Language History, Language Change, and Language Relationship : : An Introduction to Historical and Comparative Linguistics / / Hans Henrich Hock, Brian D. Joseph.

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• VerfasserIn: Hock, Hans Henrich,; Joseph, Brian D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: 2nd rev. ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 218
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (588 p.)

Why does language change? Why can we speak to and understand our parents but have trouble reading Shakespeare? Why is Chaucer's English of the fourteenth century so different from Modern English of the late twentieth century that the two are essentially different languages? Why are Americans an...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. The discovery of Indo-European
• Chapter 3. Writing: Its history and its decipherment
• Chapter 4. Sound change
• Chapter 5. Analogy and change in word structure
• Chapter 6. Syntactic change
• Chapter 7. Semantic change
• Chapter 8. Lexical borrowing
• Chapter 9. Lexical change and etymology: The study of words
• Chapter 10. Language, dialect, and standard
• Chapter 11. Dialect geography and dialectology
• Chapter 12. Language spread, link languages, and bilingualism
• Chapter 13. Convergence: Dialectology beyond languageboundaries
• Chapter 14. Pidgins, creoles, and related forms of language
• Chapter 15. Language death
• Chapter 16. Comparative method: Establishing language relationship
• Chapter 17. Proto-World?: The question of long-distance genetic relationships
• Chapter 18. Historical linguistics, history, and prehistory: Linguistic paleontology and other applications of our methods
• Chapter notes and suggested readings
• Backmatter