Research Guide on Language Change /

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

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (564 p.) :; Num. figs.
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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

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