The Routledge handbook of historical linguistics / / edited by Claire Bowern and Bethwyn Evans.
"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 vo...
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| Superior document: | Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York : : Routledge,, 2015. |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Routledge handbooks in linguistics.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (777 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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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