISBN 9780340607589
Description
This is a major introduction to historical linguistics, designed for students who have no background in historical linguistics but who have at least some knowledge of phonetics, phonology and morphology. Historical linguistic theory is introduced throughout where appropriate, although the book presupposes no acquaintance with contemporary theories of phonology or syntax. The author introduces all major types of change, consequences of change (dialect and language families), methods in historical linguistics, and later chapters deal with sociolinguistic aspects of change, language contact, birth and death of languages, language and prehistory and finally the issue of very remote relations.
The book covers the more recent work on the study of phonological changes in progress, on morphological and syntactic change, and on typological approaches to change, and it addresses such recent controversies as the Nostratic hypothesis and the Greenberg/Cavalli-Sforza work on language, genes and teeth. It also treats etymology and onomastics in some detail.
The approach is data oriented throughout. Students are encouraged to confront data, to spot patterns and to construct their own accounts and they are encouraged to consider their own experience of English and other languages.
Table of Contents
To the reader
To the teacher
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
List of figures
List of tables
1 The fact of language change
2 Lexical and semantic change
3 Phonological change I: change in pronunciation
4 Phonological change II: change in phonological systems
5 Morphological change
6 Syntactic change
7 Relatedness between languages
8 The comparative method
9 Internal reconstruction
10 The origin and propagation of change
11 Contact and the birth and death of languages
12 Language and prehistory
13 Very remote relations
Appendix The Swadesh 200-word list
Bibliography
Index
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: hbk ISBN 9780340662953
Description
An introduction to historical linguistics designed for students with no background in the subject, but who have some knowledge of phonetics, phonology and morphology. Historical linguistic theory is introduced throughout where appropriate although the book presupposes no acquaintance with contemporary theories of phonology or syntax. The author introduces all major types of change, consequences of change, methods in historical lingustics, and later chapters deal with sociolinguistic aspects of change, language contact, birth and death of languages, language and prehistory and finally the issue of very remote relations. The book covers the more recent work on the study of phonological changes in progress, on morphological and syntactic change, and on typological approaches to change, and it address such recent controversies as the Nostratic hypothesis and the Greenburg/Cavalli-Sforza work on language, genes and teeth. It also treats etymology and onomastics in some detail. The approach is data orientated throughout and a range of exercises are included at the end of each chapter.
Table of Contents
- The fact of language change
- lexical and semantic change
- phonological change - change in pronunciation
- phonological change - change in phonological systems
- morphological change
- syntactic change
- relatedness between languages
- the comparative method and reconstruction
- internal reconstruction
- the origin and propagation of change
- contact and the birth and death of languages
- language and prehistory
- very remote relations.
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