Variation and reconstruction / edited by Thomas D. Cravens.
Contributors: Variation and reconstruction: Introduction - Mary K. Niepokuj; Microvariability in time and space: Reconstructing the past from the present - Thomas D. Cravens; Reconstructing variation at shallow time depths: The historical phonetics of 19th century German dialects in the U.S. - Steven R. Geiger & Joseph C. Salmons; Social and structural factors in the development of Dutch urban dialects in the Early Modern period - Emily L. Goss & Robert B. Howell; Reduction of variation in the standardization of Castilian Spanish around 1500 -  Ray Harris-Northall; On projecting variation back into a proto-language, with particular attention to Germanic evidence and some thoughts on “drift” - Brian D. Joseph; Variation of direct speech complementizers in Achaemenid Aramaic documents from Fifth Century B.C.E. Egypt - Cynthia L. Miller; Language change and the speaker: On the discourse of Historical Linguistics - James Milroy; Prefix variation and reconstruction - Martha Ratliff; On reconstructing a linguistic continuum in Cape Dutch (1710 1840) - Paul T. Roberge; The reconstruction of variability in Proto-Germanic gender - Frederick W. Schwink; Variation as a reflection of contact: Notes from Southeast Asia - Graham Thurgood
Series: Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science.; v. 268
Publisher: J. Benjamins Pub.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: Cravens, Thomas D.; Language and languages -- Variation.; Reconstruction (Linguistics)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.