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Language history : an introduction / Andrew L. Sihler.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sihler, Andrew L.
- Series:
- Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; Series IV, v. 191.
- Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; v. 191
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historical linguistics.
- Linguistic change.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 298 p. : ill.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, c2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This classroom-tested volume aspires to be a brief but technically and factually accurate exposition of linguistic description and history. Whether studied as prime subject or as background information, it should help students understand the assumptions and reasoning that underlie the contents of their handbooks and etymological dictionaries.This book should be a useful guide for anyone unfamiliar with (historical) linguistics who is studying the history of a language, and also for those who are enrolled in courses devoted to reading texts in old languages.
- Contents:
- LANGUAGE HISTORY AN INTRODUCTION
- Editorial page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- Table of contents
- A NOTE ON NOTATION
- ABBREVIATIONS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHANGES IN PRONUNCIATION
- ASSIMILATION
- DISSIMILATION
- ADDITION OF SEGMENTS
- LOSS OF SEGMENTS
- METATHESIS
- OTHER INTERACTIONS BETWEEN SEGMENTS
- CHANGES IN MANNER OF ARTICULATION
- SOUND LAWS
- MERGER
- PRIMARY SPLIT
- SECONDARY SPLIT
- EFFICIENT CAUSES OF PHONETIC CHANGE
- PATTERNLESS CHANGES
- ANALOGY
- LEVELING ANALOGY
- RECOMPOSITION
- CONTAMINATION
- PORTMANTEAU WORDS
- FOLK ETYMOLOGY
- MORPHOLOGICAL ANALOGY
- HYPERCORRECTION
- SEMANTIC CHANGE
- CHANGES IN THE NUMBER OF SEMANTIC FEATURES
- PEJORATION AND MELIORATION
- FOREGROUNDING OF CONNOTATIONS
- FIGURATIVE MEANINGS
- METAPHOR
- METONYMY
- CHANGES RESULTING FROM CHANGES IN THE STRUCTURE OF THE LANGUAGE, REINTERPRETATION OF AMBIGUITIES, AND CHANGES IN THE PHYSICAL OR SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT
- CALQUES
- THE ETYMOLOGICAL FALLACY
- RECONSTRUCTION
- THE COMPARATIVE METHOD
- RECONSTRUCTION OF FEATURES OF MORPHOLOGY, SEMANTICS, AND SYNTAX
- INTERNAL RECONSTRUCTION
- THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PHONOLOGICAL RESTRUCTURING (26 - 9) AND INTERNAL RECONSTRUCTION
- EXTERNAL ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE CHANGE
- LANGUAGE AND DIALECT
- DIFFERENTIATION OF LANGUAGES
- LANGUAGES IN CONTACT
- WRITTEN RECORDS
- THE INTERPRETATION OF WRITTEN RECORDS
- TRANSLITERATION
- BORROWING
- MULTIPLE VALUES OF SYMBOLS
- CHRONOLOGY
- BORROWING THE SYMBOLS
- COMPARATIVE EVIDENCE
- TYPOLOGY, PARALLELISM
- STATEMENTS BY CONTEMPORANEOUS AUTHORITIES
- POETRY
- FULL DRESS EXAMPLE: LATIN C AND G
- APPENDIX : PHONETICS
- THE MECHANISMS OF SPEECH AND THE CLASSIFICATION OF SPEECH SOUNDS
- CONSONANTALS
- MANNER OF ARTICULATION
- POINT OF ARTICULATION
- THE BASIC FRAMEWORK
- VOCALICS.
- NATURAL CLASSES
- SYSTEMS OF PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION
- GLOSSARY
- GLOSSARY OF LINGUISTIC TERMSIN GERMAN
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- SUBJECT INDEX
- INDEX OF LANGUAGES CITED
- A NOTE ON THE TYPE
- The series Current Issues in Linguistic Theory.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 90-272-8546-2
- 9786613047083
- 1-283-04708-X
- OCLC:
- 712015665
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