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:
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.
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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
Table of Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Editors’ Introduction: Foundations of the new historical linguistics
1 Claire Bowern and Bethwyn Evans
Part 1 Overviews
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. Fisher
James N. Stanford
Lev Michael
Joan Bybee and Clayton Beckner
Christopher Lucas
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
Benjamin W. Fortson IV
Ritsuko Kikusawa
Paul Sidwell
Luisa Miceli
Sarah G. Thomason
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