1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics
The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics provides a survey of the field covering the methods which underpin current work; models of language change; and the importance of historical linguistics for other subfields of linguistics and other disciplines.
Divided into five sections, the volume encompass a wide range of approaches and addresses issues in the following areas:
- historical perspectives
- methods and models
- language change
- interfaces
- regional summaries
Each of the thirty-two chapters is written by a specialist in the field and provides: a introduction to the subject; an analysis of the relationship between the diachronic and synchronic study of the topic; an overview of the main current and critical trends; and examples from primary data. The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics is essential reading for researchers and postgraduate students working in this area.
Chapter 28 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9781315794013.ch28
Editors’ Introduction: Foundations of the new historical linguistics
1 Claire Bowern and Bethwyn Evans
Part 1 Overviews
- Lineage and the constructive imagination: the birth of historical linguistics
- New perspectives in historical linguistics
- Compositionality and change
- The Comparative Method
- The Comparative Method: theoretical issues
- Trees, waves and linkages: models of language diversification
- Language phylogenies
- Diachronic stability and typology
- The Sound change
- Phonological changes
- Morphological change
- Morphological reconstruction
- Functional syntax and language change
- Generative syntax and language change
- Syntax and Syntactic reconstruction
- Lexical semantic change and semantic reconstruction
- Formal semantics/pragmatics and language change
- Discourse
- Etymology
- Sign languages in their historical context
- Language acquisition and language change
- Social dimensions of language change
- Language use, cognitive processes and linguistic change
- Contact-induced language change
- Language attrition and language change
Roger Lass
Paul Kiparsky
Nigel Vincent
Part 2 Methods and models
Michael Weiss
Mark Hale
Alexandre François
Michael Dunn
Søren Wichmann
Part 3 Language change
Andrew Garrett
Silke Hamann
Stephen Anderson
Harold Koch
Zigmunt Frajzyngier
Elly van Gelderen
Jóhanna Barðdal
Matthias Urban
Ashwini Deo
Alexandra D’Arcy
Robert Mailhammer
Susan D. Fischer
James N. Stanford
Lev Michael
Joan Bybee and Clayton Beckner
Christopher Lucas
Jane Simpson
Part 4 Interfaces
26 Demographic correlates of language diversity
Simon J. Greenhill
27 Historical linguistics and socio-cultural reconstruction
Patience Epps
28 Prehistory through language and archaeology
Paul Heggarty
29 Historical linguistics and molecular anthropology
Brigitte Pakendorf
Part 5 Regional Summaries
30 Indo-European: methods and problems
Benjamin W. Fortson IV
31 The Austronesian language family
Ritsuko Kikusawa
32 The Austro-Asiatic language phylum: a typology of phonological restructuring
Paul Sidwell
33 Pama-Nyungan
Luisa Miceli
34 The Pacific Northwest lingusitic area: historical perspectives
Sarah G. Thomason
Index
Biography
Claire Bowern, Bethwyn Evans
'...this volume represents a great introduction for anyone interested in historical linguistics, as well as in other connected disciplines such as history, archaeology, and molecular anthropology. Also, it represents a good starting point for research and an impressive testimony to the progress achieved in historical linguistics.' - Monica Vasileanu, Romanian Academy, Institute of Linguistics, The LINGUIST List
