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Beschreibung
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 perspectives

methods and models

language change

interfaces

regional summaries

Each 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.
Chapter 28 of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access at [...] It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.
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 perspectives

methods and models

language change

interfaces

regional summaries

Each 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.
Chapter 28 of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access at [...] It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.
Über den Autor
Claire Bowern, Bethwyn Evans
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editors' Introduction: Foundations of the new historical linguistics

1 Claire Bowern and Bethwyn Evans

Part 1 Overviews

  1. Lineage and the constructive imagination: the birth of historical linguistics
  2. Roger Lass

  3. New perspectives in historical linguistics
  4. Paul Kiparsky

  5. Compositionality and change
  6. Nigel Vincent

    Part 2 Methods and models

  7. The Comparative Method
  8. Michael Weiss

  9. The Comparative Method: theoretical issues
  10. Mark Hale

  11. Trees, waves and linkages: models of language diversification
  12. Alexandre François

  13. Language phylogenies
  14. Michael Dunn

  15. Diachronic stability and typology
  16. Søren Wichmann

    Part 3 Language change

  17. The Sound change
  18. Andrew Garrett

  19. Phonological changes
  20. Silke Hamann

  21. Morphological change
  22. Stephen Anderson

  23. Morphological reconstruction
  24. Harold Koch

  25. Functional syntax and language change
  26. Zigmunt Frajzyngier

  27. Generative syntax and language change
  28. Elly van Gelderen

  29. Syntax and Syntactic reconstruction
  30. Jóhanna Barðdal

  31. Lexical semantic change and semantic reconstruction
  32. Matthias Urban

  33. Formal semantics/pragmatics and language change
  34. Ashwini Deo

  35. Discourse
  36. Alexandra D'Arcy

  37. Etymology
  38. Robert Mailhammer

  39. Sign languages in their historical context
  40. Susan D. Fischer

  41. Language acquisition and language change
  42. James N. Stanford

  43. Social dimensions of language change
  44. Lev Michael

  45. Language use, cognitive processes and linguistic change
  46. Joan Bybee and Clayton Beckner

  47. Contact-induced language change
  48. Christopher Lucas

  49. Language attrition and language change

Jane Simpson

Part 4 Interfaces

26 Demographic correlates of language diversity
Simon J. Greenhill

27 Historical linguistics and socio-cultural reconstruction
Patience Epps

28 Prehistory through language and archaeology
Paul Heggarty

29 Historical linguistics and molecular anthropology
Brigitte Pakendorf

Part 5 Regional Summaries

30 Indo-European: methods and problems

Benjamin W. Fortson IV

31 The Austronesian language family

Ritsuko Kikusawa

32 The Austro-Asiatic language phylum: a typology of phonological restructuring

Paul Sidwell

33 Pama-Nyungan

Luisa Miceli

34 The Pacific Northwest lingusitic area: historical perspectives

Sarah G. Thomason

Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Allg. & vergl. Sprachwissenschaft, Importe
Rubrik: Sprachwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780367250294
ISBN-10: 0367250292
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion: Bowern, Claire
Evans, Bethwyn
Hersteller: Routledge
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 246 x 174 x 41 mm
Von/Mit: Claire Bowern (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 26.02.2020
Gewicht: 1,358 kg
Artikel-ID: 128407806