The Handbook of Historical Linguistics First Edition by Brian Joseph, Richard Janda ISBN 978-1405127479 1405127473

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ISBN 10: 1405127473

ISBN 13: 978-1405127479

Author:  Brian D. Joseph, Richard Janda

The Handbook of Historical Linguistics provides a detailed account of the numerous issues, methods, and results that characterize current work in historical linguistics, the area of linguistics most directly concerned with language change as well as past language states.
Contains an extensive introduction that places the study of historical linguistics in its proper context within linguistics and the historical sciences in general
Covers the methodology of historical linguistics and presents sophisticated overviews of the principles governing phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic change
Includes contributions from the leading specialists in the field

Table of contents: 

Part I. Introduction
On Language, Change, and Language Change – Or, Of History, Linguistics, and Historical Linguistics – Richard D. Janda and Brian D. Joseph

Part II. Methods for Studying Language Change

1. The Comparative Method – Robert L. Rankin

2. On the Limits of the Comparative Method – S. P. Harrison

3. Internal Reconstruction – Don Ringe

4. How to Show Languages are Related: Methods for Distant Genetic Relationship – Lyle Campbell

5. Diversity and Stability in Language – Johanna Nichols

Part III. Phonological Change
6. The Phonological Basis of Sound Change – Paul Kiparsky
7. Neogrammarian Sound Change – Mark Hale
8. Variationist Approaches to Phonological Change – Gregory R. Guy
9. “Phonologization” as the Start of Dephoneticization – Or, On Sound Change and its Aftermath: Of Extension, Generalization, Lexicalization, and Morphologization – Richard D. Janda

Part IV. Morphological and Lexical Change
10. Analogy: The Warp and Woof of Cognition – Raimo Anttila
11. Analogical Change – Hans Henrich Hock
12. Naturalness and Morphological Change – Wolfgang U. Dressler
13. Morphologization from Syntax – Brian D. Joseph

Part V. Syntactic Change
14. Grammatical Approaches to Syntactic Change – David Lightfoot
15. Variationist Approaches to Syntactic Change – Susan Pintzuk
16. Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on Syntactic Change – Alice C. Harris
17. Functional Perspectives on Syntactic Change – Marianne Mithun

Part VI. Pragmatico-Semantic Change
18. Grammaticalization – Bernd Heine
19. Mechanisms of Change in Grammaticization: The Role of Frequency – Joan Bybee
20. Constructions in Grammaticalization – Elizabeth Closs Traugott
21. An Approach to Semantic Change – Benjamin W. Fortson IV

Part VII. Explaining Linguistic Change
22. Phonetics and Historical Phonology – John J. Ohala
23. Contact as a Source of Language Change – Sarah Grey Thomason
24. Dialectology and Linguistic Diffusion – Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes
25. Psycholinguistic Perspectives on Language Change – Jean Aitchison

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