The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics
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(Eds.) Claire Bowern / Bethwyn Evans
简介
The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics provides a survey of the field covering the methods which underpin current work; models of language change; and the importance of historical linguistics for other subfields of linguistics and other disciplines.
Divided into five sections, the volume encompass a wide range of approaches and addresses issues in the following areas:
historical perspectives
methods and models
language change
interfaces
regional summaries
Each of the thirty-two chapters is written by a specialist in the field and provides: a introduction to the subject; an analysis of the relationship between the diachronic and synchronic study of the topic; an overview of the main current and critical trends; and examples from primary data. The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics is essential reading for researchers and postgraduate students working in this area.
'...this volume represents a great introduction for anyone interested in historical linguistics, as well as in other connected disciplines such as history, archaeology, and molecular anthropology. Also, it represents a good starting point for research and an impressive testimony to the progress achieved in historical linguistics.' - Monica Vasileanu, Romanian Academy, Institute of Linguistics, The LINGUIST List
目录
Table of Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Editors’ Introduction: Foundations of the new historical linguistics
1 Claire Bowern and Bethwyn Evans
Part 1 Overviews
Lineage and the constructive imagination: the birth of historical linguistics
Roger Lass
New perspectives in historical linguistics
Paul Kiparsky
Compositionality and change
Nigel Vincent
Part 2 Methods and models
The Comparative Method
Michael Weiss
The Comparative Method: theoretical issues
Mark Hale
Trees, waves and linkages: models of language diversification
Alexandre François
Language phylogenies
Michael Dunn
Diachronic stability and typology
Søren Wichmann
Part 3 Language change
The Sound change
Andrew Garrett
Phonological changes
Silke Hamann
Morphological change
Stephen Anderson
Morphological reconstruction
Harold Koch
Functional syntax and language change
Zigmunt Frajzyngier
Generative syntax and language change
Elly van Gelderen
Syntax and Syntactic reconstruction
Jóhanna Barðdal
Lexical semantic change and semantic reconstruction
Matthias Urban
Formal semantics/pragmatics and language change
Ashwini Deo
Discourse
Alexandra D’Arcy
Etymology
Robert Mailhammer
Sign languages in their historical context
Susan D. Fisher
Language acquisition and language change
James N. Stanford
Social dimensions of language change
Lev Michael
Language use, cognitive processes and linguistic change
Joan Bybee and Clayton Beckner
Contact-induced language change
Christopher Lucas
Language attrition and language change
Jane Simpson
Part 4 Interfaces
27 Demographic correlates of language diversity
Simon J. Greenhill
28 Historical linguistics and socio-cultural reconstruction
Patience Epps
29 Prehistory through language and archaeology
Paul Heggarty
30 Historical linguistics and molecular anthropology
Brigitte Pakendorf
Part 5 Regional Summaries
Indo-European: methods and problems
Benjamin W. Fortson IV
Austronesian
Ritsuko Kikusawa
The Austro-Asiatic language phylum: a typology of phonological restructuring
Paul Sidwell
Pama-Nyungan
Luisa Miceli
The Pacific Northwest lingusitic area: historical perspectives
Sarah G. Thomason