The new edition of a comprehensive, accessible, and hands-on text in historical linguistics, revised and expanded, with new material and a new layout.
This fourth edition features a larger page format and refreshed layout for a more reader-friendly experience; sixteen restructures and revised chapters and two new chapters on lexical change and semantic change and new coverage of quantitative and corpus research methods; practical exercises and a full bibliography.
Author(s): Lyle Campbell
Edition: 4
Publisher: MIT Press
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 560
1. Introduction
2. Sound Change
3. Loanwords (Borrowing)
4. Analogical Change
5. Lexical Change
6. Semantic Change
7. The Comparative Method and Linguistic Reconstruction
8. Internal Reconstruction
9. Language Classification and Models of Linguistic Change
10. Language Contact
11. Change in Syntax and Morphology
12. Explanation of Language Change
13. Distant Genetic Relationship
14. Writing and Philology: The Role of Written Records
15. Linguistic Prehistory
16. Quantitative Approaches to Historical Linguistics and Technical Tools
