Research Guide on Language Change / / ed. by Edgar C. Polomé.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Algeo, John,; Antonsen, Elmer H.,; Baldi, Philip,; Baugh, John,; Cable, Thomas,; Coetsem, Frans van,; Domingue, Nicole,; Drinka, Bridget,; Hancock, Ian,; Harms, Robert T.,; Hill, Archibald A.,; Hoenigswald, Henry M.,; Jankowsky, Kurt R.,; King, Robert D.,; Kyes, Robert,; Lehmann, Winfred P.,; Markey, Thomas L.,; McCormick, Susan,; McDavid, Raven I.,; Polomé, Edgar C.,; Rauch, Irmengard,; Rea, John A.,; Salmons, Joseph,; Smith, Carlota S.,; Southworth, Franklin C.,; Southworth, Franklin,; Trudgill, Peter,; Ureland, P. Sture,; Winter, Werner,; Zgusta, Ladislav,
• HerausgeberIn: Polomé, Edgar C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1990
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 48
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (564 p.) :; Num. figs.
• Other title: I-X --; I. Introduction --; Language change and the Saussurean dichotomy: Diachrony versus synchrony --; Linguistic reconstruction: The scope of historical and comparative linguistics --; II. Aspects of Language Change --; Synchronic manifestations of linguistic change --; Evidence of language change --; The context of language change --; Methods to Study Language Change --; Philology: Analysis of written records --; The chronology of phonological change --; Linguistic paleontology: Migration theory, prehistory, and archeology correlated with linguistic data --; Linguistic geography and language change --; Psycholinguistics: A research review --; Lexicostatistics --; Theoretical Models of Change --; The Neogrammarian hypothesis --; A structural view of sound-change --; The transformational-generative model --; Other Approaches --; Dialect geography --; Social stratification of language --; Contact and interference --; III. Types of Language Change --; Phonological Change --; Phonetic, phonemic, and phonotactic change --; Evidence --; Structuralist interpretation --; Synchronic rules and diachronic "laws": The Saussurean dichotomy reaffirmed --; Morphophonology --; Morphological change --; Syntactic change --; Lexical Change --; Onomasiological change: Sachen-change reflected by Wörter --; Semantic change --; Borrowing --; Etymology --; Change of Languages --; Language families and subgroupings, tree model and wave theory, and reconstruction of protolanguages --; The development of standard language (koine) and dialect: Language split and dialect merger --; Contact linguistics: Research on linguistic areas, strata, and interference in Europe --; Creolization and language change --; Bi- and multilingualism: Code-switching, interference and hybrids --; Subject Index --; Language Index --; Author Index --; 565-566
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110875379; 9783110636895
• ISSN: 1861-4302
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110875379
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Edgar C. Polomé.