Historical Linguistics: An IntroductionMIT Press, 2004 - 448 sider This accessible, hands-on text not only introduces students to the important topicsin historical linguistics but also shows them how to apply the methods described and how to thinkabout the issues; abundant examples and exercises allow students to focus on how to do historicallinguistics. Distinctive to this text is its integration of the standard topics with others nowconsidered important to the field, including syntactic change, grammaticalization, sociolinguisticcontributions to linguistic change, distant genetic relationships, areal linguistics, and linguisticprehistory. Examples are taken from a broad range of languages; those from the more familiarEnglish, French, German, and Spanish make the topics more accessible, while those fromnon-Indo-European languages show the depth and range of the concepts they illustrate.This secondedition features expanded explanations and examples as well as updates in light of recent work inlinguistics, including a defense of the family tree model, a response to recent claims on lexicaldiffusion/frequency, and a section on why languages diversify and spread. |
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... Comparative Method and Linguistic Reconstruction 5.1 Introduction 122 122 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.2 The Comparative Method Up Close and Personal A Case Study Indo - European and the Regularity of Sound Change Basic Assumptions of the ...
... Comparative Method 240 8.6 Exercises 242 9.1 Introduction 9 Semantic Change and Lexical Change 9.2 Traditional Considerations 252 252 254 9.3 Attempts to Explain Semantic Change 266 9.4 Other Kinds of Lexical Change - New Words 272 9.5 ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Sound Change | 16 |
Borrowing | 62 |
Analogical Change | 103 |
The Comparative Method | 122 |
Linguistic Classification | 184 |
Models of Linguistic Change | 211 |
Internal Reconstruction | 225 |
Explaining Linguistic Change | 312 |
Areal Linguistics | 330 |
Distant Genetic Relationship | 344 |
The Role of Written Records | 361 |
Linguistic Prehistory | 378 |
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