Historical Linguistics, 1987
Title | Historical Linguistics, 1987 PDF eBook |
Author | Henning Andersen |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 589 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027235635 |
The volume contains 37 papers originally presented at the 8th International Conference on Historical Linguistics in Lille, France. The papers bring historical data to bear on issues in theoretical linguistics, both descriptive and diachronic or deal with specific questions in the history of individual languages. The theoretical issues range from phonology over morphology and syntax to the lexicon, as well as questions of historical dialectology, language contact, the theory of linguistic change, and problems of comparative reconstruction. The languages discussed are Finno-Ugric and Indo-European, most of the papers dealing with Germanic and Romance languages (especially English and French), but some being devoted to Greek, Celtic, Slavic, and Hittite.
Historical Linguistics 1987
Title | Historical Linguistics 1987 PDF eBook |
Author | Henning Andersen |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 590 |
Release | 1990-01-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027278326 |
The volume contains 37 papers originally presented at the 8th International Conference on Historical Linguistics in Lille, France. The papers bring historical data to bear on issues in theoretical linguistics, both descriptive and diachronic or deal with specific questions in the history of individual languages. The theoretical issues range from phonology over morphology and syntax to the lexicon, as well as questions of historical dialectology, language contact, the theory of linguistic change, and problems of comparative reconstruction. The languages discussed are Finno-Ugric and Indo-European, most of the papers dealing with Germanic and Romance languages (especially English and French), but some being devoted to Greek, Celtic, Slavic, and Hittite.
Historical Linguistics, 1987
Title | Historical Linguistics, 1987 PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 577 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9789027235633 |
Historical linguistics, 1987
Title | Historical linguistics, 1987 PDF eBook |
Author | International Conference on Historical Linguistics (8th : 1987 : Lille, France) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 577 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9789027235633 |
Historical Linguistics 1987
Title | Historical Linguistics 1987 PDF eBook |
Author | Henning Andersen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 577 |
Release | 1990 |
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Language Typology 1987
Title | Language Typology 1987 PDF eBook |
Author | Winfred P. Lehmann |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 1990-01-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027278318 |
These papers from the 1987 Typology Symposium — a follow-up to the 1985 meeting in Moscow — deal with the relevance of typology for historical linguistics. Its application in understanding phonological and grammatical change is examined for a variety of languages. Its relevance for application of the comparative method and the method of internal reconstruction is noted with reference to the glottalic theory and problems in other language families. Among the several approaches, alignment typology is especially examined, with languages defined as accusative, ergative or stative-active an approach to which linguists of the USSR have made important contributions in recent years.Among specific problems examined are tonogenesis in Na-Dene, the origin of the genitive in ergative languages, and relative pronouns of Indo-European languages in the context of the Eurasiatic hypothesis. Along with changes in other languages (like those of East and Southeast Asia), these problems are discussed in an effort to determine general and specific tendencies in language change, and to contribute towards the development of diachronic typology.
Historical Linguistics 1987
Title | Historical Linguistics 1987 PDF eBook |
Author | Henning Andersen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 577 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Historical linguistics |
ISBN |