Historical Linguistics: Toward a Twenty-First Century Reintegration

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	Title:	Historical Linguistics: Toward a Twenty-First Century Reintegration
	Author:	Don Ringe, Joseph F. Eska
	Publisher:	2013-03-11
	Format:	Online PDF (325 pages, 2.6MB)
	Language:	English
	ISBN-10:	0521583322
	ISBN-13:	9780521583329
Download Free Pdf Ebooks Historical Linguistics: Toward a Twenty-First Century Reintegration.Plot: Bringing the advances of theoretical linguistics to the study of language change in a systematic way, this innovative textbook demonstrates the mutual relevance of historical linguistics and contemporary linguistics. Numerous case studies throughout the book show both that theoretical linguistics can be used to solve problems where traditional approaches to historical linguistics have failed to produce satisfying results, and that the results of historical research can have an impact on theory.

Table of Contents

1 The nature of human language and language variation
2 Language replication and language change
3 Language change in the speech community
4 Language contact as a source of change
5 Sound change
6 The evolution of phonological rules
7 Morphology
8 Morphological change
9 Syntactic change
10 Reconstruction
11 Beyond comparative reconstruction
Appendix: Recovering the pronunciation of dead languages: types of evidence

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