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Historical linguistics: an introduction

By Lyle Campbell

Book information

Publisher
MIT Press
Year
1999
ISBN
0262531593, 9780262531597
LCC
P140 .C36 1999
Open Library ID
OL377537M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6456867 bytes)
Edition
1 Mit Pr
Pages
443\443
Orientation
no
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

Historical linguistics is the study of how and why language changes—both the methods of investigating language change and the theories designed to explain these changes. This highly accessible introductory text takes a hands-on, how-to approach, rather than just talking about the subject as many texts do. The book contains abundant examples both from familiar European languages, to make the topics accessible, and from a variety of non-European languages, to illustrate the depth and range of the concepts. The book also covers a number of essential topics neglected by most texts, including syntactic change, methods for investigating distant genetic relationship, linguistic prehistory, and grammaticalization.

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