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An entirely new follow-up volume providing a detailed account of numerous additional issues, methods, and results that characterize current work in historical linguistics.
This brand-new, second volume of The Handbook of Historical Linguistics is a complement to the well-established first volume first published in 2003. It includes extended content allowing uniquely comprehensive coverage of the study of language(s) over time. Though it adds fresh perspectives on several topics previously treated in the first volume, this Handbook focuses on extensions of diachronic linguistics beyond those key issues.
This Handbook provides readers with studies of language change whose perspectives range from comparisons of large open vs. small closed corpora, via creolistics and linguistic contact in general, to obsolescence and endangerment of languages. Written by leading scholars in their respective fields, new chapters are offered on matters such as the origin of language, evidence from language for reconstructing human prehistory, invocations of language present in studies of language past, benefits of linguistic fieldwork for historical investigation, ways in which not only biological evolution but also field biology can serve as heuristics for research into the rise and spread of linguistic innovations, and more. Moreover, it:
The Handbook of Historical Linguistics, Volume II is an ideal book for undergraduate and graduate students in linguistics, researchers and professional linguists, as well as all those interested in the history of particular languages and the history of language more generally.
Richard D. Janda is currently Visiting Scholar in French and Italian at Indiana University Bloomington, USA, but his teaching spans 11 universities in 9 US states. He is author or editor of over 75 publications, including The Handbook of Historical Linguistics (Wiley Blackwell, 2003).
Brian D. Joseph is Distinguished University Professor of Linguistics and The Kenneth E. Naylor Professor of South Slavic Linguistics at The Ohio State University, USA. He has written and edited numerous books and published over 280 articles. He served as editor of the journal Language from 2002 – 2009, and is currently co-editor of the Journal of Greek Linguistics.
Barbara S. Vance is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Associate Professor of French Linguistics at Indiana University Bloomington, USA. She is the author of Syntactic Change in Medieval French (1997) and is a specialist in the historical syntax of French and Occitan.
Introduction
01. Some Things Old, Some Renewed, Some on Borrowing – Here, Previewed RICHARD D. JANDA, BRIAN D. JOSEPH, AND BARBARA S. VANCE
Part I: Change within and across Core Components of Language
02. The Expanding Universe of the Study of Sound ChangeFRANS HINSKENS
03. Tonogenesis: Register Tones Tone RealignmentGRAHAM THURGOOD
04. Historical Morphology – Overview and UpdateBRIAN D. JOSEPH
05. Theory and Data in Historical SyntaxBARBARA VANCE
Part II: On the Variety of Methods and Foci Available for the Study of Language Change
6. Dialect Convergence and the Formation of New DialectsPETER TRUDGILL
7. Formal Syntax as a Phylogenetic MethodCRISTINA GUARDIANO, GIUSEPPE LANGOBARDI, GUIDO CORDONI, AND PAOLA CRISMA
8. Typological Approaches and Historical LinguisticsNA’AMA PAT-EL
9. Inferring Linguistic Change from a Permanently Closed Historical CorpusKAZUHIKO YOSHIDA
10. Studying Language Change in the Present, with Special Reference to EnglishLAURIE BAUER
11. Bayesian PhylolinguisticsSIMON GREENHILL, PAUL HEGGARTY, AND RUSSELL GRAY
12. Eliciting Evidence of Relatedness and Change: Fieldwork-Based Historical LinguisticsEDWARD VAJDA
13. Using Large Recent Corpora to Study Language Change,TERTTU NEVALAINEN
Part III: Causation and Linguistic Diachrony: What Starts, Shoves, Shifts, Shapes, and/or Spreads Language Change?
14. The Phonetics of Sound Change,ALAN C. L. YU
15. What Role Do Iconicity and Analogy Play in Grammaticalization?OLGA FISCHER
16. Spread across the Lexicon: Frequency, Borrowing, Analogy, and HomophonesBETTY S. PHILLIPS
17. Language Acquisition, Microcues, Parameters, and Syntactic ChangeMARIT WESTERGAARD
18. Theorizing Language Contact: From Synchrony to DiachronyYARON MATRAS
Part IV: Changing Perspectives in the Study of Linguistic Diachrony
19. Genetic Creolistics as Part of Evolutionary LinguisticsSALIKOKO MUFWENE
20. Historical Change in American Sign LanguageTED SUPALLA, FANNY LIMOUSIN, AND BETSY HICKS MCDONALD
21. Language Change in Language ObsolescenceALEXANDRA Y. AIKHENVALD
22. Narrative Historical Linguistics: Linguistic Evidence for Human (Pre)historyMALCOLM ROSS
23. A Comparative Evolutionary Approach to the Origins of Cognition and of LanguageMONICA TAMARIZ
24. Perturbations, Practices, Predictions, and Postludes in a Bioheuristic Historical LinguisticsRICHARD D. JANDA
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