The handbook of historical linguistics / edited by Brian D. Joseph and Richard D. Janda.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Joseph, Brian D.

Janda, Richard D.

Series:

Blackwell handbooks in linguistics.

Blackwell handbooks in linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historical linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (902 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Handbook of Historical Linguistics provides a detailed account of the numerous issues, methods, and results that characterize current work in historical linguistics, the area of linguistics most directly concerned with language change as well as past language states.Contains an extensive introduction that places the study of historical linguistics in its proper context within linguistics and the historical sciences in general Covers the methodology of historical linguistics and presents sophisticated overviews of the principles governing phonological, morphological,

Contents:

The Handbook of Historical Linguistics; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; Part I Introduction; On Language, Change, and Language Change - Or, Of History, Linguistics, and Historical Linguistics; Part II Methods for Studying Language Change; 1 The Comparative Method; 2 On the Limits of the Comparative Method; 3 Internal Reconstruction; 4 How to Show Languages are Related: Methods for Distant Genetic Relationship; 5 Diversity and Stability in Language; Part III Phonological Change; 6 The Phonological Basis of Sound Change; 7 Neogrammarian Sound Change

8 Variationist Approaches to Phonological Change9 "Phonologization" as the Start of Dephoneticization - Or, On Sound Change and its Aftermath: Of Extension, Generalization, Lexicalization, and Morphologization; Part IV Morphological and Lexical Change; 10 Analogy: The Warp and Woof of Cognition; 11 Analogical Change; 12 Naturalness and Morphological Change; 13 Morphologization from Syntax; Part V Syntactic Change; 14 Grammatical Approaches to Syntactic Change; 15 Variationist Approaches to Syntactic Change; 16 Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on Syntactic Change

17 Functional Perspectives on Syntactic ChangePart VI Pragmatico-Semantic Change; 18 Grammaticalization; 19 Mechanisms of Change in Grammaticization: The Role of Frequency; 20 Constructions in Grammaticalization; 21 An Approach to Semantic Change; Part VII Explaining Linguistic Change; 22 Phonetics and Historical Phonology; 23 Contact as a Source of Language Change; 24 Dialectology and Linguistic Diffusion; 25 Psycholinguistic Perspectives on Language Change; Bibliography; Subject Index; Name Index; Language Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [744]-842) and indexes.

ISBN:

9780470756393

047075639X

9780470756331

0470756330

9781780341842

1780341849

9781280284267

1280284269

9781405122962

140512296X

OCLC:

214282161