| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 757 pages) |
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Routledge handbooks in linguistics |
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Routledge handbooks in linguistics.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Editors' acknowledgements; Editors' introduction: foundations of the new historical linguistics; Part I Overviews; 1 Lineage and the constructive imagination: the birth of historical linguistics; 2 New perspectives in historical linguistics; 3 Compositionality and change; Part II Methods and models; 4 The Comparative Method; 5 The Comparative Method: theoretical issues; 6 Trees, waves and linkages: models of language diversification; 7 Language phylogenies |
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8 Diachronic stability and typologyPart III Language change; 9 Sound change; 10 Phonological changes; 11 Morphological change; 12 Morphological reconstruction; 13 Functional syntax and language change; 14 Generative syntax and language change; 15 Syntax and syntactic reconstruction; 16 Lexical semantic change and semantic reconstruction; 17 Formal semantics/pragmatics and language change; 18 Discourse; 19 Etymology; 20 Sign languages in their historical context; 21 Language acquisition and language change; 22 Social dimensions of language change |
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23 Language use, cognitive processes and linguistic change24 Contact-induced language change; 25 Language attrition and language change; Part IV Interfaces; 26 Demographic correlates of language diversity; 27 Historical linguistics and socio-cultural reconstruction; 28 Prehistory through language and archaeology; 29 Historical linguistics and molecular anthropology; Part V Regional summaries; 30 Indo-European: methods and problems; 31 The Austronesian language family; 32 The Austroasiatic language phylum: a typology of phonological restructuring; 33 Pama-Nyungan |
| Summary |
"The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics provides a survey of the field covering the methods which underpin current work; models of language change; and the importance of historical linguistics for other subfields of linguistics and other disciplines. Divided into five sections, the volume encompass a wide range of approaches and addresses issues in the following areas: historical perspectivesmethods and modelslanguage changeinterfacesregional summariesEach of the thirty-two chapters is written by a specialist in the field and provides: a introduction to the subject; an analysis of the relationship between the diachronic and synchronic study of the topic; an overview of the main current and critical trends; and examples from primary data. The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics is essential reading for researchers and postgraduate students working in this area"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Historical linguistics -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General.
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Historical linguistics
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| Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bowern, Claire, 1977- editor.
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Evans, Bethwyn, editor
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| ISBN |
9781317743248 |
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1317743245 |
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9781315794013 |
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1315794012 |
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9781306971584 |
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1306971586 |
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9781317743231 |
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1317743237 |
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