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An introduction to historical linguistics / Terry Crowley and Claire Bowern.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Crowley, Terry.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historical linguistics.
- Physical Description:
- xxxii, 376 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Fourth edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Contents:
- Types of sound change
- Expressing sound changes
- Phonetic and phonemic change
- The comparative method (1) : procedures
- Determining relatedness
- Internal reconstruction
- Computational and statistical methods
- The comparative method (2) : history and challenges
- Morphological change
- Semantic and lexical change
- Syntactic change
- Observing language change
- Language contact
- Cultural reconstruction.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780195365542
- 0195365542
- OCLC:
- 273822411
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