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The handbook of historical linguistics / edited by Brian D. Joseph and Richard D. Janda.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Blackwell handbooks in linguistics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historical linguistics.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 881 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2003.
- Summary:
- The Handbook of Historical Linguistics provides a thorough, up-to-date account of the numerous issues, methods, and results that characterize the discipline. Twenty-eight chapters, written by leading specialists in the field, cover the methodologies of historical linguistics, internal reconstruction, the comparative method, the bases of language relatedness, and dialectological investigation. The Handbook also presents sophisticated overviews of the principles governing phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic change, as well as grammaticalization and treatments of the major factors in the causation of change.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [744]-842) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0631195718
- OCLC:
- 49894720
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