An accessible introduction to historical linguistics, this work contains many examples and problem sets/exercises to which the students can apply the principles and procedures outlined in each chapter. It deals with essential areas of historical linguistics: grammaticalization, sociolinguistic treatment of linguistic change, remote genetic relationship; areal linguistics and linguistic prehistory.
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
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Höhe: 234 mm
Breite: 156 mm
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978-0-7486-1114-0 (9780748611140)
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Professor of LinguisticsUniversity of Hawai'i at Manoa
Sound change; borrowing; analogical change; the comparative method; linguistic classification and subgrouping; models of change; internal reconstruction; syntactic change; semantic change; explaining linguistic change; areal linguistics; evaluating proposals of remote relationship; philology and historical linguistics; linguistic prehistory. Appendices: object lessons from the history of historical linguistics; Indo-European demystified.
