Historical Linguistics: An Introduction

✍ Scribed by Lyle Campbell

Publisher: MIT Press
Year: 2021
Tongue: English
Leaves: 518
Edition: 4
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction
Sound Change
Loanwords (Borrowing)
Analogical Change
Lexical Change
Semantic Change
The Comparative Method and Linguistic Reconstruction
Internal Reconstruction
Language Classification and Models of Linguistic Change
Language Contact
Change in Syntax and Morphology
Explanation of Language Change
Distant Genetic Relationship
Writing and Philology: The Role of Written Records
Linguistic Prehistory
Quantitative Approaches to Historical Linguistics and Technical Tools

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