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
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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
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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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An Excellant Overview of the State of the Art,
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The 25 chapters in this anthology provide a comprehensive view of the state of the art in historical linguistics. The topics covered include the methods for establishing linguistic relationships and reconstructing linguistic history, the types and mechanisms of phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic change, and the reasons for language change, ranging from phonetics to language contact. The authors are leading figures in the field.My only criticism is that a few topics have been omitted that might usefully have been included. One is the use of historical linguistics in the study of prehistory. Another is how historical linguists establish the properties of languages in the past, e.g. the interpretation of texts, decipherment, and the various sorts of evidence used to determine pronounciation. A third is an overview of the current status of classification of the world's languages. The articles in this book may serve both as reviews for professional linguists and as educational material for students, scholars in related fields, and to varying degrees, depending on how technical the area is, for interested lay people.
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a customer may not like this book but it's wrong to try and make people think that the authors aren't doing their jobs. i've met brian joseph and he definitely knows what he's talking about. go and purchase the most popular historical linguistics book on amazon (lyle campbell)and see who he thanks in the beginning. there's a difference between giving a book a bad review and slander. the book is actually put together pretty well. if you're not sure what book to choose, go to a decent library and browse for a bit first.
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Let's keep this nice and short."Language Change and Linguistics Old, yes (1960) but Hoenigswald does not Clear, concise, thorough. Five stars, Last but not least, you can pick up a
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In this introduction to the entire present volume - a collection of chapters by scholars with expertise in subareas of historical linguistics that together serve to define the field - we seek to accomplish three goals. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old English, Middle English, New York, Pacific Rim, Modern Greek, Ancient Greek, American English, Martha's Vineyard, United States, North America, Brian Joseph, Classical Greek, New Caledonian, Northern Cities, Old High German, World War, Constant Rate Effect, High Low, Classical Latin, Great Vowel Shift, New Guinea, Southeast Asia, Vulgar Latin, Early English Text Society, Elizabeth Ali New!
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In this introduction to the entire present volume - a collection of chapters by scholars with expertise in subareas of historical linguistics that together serve to define the field - we seek to accomplish three goals. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old English, Middle English, New York, Pacific Rim, Modern Greek, Ancient Greek, American English, Martha's Vineyard, United States, North America, Brian Joseph, Classical Greek, New Caledonian, Northern Cities, Old High German, World War, Constant Rate Effect, High Low, Classical Latin, Great Vowel Shift, New Guinea, Southeast Asia, Vulgar Latin, Early English Text Society, Elizabeth Ali New!
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- Social Networks And Historical Sociolinguistics: Studies In Morphosyntactic Variation In The Paston Letters (1421-1503) (Topics in English Linguistics) by Alexander Bergs on 5 pages
- Grammatikalisierung im Deutschen (Linguistik: Impulse & Tendenzen) (German Edition) by Torsten Leuschner on 4 pages
- Language Classification by Numbers by April McMahon in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Universal Grammar in the Reconstruction of Ancient Languages (Studies in Generative Grammar) by Katalin E. Kiss on page 292
- The Handbook of Japanese Linguistics (Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics) by Natsuko Tsujimura in Front Matter
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