The handbook of historical linguistics

Author(s)

• Joseph, Brian D.
• Janda, Richard D.

Bibliographic Information

The handbook of historical linguistics

edited by Brian D. Joseph and Richard D. Janda

（Blackwell handbooks in linguistics）

Blackwell Pub., 2005

[Paperback ed.]

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [744]-842) and indexes

Originally published: [hardcover ed.] : 2003

First published in paperback in 2005

Description and Table of Contents

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 most directly concerned with language change as well as past language states. Contains an extensive introduction that places the study of historical linguistics in its proper context within linguistics and the historical sciences in general Covers the methodology of historical linguistics and presents sophisticated overviews of the principles governing phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic change Includes contributions from the leading specialists in the field

Table of Contents

List of Contributors ix Preface xi Part I Introduction 1 On Language, Change, and Language Change - Or, Of History, Linguistics, and Historical Linguistics 3 Richard D. Janda and Brian D. Joseph Part II Methods for Studying Language Change 181 1 The Comparative Method 183 Robert L. Rankin 2 On the Limits of the Comparative Method 213 S. P. Harrison 3 Internal Reconstruction 244 Don Ringe 4 How to Show Languages are Related: Methods for Distant Genetic Relationship 262 Lyle Campbell 5 Diversity and Stability in Language 283 Johanna Nichols Part III Phonological Change 311 6 The Phonological Basis of Sound Change 313 Paul Kiparsky 7 Neogrammarian Sound Change 343 Mark Hale 8 Variationist Approaches to Phonological Change 369 Gregory R. Guy 9 "Phonologization" as the Start of Dephoneticization - Or, On Sound Change and its Aftermath: Of Extension, Generalization, Lexicalization, and Morphologization 401 Richard D. Janda Part IV Morphological and Lexical Change 423 10 Analogy: The Warp and Woof of Cognition 425 Raimo Anttila 11 Analogical Change 441 Hans Henrich Hock 12 Naturalness and Morphological Change 461 Wolfgang U. Dressler 13 Morphologization from Syntax 472 Brian D. Joseph Part V Syntactic Change 493 14 Grammatical Approaches to Syntactic Change 495 David Lightfoot 15 Variationist Approaches to Syntactic Change 509 Susan Pintzuk 16 Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on Syntactic Change 529 Alice C. Harris 17 Functional Perspectives on Syntactic Change 552 Marianne Mithun Part Vi Pragmatico-semantic Change 573 18 Grammaticalization 575 Bernd Heine 19 Mechanisms of Change in Grammaticization: The Role of Frequency 602 Joan Bybee 20 Constructions in Grammaticalization 624 Elizabeth Closs Traugott 21 An Approach to Semantic Change 648 Benjamin W. Fortson iv Part VII Explaining Linguistic Change 667 22 Phonetics and Historical Phonology 669 John J. Ohala 23 Contact as a Source of Language Change 687 Sarah Grey Thomason 24 Dialectology and Linguistic Diffusion 713 Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes 25 Psycholinguistic Perspectives on Language Change 736 Jean Aitchison Bibliography 744 Subject Index 843 Name Index 856 Language Index 879

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Details

• NCID: BA71368442
• ISBN:
  • 9781405127479
• LCCN: 2002074363
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Malden, Mass.
• Pages/Volumes: xviii, 881 p.
• Size: 26 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : P140
  • DC21 : 417/.7
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Historical linguistics
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA23928750