Don Ringe, Joseph F. Eska

Historical Linguistics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This innovative textbook demonstrates the mutual relevance of historical linguistics and contemporary linguistics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 747g
• ISBN-13: 9780521583329
• ISBN-10: 0521583322
• Artikelnr.: 36955706

Autorenporträt

Don Ringe is Kahn Term Professor in Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The nature of human language and language variation
2. Language replication and language change
3. Language change in the speech community
4. Language contact as a source of change
5. Sound change
6. The evolution of phonological rules
7. Morphology
8. Morphological change
9. Syntactic change
10. Reconstruction
11. Beyond comparative reconstruction: subgrouping and 'long-distance' relationships
Appendix: recovering the pronunciation of dead languages: types of evidence.