The Handbook Of Historical Linguistics - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 1405127473 ISBN 13 : 9781405127479

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell, 2004

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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.

In its introduction and 25 chapters, written by leading specialists in the field, this volume achieves two main goals. It covers the most important methods of historical linguistics including comparative reconstruction and internal reconstruction, reliable ways of determining language relatedness, and contemporary approaches to dialectological investigation. It also presents sophisticated overviews of the principles that emerge from the in–depth study of phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic change, including grammaticalization, and offers wide–ranging explorations of the major factors at work in the causation of change.

The book begins with an extensive and uniquely comprehensive introduction by the editors that places the study of historical linguistics in its proper context both within the field of linguistics itself and within the historical sciences more generally. The well–conceived and lucidly written articles in this volume, supplemented with an extensive bibliography and detailed indexes, make The Handbook of Historical Linguistics an indispensable resource for anyone with an interest in history and/or language.

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" The Handbook of Historical Linguistics proves an atypical handbook in several positive senses, beginning with the introduction′s bold tackling of foundational issues. While many chapters offer the expected compact overviews of familiar topics, others are, we hope, destined to become influential as needed lucid statements on particular issues... and thought–provoking, original contributions... The value of The Handbook of Historical Linguistics is multifaceted; its influence will be far–reaching and long–lasting." Journal of Linguistics

The editors have assembled a remarkable array of contributors who can introduce readers to the professional standards of scholarship and scientific reasoning that characterize the field. William Labov, University of Pennsylvania

An authoritative collection, by a stellar group of contributors, that presents historical linguistics as it really is a multifaceted study that is both a branch of general linguistics and a field in its own right. No other survey covers the territory half so well. Jay Jasanoff, Harvard University

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Wiley-Blackwell
• Date d'édition: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1405127473
• ISBN 13: 9781405127479
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 904