· 2014· Book chapter
The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics
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This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of historical linguistics, covering foundational theories, methods, models, and various aspects of language change and its interfaces with other disciplines.
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- Covers foundational theories and new perspectives in historical linguistics.
- Details methods and models such as the comparative method and phylogenetic approaches.
- Examines various types of language change: sound, phonological, morphological, syntactic, lexical semantic, and discourse.
- Explores interfaces with social dimensions, language acquisition, contact-induced change, and attrition.
- Includes regional summaries for major language families like Indo-European and Austronesian.
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Abstract
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 Francois * Language phylogenies Michael Dunn * Diachronic stability and typology Soren 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 Johanna Barddal * 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
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