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9780340662953

Historical Linguistics

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  • ISBN13:

    9780340662953

  • ISBN10:

    0340662956

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


To the reader


To the teacher


Acknowledgements


List of Abbreviations


List of figures


List of tables


1. The fact of language change


2. Lexical and semantic change

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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