{"product_id":"the-handbook-of-historical-linguistics-isbn-9781405127479","title":"The Handbook of Historical Linguistics","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Handbook of Historical Linguistics\u003c\/i\u003e provides a detailed account of the numerous issues, methods, and results that characterize current work in historical linguistics, the area of linguistics most directly concerned with language change as well as past language states.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cul class=\"noindent\"\u003e \u003cli\u003eContains an extensive introduction that places the study of historical linguistics in its proper context within linguistics and the historical sciences in general\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCovers the methodology of historical linguistics and presents sophisticated overviews of the principles governing phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic change\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes contributions from the leading specialists in the field\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Contributors ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Introduction 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn Language, Change, and Language Change – Or, Of History, Linguistics, and Historical Linguistics 3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRichard D. Janda and Brian D. Joseph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Methods for Studying Language Change 181\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The Comparative Method 183\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobert L. Rankin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 On the Limits of the Comparative Method 213\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eS. P. Harrison\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Internal Reconstruction 244\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDon Ringe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 How to Show Languages are Related: Methods for Distant Genetic Relationship 262\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLyle Campbell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Diversity and Stability in Language 283\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohanna Nichols\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Phonological Change 311\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 The Phonological Basis of Sound Change 313\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePaul Kiparsky\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 \u003c\/b\u003eNeogrammarian\u003cb\u003e Sound Change 343\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMark Hale\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Variationist Approaches to Phonological Change 369\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGregory R. Guy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 “Phonologization” as the Start of Dephoneticization – Or, On Sound Change and its Aftermath: Of Extension, Generalization, Lexicalization, and Morphologization 401\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRichard D. Janda\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV Morphological and Lexical Change 423\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Analogy: The Warp and Woof of Cognition 425\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRaimo Anttila\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Analogical Change 441\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHans Henrich Hock\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Naturalness and Morphological Change 461\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWolfgang U. Dressler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Morphologization from Syntax 472\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrian D. Joseph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V Syntactic Change 493\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Grammatical Approaches to Syntactic Change 495\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Lightfoot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Variationist Approaches to Syntactic Change 509\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSusan Pintzuk\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on Syntactic Change 529\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlice C. Harris\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Functional Perspectives on Syntactic Change 552\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarianne Mithun\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Vi Pragmatico-semantic Change 573\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Grammaticalization 575\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBernd Heine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Mechanisms of Change in Grammaticization: The Role of Frequency 602\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJoan Bybee\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Constructions in Grammaticalization 624\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eElizabeth Closs Traugott\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 An Approach to Semantic Change 648\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBenjamin W. Fortson iv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VII Explaining Linguistic Change 667\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Phonetics and Historical Phonology 669\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn J. Ohala\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Contact as a Source of Language Change 687\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSarah Grey Thomason\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Dialectology and Linguistic Diffusion 713\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWalt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 Psycholinguistic Perspectives on Language Change 736\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJean Aitchison\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 744\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSubject Index 843\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eName Index 856\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLanguage Index 879\u003c\/p\u003e  \"\u003ci\u003eThe Handbook of Historical Linguistics\u003c\/i\u003e proves an atypical handbook in several positive senses, beginning with the introduction's bold tackling of foundational issues. While many chapters offer the expected compact overviews of familiar topics, others are, we hope, destined to become influential as needed lucid statements on particular issues... and thought-provoking, original contributions... The value of \u003ci\u003eThe Handbook of Historical Linguistics\u003c\/i\u003e is multifaceted; its influence will be far-reaching and long-lasting.\" \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJournal of Linguistics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e“The editors have assembled a remarkable array of contributors who can introduce readers to the professional standards of scholarship and scientific reasoning that characterize the field.” \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWilliam Labov\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eUniversity\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eof\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ePennsylvania\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“An authoritative collection, by a stellar group of contributors, that presents historical linguistics as it really is – a multifaceted study that is both a branch of general linguistics and a field in its own right. No other survey covers the territory half so well.” \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eJay Jasanoff, Harvard University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eBrian D. Joseph\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Linguistics and Kenneth E. Naylor Professor of South Slavic Linguistics at The Ohio State University. Within historical linguistics, his research focuses mainly on Indo-European languages. He has written and edited numerous books – including \u003ci\u003eLanguage History, Language Change, and Language Relationship\u003c\/i\u003e (with Hans H. Hock, 1996) and \u003ci\u003eThe Synchrony and Diachrony of the Balkan Infinitive\u003c\/i\u003e (1983) – and has published over 160 articles. He became editor of the journal \u003ci\u003eLanguage\u003c\/i\u003e in 2002.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard D. Janda\u003c\/b\u003e is Senior Lecturer and Coordinator for Undergraduate Education in the Department of Linguistics at The Ohio State University. A specialist in both Germanic and Romance linguistics, he has written widely not only on diachronic but also on synchronic issues in phonology, morphology, and morphosyntax, as well as on historical linguistics in general. His more than 70 publications focus on drawing broader implications from the application of theory to specific problems of structure, function, variation, and change in individual languages.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003ci\u003eThe Handbook of Historical Linguistics\u003c\/i\u003e provides a detailed account of the numerous issues, methods, and results that characterize current work in historical linguistics, the area of linguistics most directly concerned with language change as well as past language states. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn its introduction and 25 chapters, written by leading specialists in the field, this volume achieves two main goals. It covers the most important methods of historical linguistics including comparative reconstruction and internal reconstruction, reliable ways of determining language relatedness, and contemporary approaches to dialectological investigation. It also presents sophisticated overviews of the principles that emerge from the in-depth study of phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic change, including grammaticalization, and offers wide-ranging explorations of the major factors at work in the causation of change.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book begins with an extensive and uniquely comprehensive introduction by the editors that places the study of historical linguistics in its proper context both within the field of linguistics itself and within the historical sciences more generally. The well-conceived and lucidly written articles in this volume, supplemented with an extensive bibliography and detailed indexes, make \u003ci\u003eThe Handbook of Historical Linguistics\u003c\/i\u003e an indispensable resource for anyone with an interest in history and\/or language.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990249980133,"sku":"NP9781405127479","price":94.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405127479.jpg?v=1761787063","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-handbook-of-historical-linguistics-isbn-9781405127479","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}