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The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics

Edited By

Claire Bowern

,

Bethwyn Evans

Copyright Year 2015



ISBN 9780415527897
Published June 26, 2014 by Routledge
776 Pages
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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

 

 

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Editors’ Introduction: Foundations of the new historical linguistics

1 Claire Bowern and Bethwyn Evans

Part 1 Overviews

  1. Lineage and the constructive imagination: the birth of historical linguistics

    2. Roger Lass

  2. New perspectives in historical linguistics

    3. Paul Kiparsky

  3. Compositionality and change

    4. Nigel Vincent

    Part 2 Methods and models

  4. The Comparative Method

    5. Michael Weiss

  5. The Comparative Method: theoretical issues

    6. Mark Hale

  6. Trees, waves and linkages: models of language diversification

    7. Alexandre François

  7. Language phylogenies

    8. Michael Dunn

  8. Diachronic stability and typology

    9. Søren Wichmann

    　

    Part 3 Language change

  9. The Sound change

    10. Andrew Garrett

  10. Phonological changes

    11. Silke Hamann

  11. Morphological change

    12. Stephen Anderson

  12. Morphological reconstruction

    13. Harold Koch

  13. Functional syntax and language change

    14. Zigmunt Frajzyngier

  14. Generative syntax and language change

    15. Elly van Gelderen

  15. Syntax and Syntactic reconstruction

    16. Jóhanna Barðdal

  16. Lexical semantic change and semantic reconstruction

    17. Matthias Urban

  17. Formal semantics/pragmatics and language change

    18. Ashwini Deo

  18. Discourse

    19. Alexandra D’Arcy

  19. Etymology

    20. Robert Mailhammer

  20. Sign languages in their historical context

    21. Susan D. Fisher

  21. Language acquisition and language change

    22. James N. Stanford

  22. Social dimensions of language change

    23. Lev Michael

  23. Language use, cognitive processes and linguistic change

    24. Joan Bybee and Clayton Beckner

  24. Contact-induced language change

    25. Christopher Lucas

  25. Language attrition and language change

Jane Simpson

Part 4 Interfaces

27 Demographic correlates of language diversity
Simon J. Greenhill

28 Historical linguistics and socio-cultural reconstruction
Patience Epps

29 Prehistory through language and archaeology
Paul Heggarty

30 Historical linguistics and molecular anthropology
Brigitte Pakendorf

Part 5 Regional Summaries

  1. Indo-European: methods and problems

    2. Benjamin W. Fortson IV

  2. Austronesian

    3. Ritsuko Kikusawa

  3. The Austro-Asiatic language phylum: a typology of phonological restructuring

    4. Paul Sidwell

  4. Pama-Nyungan

    5. Luisa Miceli

  5. The Pacific Northwest lingusitic area: historical perspectives

Sarah G. Thomason

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'...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