The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Bowern, Claire; Evans, Bethwyn

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics provides a survey of the field covering the methods which underpin current work; models of language change; and the importance of historical linguistics for other subfields of linguistics and other disciplines. Divided into five sections, the volume encompass a wide range of approaches and addresses issues in the following areas: historical perspectivesmethods and modelslanguage changeinterfacesregional summariesEach of the thirty-two chapters is written by a specialist in the field and provides: a introduction to the subject; an analysis of the relationship between the diachronic and synchronic study of the topic; an overview of the main current and critical trends; and examples from primary data. The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics is essential reading for researchers and postgraduate students working in this area.Chapter 28 of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access at www.tandfebooks.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 776
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317743231
• Artikelnr.: 41213985

Autorenporträt

Claire Bowern, Bethwyn Evans

Inhaltsangabe

Editors' Introduction: Foundations of the new historical linguistics

1 Claire Bowern and Bethwyn Evans



Part 1 Overviews

1. Lineage and the constructive imagination: the birth of historical linguistics


Roger Lass


2. New perspectives in historical linguistics


Paul Kiparsky


3. Compositionality and change


Nigel Vincent



Part 2 Methods and models




4. The Comparative Method


Michael Weiss


5. The Comparative Method: theoretical issues


Mark Hale


6. Trees, waves and linkages: models of language diversification


Alexandre François


7. Language phylogenies


Michael Dunn


8. Diachronic stability and typology


Søren Wichmann



Part 3 Language change




9. The Sound change


Andrew Garrett


10. Phonological changes


Silke Hamann


11. Morphological change


Stephen Anderson


12. Morphological reconstruction


Harold Koch


13. Functional syntax and language change


Zigmunt Frajzyngier


14. Generative syntax and language change


Elly van Gelderen


15. Syntax and Syntactic reconstruction


Jóhanna Barðdal


16. Lexical semantic change and semantic reconstruction


Matthias Urban


17. Formal semantics/pragmatics and language change


Ashwini Deo


18. Discourse


Alexandra D'Arcy


19. Etymology


Robert Mailhammer


20. Sign languages in their historical context


Susan D. Fischer


21. Language acquisition and language change


James N. Stanford


22. Social dimensions of language change


Lev Michael


23. Language use, cognitive processes and linguistic change


Joan Bybee and Clayton Beckner


24. Contact-induced language change


Christopher Lucas


25. Language attrition and language change

Jane Simpson



Part 4 Interfaces



26 Demographic correlates of language diversity
Simon J. Greenhill

27 Historical linguistics and socio-cultural reconstruction
Patience Epps

28 Prehistory through language and archaeology
Paul Heggarty

29 Historical linguistics and molecular anthropology
Brigitte Pakendorf



Part 5 Regional Summaries

30 Indo-European: methods and problems

Benjamin W. Fortson IV

31 The Austronesian language family

Ritsuko Kikusawa

32 The Austro-Asiatic language phylum: a typology of phonological restructuring

Paul Sidwell

33 Pama-Nyungan

Luisa Miceli

34 The Pacific Northwest lingusitic area: historical perspectives

Sarah G. Thomason

Index

Rezensionen

'...this volume represents a great introduction for anyone interested in historical linguistics, as well as in other connected disciplines such as history, archaeology, and molecular anthropology. Also, it represents a good starting point for research and an impressive testimony to the progress achieved in historical linguistics.' - Monica Vasileanu, Romanian Academy, Institute of Linguistics, The LINGUIST List

'...this volume represents a great introduction for anyone interested in historical linguistics, as well as in other connected disciplines such as history, archaeology, and molecular anthropology. Also, it represents a good starting point for research and an impressive testimony to the progress achieved in historical linguistics.' - Monica Vasileanu, Romanian Academy, Institute of Linguistics, The LINGUIST List