Language history, language change, and language relationship
Subtitle: an introduction to historical and comparative linguistics
By: by Hans Henrich Hock, Brian D. Joseph.
Contributors: Joseph, Brian D.
Edition: 2nd rev. ed.
Series: Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs -- 218; Trends in linguistics -- 218.
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter; Walter de Gruyter Inc.; De Gruyter Mouton
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 588
ISBN-13: 9783110218428; 9783110214291
Subjects: Historical linguistics; Comparative linguistics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The discovery of Indo-European; title: Writing: its history and its decipherment; title: Sound change; title: Analogy and change in word structure; title: Syntactic change; title: Semantic change; title: Lexical borrowing; title: Lexical change and etymology: the study of words; title: Language, dialect, and standard; title: Dialect geography and dialectology; title: Language spread, link languages, and bilingualism; title: Convergence: dialectology beyond language boundaries; title: Pidgins, creoles, and related forms of language; title: Language death; title: Comparative method: establishing language relationship; title: Proto-world?: the question of long-distance genetic relationships; title: Historical linguistics, history, and prehistory: linguistic paleontology and other applications of our methods.