Overview

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 perspectives methods and models language change interfaces regional summaries Each 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. Chapter 28 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9781315794013.ch28

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Author:   Claire Bowern ,  Bethwyn Evans
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 17.40cm , Height: 4.60cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   1.520kg
ISBN:  

9780415527897

ISBN 10:   0415527899
Pages:   776
Publication Date:   27 June 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Replaced By:   9780367687977
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Editors’ Introduction: Foundations of the new historical linguistics 1 Claire Bowern and Bethwyn Evans Part 1 Overviews Lineage and the constructive imagination: the birth of historical linguistics Roger Lass New perspectives in historical linguistics Paul Kiparsky Compositionality and change Nigel Vincent Part 2 Methods and models The Comparative Method Michael Weiss The Comparative Method: theoretical issues Mark Hale Trees, waves and linkages: models of language diversification Alexandre François Language phylogenies Michael Dunn Diachronic stability and typology Søren Wichmann Part 3 Language change The Sound change Andrew Garrett Phonological changes Silke Hamann Morphological change Stephen Anderson Morphological reconstruction Harold Koch Functional syntax and language change Zigmunt Frajzyngier Generative syntax and language change Elly van Gelderen Syntax and Syntactic reconstruction Jóhanna Barðdal Lexical semantic change and semantic reconstruction Matthias Urban Formal semantics/pragmatics and language change Ashwini Deo Discourse Alexandra D’Arcy Etymology Robert Mailhammer Sign languages in their historical context Susan D. Fischer Language acquisition and language change James N. Stanford Social dimensions of language change Lev Michael Language use, cognitive processes and linguistic change Joan Bybee and Clayton Beckner Contact-induced language change Christopher Lucas Language attrition and language change Jane Simpson Part 4 Interfaces 26 Demographic correlates of language diversity Simon J. Greenhill 27 Historical linguistics and socio-cultural reconstruction Patience Epps 28 Prehistory through language and archaeology Paul Heggarty 29 Historical linguistics and molecular anthropology Brigitte Pakendorf Part 5 Regional Summaries 30 Indo-European: methods and problems Benjamin W. Fortson IV 31 The Austronesian language family Ritsuko Kikusawa 32 The Austro-Asiatic language phylum: a typology of phonological restructuring Paul Sidwell 33 Pama-Nyungan Luisa Miceli 34 The Pacific Northwest lingusitic area: historical perspectives Sarah G. Thomason Index

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'...this volume represents a great introduction for anyone interested in historical linguistics, as well as in other connected disciplines such as history, archaeology, and molecular anthropology. Also, it represents a good starting point for research and an impressive testimony to the progress achieved in historical linguistics.' - Monica Vasileanu, Romanian Academy, Institute of Linguistics, The LINGUIST List

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