New Directions for Historical Linguistics

Author:   Hans C. Boas ,  Marc Pierce
Publisher:   Brill
Volume:   9
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9789004414068


Pages:   184
Publication Date:   14 November 2019
Format:   Hardback
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This volume consists of revised versions of presentations given at a roundtable on “New Directions for Historical Linguistics: Impact and Synthesis, 50 Years Later” held at the 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics in San Antonio, Texas, in 2017, as well as an introduction by the editors. The roundtable discussed the evolution of historical linguistics since the 1966 symposium on “Directions for Historical Linguistics,” held in Austin, Texas. Six prominent scholars of historical linguistics and sociolinguistics contributed: William Labov (the only surviving author from the 1968 volume), Gillian Sankoff, Elizabeth Traugott, Brian Joseph, Sarah Thomason, and Paul Hopper (a graduate student assistant at the original symposium).

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Author:   Hans C. Boas ,  Marc Pierce
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   9
Weight:   0.448kg
ISBN:  

9789004414068


ISBN 10:   9004414061
Pages:   184
Publication Date:   14 November 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Preface 1 Where Was Historical Linguistics in 1968 and Where Is It Now?  Marc Pierce and Hans C. Boas 2 What Has Been Built on Empirical Foundations  William Labov 3 Building on Empirical Foundations: Individual and Community Change in Real Time  Gillian Sankoff 4 Timely Notes on Saussure and Hermann Paul after 1968  Paul J. Hopper 5 Historical Linguistics Since 1968: on Some of the Causes of Linguistic Change  Sarah G. Thomason 6 Precursors of Work on Grammaticalization and Constructionalization in Directions for Historical Linguistics  Elizabeth Closs Traugott 7 Historical Linguistics in the 50 Years Since Weinreich, Labov, and Herzog (1968)  Brian D. Joseph Index

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Hans C. Boas, Ph.D. (2000), The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is the Raymond Dickson, Alton C. Allen, and Dillon Anderson Centennial Professor in the Departments of Germanic Studies and Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on syntax, semantics, computational lexicography, language variation, language contact, and language documentation. Marc Pierce, Ph.D. (2002), University of Michigan, is Associate Professor of Germanic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. His main research interests are historical linguistics, the history of linguistics, Germanic linguistics, language contact, and phonology.

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