Language history, language change, and language relationship
Subtitle: an introduction to historical and comparative linguistics
By: by Hans Henrich Hock, Brian Joseph.
Contributors: Joseph, Brian D.
Edition: 2nd rev. ed.
Series: Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs -- 218
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9783110218428; 9783110214291
Subjects: Historical linguistics; Comparative linguistics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface to the first edition; title: Preface to the second edition; title: Introductory; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. The discovery of Indo-European; title: 3. Writing: its history and its decipherment; title: 4. Sound change; title: 5. Analogy and change in word structure; title: 6. Syntactic change; title: 7. Semantic change; title: 8. Lexical borrowing; title: 9. Lexical change and etymology: the study of words; title: 10. Language, dialect, and standard; title: 11. Dialect geography and dialectology; title: 12. Language spread, link languages, and bilingualism; title: 13. Convergence: dialectology beyond language boundaries; title: 14. Pidgins, creoles, and related forms of language; title: 15. Language death; title: 16. Comparative method: establishing language relationship; title: 17. Proto-world?: the question of long-distance genetic relationships; title: 18. Historical linguistics, history, and prehistory: linguistic paleontology and other applications of our methods; title: Chapter notes and suggested readings; title: Copyright acknowledgments; title: References.