The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics

NOTE EDITORE

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 perspectives methods and models language change interfaces regional summaries Each 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 freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9781315794013.ch28

SOMMARIO

Editors’ Introduction: Foundations of the new historical linguistics 1 Claire Bowern and Bethwyn Evans Part 1 Overviews Lineage and the constructive imagination: the birth of historical linguistics Roger Lass New perspectives in historical linguistics Paul Kiparsky Compositionality and change Nigel Vincent Part 2 Methods and models The Comparative Method Michael Weiss The Comparative Method: theoretical issues Mark Hale Trees, waves and linkages: models of language diversification Alexandre François Language phylogenies Michael Dunn Diachronic stability and typology Søren Wichmann Part 3 Language change The Sound change Andrew Garrett Phonological changes Silke Hamann Morphological change Stephen Anderson Morphological reconstruction Harold Koch Functional syntax and language change Zigmunt Frajzyngier Generative syntax and language change Elly van Gelderen Syntax and Syntactic reconstruction Jóhanna Barðdal Lexical semantic change and semantic reconstruction Matthias Urban Formal semantics/pragmatics and language change Ashwini Deo Discourse Alexandra D’Arcy Etymology Robert Mailhammer Sign languages in their historical context Susan D. Fischer Language acquisition and language change James N. Stanford Social dimensions of language change Lev Michael Language use, cognitive processes and linguistic change Joan Bybee and Clayton Beckner Contact-induced language change Christopher Lucas Language attrition and language change Jane Simpson Part 4 Interfaces 26 Demographic correlates of language diversitySimon J. Greenhill 27 Historical linguistics and socio-cultural reconstructionPatience Epps 28 Prehistory through language and archaeologyPaul Heggarty 29Historical linguistics and molecular anthropologyBrigitte 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 perspectivesSarah G. Thomason Index

AUTORE

Claire Bowern, Bethwyn Evans

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780415527897
• Collana: Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics
• Dimensioni: 9.75 x 6.75 in Ø 3.20 lb
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: 60 tables and 80 line drawings
• Pagine Arabe: 758
• Pagine Romane: xviii