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Author:   D. Gary Miller
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.40cm , Height: 5.90cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   1.628kg
ISBN:  

9780199590216

ISBN 10:   0199590214
Pages:   912
Publication Date:   26 August 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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VOLUME I: APPROACHES, METHODOLOGY, AND SOUND CHANGE ; 1. How Language Change is Investigated ; 2. Reconstructing Language History ; 3. Building on the Tradition ; 4. Analogy and Systematic Repair ; 5. Motivations of Language Change ; 6. Natural Processes ; 7. Inverted Operations ; 8. Denaturalized Phonetic Processes ; 9. Tempo and Mora in Phonological Change ; 10. Vowel Shifts and the Middle English Vowels ; VOLUMME II: MORPHOLOGICAL, SYNTACTIC, AND TYPOLOGICAL CHANGE ; 1. Word Order and Typology: Core Data ; 2. Word Order in Theory and Change ; 3. Grammaticalization ; 4. Morphological Change ; 5. The Feminine Gender in Indo-European ; 6. Phrase Structure and Verb Classes ; 7. The Mediopassive: Latin to Romance ; 8. The History of English DO ; 9. Syntactic Change ; 10. The Development of Creole Categories ; Special Phonetic Symbols ; Primary Sources: Texts and Editions ; Consolidated References for Volume I and II ; Language Index ; Subject Index

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Gary Miller is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Classics at the University of Florida. He received his PhD from Harvard in 1969, with a dissertation on Studies in Some Forms of the Genitive Singular in Indo-European. He is the author of some 45 articles on Indo-European, classical, and general linguistics. His books include Homer and the Ionian Epic Tradition (1982), Improvisation, Typology, Culture, and 'The New Orthodoxy': How 'Oral' is Homer? (1982), Complex Verb Formation (1993), Ancient Scripts and Phonological Knowledge (1994), Nonfinite Structures in Theory and Change (OUP 2002), and Latin Suffixal Derivatives in English (OUP 2005).

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