The Handbook of Historical Linguistics

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The Handbook of Historical Linguistics provides a detailed account of the numerous issues, methods, and results that characterize current work in historical linguistics, the area of linguistics most directly concerned with language change as well as past language states.

In its introduction and 25 chapters, written by leading specialists in the field, this volume achieves two main goals. It covers the most important methods of historical linguistics including comparative reconstruction and internal reconstruction, reliable ways of determining language relatedness, and contemporary approaches to dialectological investigation. It also presents sophisticated overviews of the principles that emerge from the in-depth study of phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic change, including grammaticalization, and offers wide-ranging explorations of the major factors at work in the causation of change.

The book begins with an extensive and uniquely comprehensive introduction by the editors that places the study of historical linguistics in its proper context both within the field of linguistics itself and within the historical sciences more generally. The well-conceived and lucidly written articles in this volume, supplemented with an extensive bibliography and detailed indexes, make The Handbook of Historical Linguistics an indispensable resource for anyone with an interest in history and/or language.

Über den Autor

Brian D. Joseph is Professor of Linguistics and Kenneth E. Naylor Professor of South Slavic Linguistics at The Ohio State University. Within historical linguistics, his research focuses mainly on Indo-European languages. He has written and edited numerous books - including Language History, Language Change, and Language Relationship (with Hans H. Hock, 1996) and The Synchrony and Diachrony of the Balkan Infinitive (1983) - and has published over 160 articles. He became editor of the journal Language in 2002.

Richard D. Janda is Senior Lecturer and Coordinator for Undergraduate Education in the Department of Linguistics at The Ohio State University. A specialist in both Germanic and Romance linguistics, he has written widely not only on diachronic but also on synchronic issues in phonology, morphology, and morphosyntax, as well as on historical linguistics in general. His more than 70 publications focus on drawing broader implications from the application of theory to specific problems of structure, function, variation, and change in individual languages.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Contributors ix

Preface xi

Part I Introduction 1

On Language, Change, and Language Change - Or, Of History, Linguistics, and Historical Linguistics 3

Richard D. Janda and Brian D. Joseph

Part II Methods for Studying Language Change 181

1 The Comparative Method 183

Robert L. Rankin

2 On the Limits of the Comparative Method 213

S. P. Harrison

3 Internal Reconstruction 244

Don Ringe

4 How to Show Languages are Related: Methods for Distant Genetic Relationship 262

Lyle Campbell

5 Diversity and Stability in Language 283

Johanna Nichols

Part III Phonological Change 311

6 The Phonological Basis of Sound Change 313

Paul Kiparsky

7 Neogrammarian Sound Change 343

Mark Hale

8 Variationist Approaches to Phonological Change 369

Gregory R. Guy

9 "Phonologization" as the Start of Dephoneticization - Or, On Sound Change and its Aftermath: Of Extension, Generalization, Lexicalization, and Morphologization 401

Richard D. Janda

Part IV Morphological and Lexical Change 423

10 Analogy: The Warp and Woof of Cognition 425

Raimo Anttila

11 Analogical Change 441

Hans Henrich Hock

12 Naturalness and Morphological Change 461

Wolfgang U. Dressler

13 Morphologization from Syntax 472

Brian D. Joseph

Part V Syntactic Change 493

14 Grammatical Approaches to Syntactic Change 495

David Lightfoot

15 Variationist Approaches to Syntactic Change 509

Susan Pintzuk

16 Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on Syntactic Change 529

Alice C. Harris

17 Functional Perspectives on Syntactic Change 552

Marianne Mithun

Part Vi Pragmatico-semantic Change 573

18 Grammaticalization 575

Bernd Heine

19 Mechanisms of Change in Grammaticization: The Role of Frequency 602

Joan Bybee

20 Constructions in Grammaticalization 624

Elizabeth Closs Traugott

21 An Approach to Semantic Change 648

Benjamin W. Fortson iv

Part VII Explaining Linguistic Change 667

22 Phonetics and Historical Phonology 669

John J. Ohala

23 Contact as a Source of Language Change 687

Sarah Grey Thomason

24 Dialectology and Linguistic Diffusion 713

Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes

25 Psycholinguistic Perspectives on Language Change 736

Jean Aitchison

Bibliography 744

Subject Index 843

Name Index 856

Language Index 879

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2005
Genre:	Importe
Produktart:	Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik:	Sachliteratur
Thema:	Fremdsprachige Wörterbücher
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781405127479
ISBN-10:	1405127473
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Joseph Janda
Redaktion:	Joseph, Brian Janda, Richard
Hersteller:	Wiley
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	244 x 170 x 48 mm
Von/Mit:	Brian Joseph (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	14.01.2005
Gewicht:	1,526 kg

Artikel-ID: 132516507