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Publish Date
2009
Publisher
Mouton de Gruyter,
Walter de Gruyter Inc.,
De Gruyter Mouton
Language
English
Pages
588
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Language history, language change, and language relationship: an introduction to historical and comparative linguistics
2009, Mouton de Gruyter, Walter de Gruyter Inc., De Gruyter Mouton
in English
- 2nd rev. ed.
3110218429 9783110218428
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Table of Contents
Introduction
The discovery of Indo-European
Writing: its history and its decipherment
Sound change
Analogy and change in word structure
Syntactic change
Semantic change
Lexical borrowing
Lexical change and etymology: the study of words
Language, dialect, and standard
Dialect geography and dialectology
Language spread, link languages, and bilingualism
Convergence: dialectology beyond language boundaries
Pidgins, creoles, and related forms of language
Language death
Comparative method: establishing language relationship
Proto-world?: the question of long-distance genetic relationships
Historical linguistics, history, and prehistory: linguistic paleontology and other applications of our methods.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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