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9780340607589

Historical Linguistics

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  • ISBN13:

    9780340607589

  • ISBN10:

    0340607580

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1996-09-27
  • Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers
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Summary

This is a major introduction to historical linguistics, designed for students who have no background in historical linguistics but who have at least some knowledge of phonetics, phonology, and morphology. The author introduces all major types of change, consequences of change (dialect and language families), and methods in historical linguistics. Later chapters deal with sociolinguistic aspects of change, language contact, birth and death of languages, language and prehistory, and finally the issue of very remote relations.

Author Biography

R. L. Trask is Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Sussex.

Table of Contents

To the reader
To the teacher
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
List of figures
List of tables
The fact of language change
Lexical and semantic change
Phonological change I: change in pronunciation
Phonological change II: change in phonological systems
Morphological change
Syntactic change
Relatedness between languages
The comparative method
Internal reconstruction
The origin and propagation of change
Contact and the birth and death of languages
Language and prehistory
Very remote relations
Appendix: The Swadesh 200-word list
Bibliography
Index
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