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
• Έτος έκδοσης: 2011
• Έκδοση: Reprint 2011
• Γλώσσα: English
• Σειρά: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 48
• Φυσική περιγραφή: 1 online resource (564 p.) :; Num. figs.

Table of Contents

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 -- Morphological change -- Syntactic 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