Morphology and language history
Subtitle: in honour of Harold Koch
By: edited by Claire Bowern, Bethwyn Evans, Luisa Miceli
Series: Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory -- v. 298; Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science -- v. 298.
Publisher: John Benjamins
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9789027290960
Subjects: Comparative and general Grammar; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES; Grammar & Punctuation; Linguistics; Historical linguistics; Morphology; Syntax
Description: This volume aims to make a contribution to codifying the methods and practices linguists use to recover language history, focussing predominantly on historical morphology. The volume includes studies on a wide range of languages: not only Indo-European, but also Austronesian, Sinitic, Mon-Khmer, Basque, one Papuan language family, as well as a number of Australian families. Few collections are as cross-linguistic as this, reflecting the new challenges which have emerged from the study of languages outside those best known from historical linguistics. The contributors illustrate shared methodol.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Morphology and Language History; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; CONTRIBUTORS' ADDRESSES; INTRODUCTION; I. GENETIC RELATEDNESS; II. RECONSTRUCTION; III. PROCESSES OF CHANGE; INDEX OF LANGUAGES; INDEX OF SUBJECTS; The series CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY.