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, taking as his background some of the major philosophical issues that arise from these considerations. The paradoxical conclusion is that our historiographical methods are often better than the data they have to work with.
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"This is a useful and engaging book, discussing and illustrating principles of historical linguistics primarily with Indo-European examples." Keith Slater, Notes on Linguistics
"...this is a very learned, logically reasoned and very valuable book--the work of an outstanding historical linguist who has extraordinarily wide-ranging interests and a formidable memory. It is enjoyable reading....this is a work of impressive scholarship..." James Milroy, Diachronica
"...the book contains much of interst to students of language change at all levels. His examples and demonstrations of method would be of great value to newcomers to the field and, indeed, any of us can admire such perfect elucidation." Canadian Journal of Linguistics
"...this is a very learned, logically reasoned and very valuable book--the work of an outstanding historical linguist who has extraordinarily wide-ranging interests and a formidable memory. It is enjoyable reading....this is a work of impressive scholarship..." James Milroy, Diachronica
"...the book contains much of interst to students of language change at all levels. His examples and demonstrations of method would be of great value to newcomers to the field and, indeed, any of us can admire such perfect elucidation." Canadian Journal of Linguistics
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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 here offers a critical survey of the foundations of the art of historical linguistics, and its interaction with its subject matter, language change, taking as his background some of the major philosophical issues which arise from these considerations. The paradoxical conclusion is that our historiographical methods are often better than the data they have to work with.
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purposeless variety, inflectional simplification, weak preterite, comparative reconstruction, weak grade, front rounded vowels, occasional spellings, internal reconstruction, phonetic correspondence, functional motivation, reconstructive techniques, vowel shift, voiceless fricatives, male nipples, historical linguistics, correspondence classes, synchronic structure Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old English, West Germanic, Middle English, Grimm's Law, North Germanic, Verner's Law, Old High German, South African English, Great Vowel Shift, Uniformity Principle, Clark Hall, United States, West Saxon, Low German, Modern Icelandic, New York, Southern Bantu, Cotton Tiberius, John Hart, Old Icelandic, Southern British English, Icelandic First Grammarian, Nigel Love New!
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purposeless variety, inflectional simplification, weak preterite, comparative reconstruction, weak grade, front rounded vowels, occasional spellings, internal reconstruction, phonetic correspondence, functional motivation, reconstructive techniques, vowel shift, voiceless fricatives, male nipples, historical linguistics, correspondence classes, synchronic structure Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old English, West Germanic, Middle English, Grimm's Law, North Germanic, Verner's Law, Old High German, South African English, Great Vowel Shift, Uniformity Principle, Clark Hall, United States, West Saxon, Low German, Modern Icelandic, New York, Southern Bantu, Cotton Tiberius, John Hart, Old Icelandic, Southern British English, Icelandic First Grammarian, Nigel Love New!
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