Historical linguistics
Subtitle: problems and perspectives
By: edited by Charles Jones.
Contributors: Jones, Charles, 1939-
Series: Longman linguistics library
Publisher: Longman; Routledge
Published: 1993
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 405
Subjects: Historical linguistics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Parameters of syntactic change / John Anderson; title: Change and metatheory at the beginning of the 1990s : the primacy of history / Raimo Anttila; title: Typology and reconstruction / Bernard Comrie; title: On the phonetic basis of phonological change / Patricia Donegan; title: Internally and externally motivated change in language contact settings / Nancy C. Dorian; title: How real(ist) are reconstructions? / Roger Lass; title: Why UG needs a learning theory : triggering verb movement / David Lightfoot; title: On the social origins of language change / James Milroy; title: The phonetics of sound change / John Ohala; title: Nicaraguan English in history / Wayne O'Neil; title: Language change as language improvement / Theo Vennemann; title: Bidirectional diffusion in sound change / William S-Y Wang and Chinfa Lien.