The comparative method reviewed : regularity and irregularity in language change / edited by Mark Durie, Malcolm Ross.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Durie, Mark, 1958- editor.

Ross, Malcolm, editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comparative linguistics.

Linguistic change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume draws together previously unpublished papers by linguists engaged in historical reconstruction. The main subject of the work is regularity and irregularity in the comparative method. A number of language families are represented.

Contents:

Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 The Comparative Method as Heuristic; 3 On Sound Change and Challenges to Regularity; 4 Footnotes to a History of Cantonese: Accounting for the Phonological Irregularlties; 5 Early Germanic Umlaut and Variable Rules; 6 The Neogrammarian Hypothesis and Pandemic Irregularity; 7 Regularity of Change in What?; 8 Contact-Induced Change and the Comparative Method: Cases from Papua New Guinea; 9 Reconstruction in Morphology; 10 Natural Tendencies of Semantic Change and the Search for Cognates; Subject Index; Language Index; Name Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1996.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-304) and indexes.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-772142-7

1-280-60555-3

0-19-536210-1

OCLC:

435813201