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Historical linguistics : problems and perspectives / edited by Charles Jones.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Longman linguistics library
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historical linguistics.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 405 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Longman, 1993.
- Contents:
- Parameters of syntactic change / John Anderson
- Change and metatheory at the beginning of the 1990s : the primacy of history / Raimo Anttila
- Typology and reconstruction / Bernard Comrie
- On the phonetic basis of phonological change / Patricia Donegan
- Internally and externally motivated change in language contact settings / Nancy C. Dorian
- How real(ist) are reconstructions? / Roger Lass
- Why UG needs a learning theory : triggering verb movement / David Lightfoot
- On the social origins of language change / James Milroy
- The phonetics of sound change / John Ohala
- Nicaraguan English in history / Wayne O'Neil
- Language change as language improvement / Theo Vennemann
- Bidirectional diffusion in sound change / William S-Y Wang and Chinfa Lien.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0582060869
- 0582060850
- OCLC:
- 25675195
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