Terry Crowley, Claire Bowern

An Introduction to Historical Linguistics, 4th Edition

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The new edition of this popular introductory text on historical linguistics covers all areas of language change, with a focus on Australia and the Pacific. Topics include sound change, the comparative method, cultural reconstruction and morphological and syntactic change.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• 4th Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780195365542
• ISBN-10: 0195365542
• Artikelnr.: 29425922

Autorenporträt

Terry Crowley was Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Waikato in New Zealand. Claire Bowern is Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Yale University.

Inhaltsangabe

Tables, Figures, Maps, Preface, Phonetic Symbols, Language Maps
1.: Introduction
2.: Types of Sound Change
3.: Expressing Sound Changes
4.: Phonetic and Phonemic Changes
5.: The Comparative Method (1): Procedures
6.: Determining Relatedness
7.: Internal Reconstruction
8.: Computational and Statistical Methods
9.: The Comparative Method (2.) History and Challenges
10.: Morphological Change
11.: Semantic and Lexical Change
12.: Syntactic Change
13.: Observing Language Change
14.: Language Contact
15.: Cultural Reconstruction
Data Sets
Language Index
References
Endnotes
Index