Anthony Fox

Linguistic Reconstruction

An Introduction to Theory and Method

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Recent textbooks in historical linguistics concentrate more on the theory of language change than on methods of linguistic reconstruction. This book redresses the balance, providing a general guide to methods and theories of linguistic of languages. It describes both traditional and newer, less well established techniques.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 551g
• ISBN-13: 9780198700012
• ISBN-10: 0198700016
• Artikelnr.: 22253005

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
2: Background in Comparitive Method
3: The Comparitive Method in the Twentieth Century
4: The Comparitive Method: Basic Procedures
5: Comparitive Reconstruction of Morphology, Syntax, and the Lexicon
6: Issues in Comparative Reconstruction
7: Internal Reconstruction
8: Applications and Implications of Internal Reconstruction
9: Reconstructing Language Relationships
10: Language Typology and Linguistic Reconstruction
11: Quantative Methods in Reconstruction
12: Reconstruction, Culture and Society
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