Linguistic Change and Reconstruction Methodology
Title | Linguistic Change and Reconstruction Methodology PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Baldi |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 768 |
Release | 2011-06-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 311088609X |
TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.
Patterns of Change - Change of Patterns
Title | Patterns of Change - Change of Patterns PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Baldi |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2013-02-06 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110871890 |
Linguistic Reconstruction
Title | Linguistic Reconstruction PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Fox |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 394 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780198700012 |
"Anthony Fox's new textbook is primarily for students with an elementary knowledge of general linguistics who need an up-to-date introduction to historical linguistics, particularly to new developments in the theory and practice of linguistic reconstruction." -- Back cover.
Principles and Methods for Historical Linguistics
Title | Principles and Methods for Historical Linguistics PDF eBook |
Author | Robert J. Jeffers |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 223 |
Release | 1982-09-14 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0262600110 |
Intended for use in advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate courses, this text presents a wide survey of methodological procedures and theoretical positions.
The Comparative Method Reviewed
Title | The Comparative Method Reviewed PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Durie |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 1996-05-16 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0195066073 |
Historical reconstruction of languages relies on the comparative method, which itself depends on the notion of the regularity of change. The regularity of sound change is the famous Neogrammarian Hypothesis: "sound change takes place according to laws that admit no exception." The comparative method, however, is not restricted to the consideration of sound change, and neither is the assumption of regularity. Syntactic, morphological, and semantic change are all amenable in varying degrees, to comparative reconstruction, and each type of change is constrained in ways that enable the researcher to distinguish between regular and more irregular changes.This volume draws together studies by scholars engaged in historical reconstruction, all focussing on the subject of regularity and irregularity in the comparative method. A wide range of languages are represented, including Chinese, Germanic, and Austronesian.
The Virtual Linguistics Campus
Title | The Virtual Linguistics Campus PDF eBook |
Author | Jürgen Handke, Peter Franke |
Publisher | Waxmann Verlag |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Internet in education |
ISBN | 383096689X |
Variation and Reconstruction
Title | Variation and Reconstruction PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas D. Cravens |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 2006-04-05 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 902728525X |
The relation of language variation to reconstructed languages and to the methodology of reconstruction has long been neglected. The articles in the present volume consider this relationship from a number of different angles, with a number of different focuses. Several of the papers discuss evidence from Germanic, either Proto-Germanic (Joseph, Schwink), or daughter languages such as Dutch (Goss & Howell), Afrikaans (Roberge), Newcastle English (Milroy), and a Wisconsin German dialect (Geiger & Salmons). Other papers look at Italian (Cravens), Spanish (Harris-Northall), and the non-Indo-European languages or families Aramaic (Miller), and Proto-Hmong-Mien (Ratliff), and the Southeast Asian languages Phan Rang Cham and Tsat (Thurgood). In doing so they bring together a number of interconnected issues which are of current concern in comparative and historical linguistics.