Principles of Historical Linguistics /

Principles of Historical Linguistics / / Hans Henrich Hock.

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Historical linguistic theory and practice contains a great number of different 'layers' which have been accepted in the course of time and have acquired a permanency of their own. These range from neogrammarian conceptualizations of sound change and analogy to present-day ideas on rule cha...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics - <1990
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Hock, Hans Henrich,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2020]
©1986
Year of Publication:2020
Edition:2nd printing. Reprint 2019
Language:English
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 34
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XIII, 744 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Maps and charts
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Phonetics, transcription, terminology, abbreviations
  • 3. Sound change: The regularity hypothesis
  • 4. Sound change and phonological contrast
  • 5. Sound change: Assimilation, weakening, loss
  • 6. Sound change: Dissimilation, haplology, metathesis
  • 7. Sound change: Epenthesis, elimination of hiatus, other changes
  • 8. Sound change: Structure and function
  • 9. Analogy: General discussion and typology
  • 10. Analogy: Tendencies of analogical change
  • 11. Analogy and generative grammar
  • 12. Semantic change
  • 13. Syntactic change
  • 14. Linguistic contact: Lexical borrowing
  • 15. Linguistic contact: Dialectology
  • 16. Linguistic contact: Koinés, convergence, pidgins, creoles, language death
  • 17. Internal reconstruction
  • 18. Comparative method: Establishing linguistic relationship
  • 19. Comparative reconstruction
  • 20. Linguistic change: Its nature and causes
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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