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Language history, language change, and language relationship : an introduction to historical and comparative linguistics / by Hans Henrich Hock, Brian D. Joseph.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hock, Hans Henrich, 1938-
- Series:
- Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 218.
- Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs, 1861-4302 ; 218
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historical linguistics.
- Comparative linguistics.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 588 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- Second revised edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, [2009]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The discovery of Indo-European
- Writing: its history and its decipherment
- Sound change
- Analogy and change in word structure
- Syntactic change
- Semantic change
- Lexical borrowing
- Lexical change and etymology: the study of words
- Language, dialect, and standard
- Dialect geography and dialectology
- Language spread, link languages, and bilingualism
- Convergence: dialectology beyond language boundaries
- Pidgins, creoles, and related forms of language
- Language death
- Comparative method: establishing language relationship
- Proto-world?: the question of long-distance genetic relationships
- Historical linguistics, history, and prehistory: linguistic paleontology and other applications of our methods.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [535]-567) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9783110218428
- 3110218429
- 9783110214291
- 3110214296
- OCLC:
- 369309327
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