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Historical Linguistics: An Introduction

By Lyle Campbell

Book information

Publisher
MIT Press
Year
2021
ISBN
0262542188, 9780262542180
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
173 MB (180881325 bytes)
Edition
4
Pages
560\518
Time added
2023-01-30 05:38:05

Description

The new edition of a comprehensive, accessible, and hands-on text in historical linguistics, revised and expanded, with new material and a new layout. This fourth edition features a larger page format and refreshed layout for a more reader-friendly experience; sixteen restructures and revised chapters and two new chapters on lexical change and semantic change and new coverage of quantitative and corpus research methods; practical exercises and a full bibliography. 1. Introduction 2. Sound Change 3. Loanwords (Borrowing) 4. Analogical Change 5. Lexical Change 6. Semantic Change 7. The Comparative Method and Linguistic Reconstruction 8. Internal Reconstruction 9. Language Classification and Models of Linguistic Change 10. Language Contact 11. Change in Syntax and Morphology 12. Explanation of Language Change 13. Distant Genetic Relationship 14. Writing and Philology: The Role of Written Records 15. Linguistic Prehistory 16. Quantitative Approaches to Historical Linguistics and Technical Tools

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