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The Handbook of Historical Linguistics provides a detailed account of the numerous issues, methods, and results that characterize current work in historical linguistics, the area of linguistics most directly concerned with language change as well as past language states.
• Contains an extensive introduction that places the study of historical linguistics in its proper context within linguistics and the historical sciences in general
• Covers the methodology of historical linguistics and presents sophisticated overviews of the principles governing phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic change
• Includes contributions from the leading specialists in the field
Author(s): Brian D. Joseph (Editor); Richard D. Janda (Editor)
Series: Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Year: 2003
Language: English
Commentary: True PDF
Pages: 881
Tags: historical linguistics
The Handbook of Historical Linguistics
Contents
List of Contributors
Preface
Part I Introduction
On Language, Change, and Language Change – Or, Of History, Linguistics, and Historical Linguistics
Part II Methods for Studying Language Change
1 The Comparative Method
2 On the Limits of the Comparative Method
3 Internal Reconstruction
4 How to Show Languages are Related: Methods for Distant Genetic Relationship
5 Diversity and Stability in Language
Part III Phonological Change
6 The Phonological Basis of Sound Change
7 Neogrammarian Sound Change
8 Variationist Approaches to Phonological Change
9 “Phonologization” as the Start of Dephoneticization – Or, On Sound Change and its Aftermath: Of Extension, Generalization, Lexicalization, and Morphologization
Part IV Morphological and Lexical Change
10 Analogy: The Warp and Woof of Cognition
11 Analogical Change
12 Naturalness and Morphological Change
13 Morphologization from Syntax
Part V Syntactic Change
14 Grammatical Approaches to Syntactic Change
15 Variationist Approaches to Syntactic Change
16 Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on Syntactic Change
17 Functional Perspectives on Syntactic Change
Part VI Pragmatico-Semantic Change
18 Grammaticalization
19 Mechanisms of Change in Grammaticization: The Role of Frequency
20 Constructions in Grammaticalization
21 An Approach to Semantic Change
Part VII Explaining Linguistic Change
22 Phonetics and Historical Phonology
23 Contact as a Source of Language Change
24 Dialectology and Linguistic Diffusion
25 Psycholinguistic Perspectives on Language Change
Bibliography
Subject Index
Name Index
Language Index
