Principles of Historical Linguistics / / Hans Henrich Hock.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
• VerfasserIn: Hock, Hans Henrich,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 3rd, revised and updated edition
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 34
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XXVII, 1074 p.)

Historical linguistic theory and practice consist of a large number of chronological "layers" that have been accepted in the course of time and have acquired a permanence of their own. These range from neogrammarian conceptualizations of sound change, analogy, and borrowing, to prosodic, lexical, morphological, and syntactic change, and to present-day views on rule change and the effects of language contact. To get a full grasp of the principles of historical linguistics it is therefore necessary to understand the nature of each of these "layers". This book is a major revision and reorganization of the earlier editions and adds entirely new chapters on morphological change and lexical change, as well as a detailed discussion of linguistic palaeontology and ideological responses to the findings of historical linguistics to this landmark publication.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of illustrations -- List of maps -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Phonetics, transcription, terminology, abbreviations, glosses -- 3 Sound change: The regularity hypothesis -- 4 Sound change and its phonological implications -- 5 Types of sound change -- 6 Analogical and phonological change -- 7 Morphological change -- 8 Semantic change -- 9 Lexical borrowing -- 10 Lexical change -- 11 Syntactic change -- 12 Dialect interaction and dialectology -- 13 Language contact -- 14 Comparative linguistics and reconstruction -- 15 Linguistic change: Its nature and causes -- Notes -- References -- Index