Perspectives On Historical Linguistics
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Historical Linguistics
The contributors to this volume cover the international range of scholarship in the field of Historical Linguistics, as well as some of its major themes. The work and ideas they discuss are relevant not only to other aspects of Historical Linguistics but also to more general developments in linguistic theory. Along with Professor Jones' Introduction, their comments provide a major overview of Historical Linguistics that will be the reference point for its development for many years to come and form an important contribution to general theories of linguistic behaviour.
Perspectives on Historical Linguistics
Author: Winfred P. Lehmann
language: en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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.
English Historical Linguistics
Author: Laurel J. Brinton
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2017-07-06
Uniquely organized in terms of theoretical approaches, this is an advanced textbook on the study of English historical linguistics.