Historical Linguistics - Toward a Twenty-First Century Reintegration

Informationen zum Autor Don Ringe is Kahn Term Professor in Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. Klappentext This innovative textbook demonstrates the mutual relevance of historical linguistics and contemporary linguistics. Zusammenfassung Bringing the advances of theoretical linguistics to the study of language change! this textbook demonstrates the mutual relevance of historical linguistics and contemporary linguistics. It argues that this approach can and should lead to the re-integration of historical linguistics as one of the core areas in the study of language. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The nature of human language and language variation; 2. Language replication and language change; 3. Language change in the speech community; 4. Language contact as a source of change; 5. Sound change; 6. The evolution of phonological rules; 7. Morphology; 8. Morphological change; 9. Syntactic change; 10. Reconstruction; 11. Beyond comparative reconstruction: subgrouping and 'long-distance' relationships; Appendix: recovering the pronunciation of dead languages: types of evidence.

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• Authors: Joseph F. Eska, Joseph F. (Virginia College of Technology) Eska, Anthony Kroch, Don Ringe, Don (University of Pennsylvania) Ringe, Don (University of Pennsylvania) Eska Ringe, Don Eska Ringe, Donald A. Ringe, Donald A. Eska Ringe, Donald Eska Ringe, RINGE DONALD ESKA JOSEPH F
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.01.2013
• EAN: 9780521583329
• ISBN: 978-0-521-58332-9
• No. of pages: 325
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures