Historical Linguistics and Language Change - Couverture souple

Lass, Roger

 
9780521459242: Historical Linguistics and Language Change
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0521459249 ISBN 13 : 9780521459242
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1997

Synopsis

Language change happens in the spatio-temporal world. Historical linguistics is the craft linguists exercise upon its results, in order to tell coherent stories about it. In a series of linked essays Roger Lass offers a critical survey of the foundations of the art of historical linguistics, and its interaction with its subject matter, language change. He takes as his background some of the major philosophical issues which arise from these considerations, such as ontology, realism and conventionalism, and explanation. Along the way he poses such questions as: where does our data come from; how trustworthy is it; what is the empirical basis for the reconstructive techniques we standardly take as yielding facts; and how much does the historian create data rather than receiving it? The paradoxical conclusion is that our historiographical methods are often better than the data they have to work with.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Language change happens in the spatio-temporal world. Historical linguistics is the craft linguists exercise upon its results, in order to tell coherent stories about it. In a series of linked essays Roger Lass offers a critical survey of the foundations of the art of historical linguistics, and its interaction with its subject matter, language change. He takes as his background some of the major philosophical issues which arise from these considerations, such as ontology, realism and conventionalism, and explanation. Along the way he poses such questions as: where does our data come from; how trustworthy is it; what is the empirical basis for the reconstructive techniques we standardly take as yielding facts; and how much does the historian create data rather than receiving it? The paradoxical conclusion is that our historiographical methods are often better than the data they have to work with.

Revue de presse

'This is a very interesting book, and the reader who is familiar with the basics of historical linguistics will find it inspiring and stimulating.' Moderna Sprak

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
1997
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521459249
ISBN 13 
9780521459242
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
448
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780521453080: Historical Linguistics and Language Change

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0521453089 ISBN 13 :  9780521453080
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1997
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