[PDF] Directions For Historical Linguistics eBook

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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 46,8 MB
Release : 2020-01-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 900441407X

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This volume consists of papers based on presentations given at a roundtable on “New Directions for Historical Linguistics: Impact and Synthesis, 50 Years Later,” held at the 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics in 2017, as well as an introduction by the editors.

Author : Winfred Philipp Lehmann
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 33,5 MB
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027235163

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This volume presents seven extensive essays by specialists in their respective fields of historical linguistics. The first essay after the Introduction states the principles presented in Directions for Historical Linguistics (1968) and assesses the progress made since then towards constructing a general theory of language change. Like the following essays on phonology and morphology, it poses new questions that have arisen in the increasingly ambitious research. Historical attention to discourse, the topic of the next essay, is virtually new, though it too finds predecessors among philologists who devoted themselves to texts. Finally, two essays treat etymology, one concentrating on the rigorously investigated Romance field, the other on Indo-European, especially on new insights prompted by attention to Hittite.

Author : Winfred Philipp Lehmann
Publisher :
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 25,35 MB
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004351899

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This book, a reprint of one of the classics of historical linguistics, contains five papers originally presented at a 1966 symposium at the University of Texas at Austin. The individual contributions cover a broad range of topics, from Ferdinand de Saussure's influence on historical linguistics to the connection between inflectional paradigms and sound change to language change in contemporary linguistic communities. Each of the contributions has had a sizable effect on the development of linguistics; the final paper, by Uriel Weinreich, Marvin Herzog, and William Labov, for instance, laid the foundation for contemporary historical sociolinguistics. The volume has long been out of print; this new edition will make it accessible to a new generation of linguists.

Author : Brian Joseph
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 904 pages
File Size : 32,45 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0470756330

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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

Author : Hans Henrich Hock
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1291 pages
File Size : 14,34 MB
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110746565

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Historical linguistic theory and practice consist of a large number of chronological "layers" that have been accepted in the course of time and have acquired a permanence of their own. These range from neogrammarian conceptualizations of sound change, analogy, and borrowing, to prosodic, lexical, morphological, and syntactic change, and to present-day views on rule change and the effects of language contact. To get a full grasp of the principles of historical linguistics it is therefore necessary to understand the nature of each of these "layers". This book is a major revision and reorganization of the earlier editions and adds entirely new chapters on morphological change and lexical change, as well as a detailed discussion of linguistic palaeontology and ideological responses to the findings of historical linguistics to this landmark publication.

Author : Robert J. Jeffers
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 37,91 MB
Release : 1982-09-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0262600110

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Intended for use in advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate courses, this text presents a wide survey of methodological procedures and theoretical positions.

Author : Winfred P. Lehmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 44,20 MB
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1136902163

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Historical Linguistics provides a comprehensive and clearly written introduction to historical linguistic theory and methods. Since its first publication in 1962 the book has established itself as core reading for students of linguistics. This edition has been thoroughly revised. Drawing on recent linguistic and archaeological research Professor Lehmann incorporates key developments in the field. These include exciting advances in the history and development of writing: and in typological classification which allows better understanding of the structure of early languages. Well-illustrated with Indo-European examples, and supplementary exercises which draw on data from other language families as well, the book will enable students to carry out independent work in historical studies on any language family, as well as up-to-date work in Indo-European.