The Routledge handbook of historical linguistics / / edited by Claire Bowern and Bethwyn Evans.

• Superior document: Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics
• TeilnehmendeR: Bowern, Claire, 1977-; Evans, Bethwyn.
• Place / Publishing House: New York : : Routledge,, 2015.
• Year of Publication: 2014; 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge handbooks in linguistics.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (777 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

"The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics provides a survey of the field covering the methods which underpin current work; models of language change; and the importance of historical linguistics for other subfields of linguistics and other disciplines. Divided into five sections, the volume encompass a wide range of approaches and addresses issues in the following areas: historical perspectivesmethods and modelslanguage changeinterfacesregional summariesEach of the thirty-two chapters is written by a specialist in the field and provides: a introduction to the subject; an analysis of the relationship between the diachronic and synchronic study of the topic; an overview of the main current and critical trends; and examples from primary data. The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics is essential reading for researchers and postgraduate students working in this area"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Editors' acknowledgements; Editors' introduction: foundations of the new historical linguistics; Part I Overviews; 1 Lineage and the constructive imagination: the birth of historical linguistics; 2 New perspectives in historical linguistics; 3 Compositionality and change; Part II Methods and models; 4 The Comparative Method; 5 The Comparative Method: theoretical issues; 6 Trees, waves and linkages: models of language diversification; 7 Language phylogenies

8 Diachronic stability and typologyPart III Language change; 9 Sound change; 10 Phonological changes; 11 Morphological change; 12 Morphological reconstruction; 13 Functional syntax and language change; 14 Generative syntax and language change; 15 Syntax and syntactic reconstruction; 16 Lexical semantic change and semantic reconstruction; 17 Formal semantics/pragmatics and language change; 18 Discourse; 19 Etymology; 20 Sign languages in their historical context; 21 Language acquisition and language change; 22 Social dimensions of language change

23 Language use, cognitive processes and linguistic change24 Contact-induced language change; 25 Language attrition and language change; Part IV Interfaces; 26 Demographic correlates of language diversity; 27 Historical linguistics and socio-cultural reconstruction; 28 Prehistory through language and archaeology; 29 Historical linguistics and molecular anthropology; Part V Regional summaries; 30 Indo-European: methods and problems; 31 The Austronesian language family; 32 The Austroasiatic language phylum: a typology of phonological restructuring; 33 Pama-Nyungan

34 The Pacific Northwest linguistic area: historical perspectivesIndex