{"product_id":"the-handbook-of-historical-linguistics-isbn-9780631195719","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  \u003cb\u003ePart I: Introduction:\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cp\u003eOn Language, Change, and Language Change – Or, Of History, Linguistics, and Historical Linguistics: Richard D. Janda \u0026amp; Brian D. Joseph, both The Ohio State University.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Methods for Studying Language Change:\u003c\/b\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. The Comparative Method: Robert L. Rankin, University of Kansas.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. On the Limits of the Comparative Method: S.P. Harrison, University of Western Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Internal Reconstruction: Don Ringe, University of Pennsylvania.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. How to Show Languages are Related: Methods for Distant Genetic Relationship: Lyle Campbell, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Diversity and Stability in Language: Johanna Nichols, University of California, Berkeley.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Phonological Change:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. The Phonological Basis of Sound Change: Paul Kiparsky, Stanford University.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Neogrammarian Sound Change: Mark Hale, Concordia University.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Variationist Approaches to Phonological Change: Gregory R. Guy, York University.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. “Phonologization” as the Start of Dephoneticization – Or, On Sound-Change and its Aftermath: Of Extension, Generalization, Lexicalization, and Morphologization: Richard D. Janda, The Ohio State University.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Morphological and Lexical Change:\u003c\/b\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Analogy: The Warp and Woof of Cognition: Raimo Anttila, University of California, Los Angeles.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Analogical Change: Hans Henrich Hock, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Naturalness and Morphological Change: Wolfgang U. Dressler, Vienna University.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. Morphologization from Syntax: Brian D. Joseph, The Ohio State University.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V: Syntactic Change:\u003c\/b\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. Grammatical Approaches to Syntactic Change: David Lightfoot, Georgetown University.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. Variationist Approaches to Syntactic Change: Susan Pintzuk, University of York.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. Cross-linguistic Perspectives on Syntactic Change: Alice C. Harris, Vanderbilt University.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17. Functional Perspectives on Syntactic Change: Marianne Mithun, University of California, Santa Barbara.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VI: Pragmatico-Semantic Change:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18. Grammaticalization: Bernd Heine, University of Cologne.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19. Mechanisms of Change in Grammaticization: The Role of Frequency: Joan Bybee, University of New Mexico.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20. Constructions in Grammaticalization: Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Stanford University.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21. An Approach to Semantic Change: Benjamin W. Fortson, IV.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VII: Explaining Linguistic Change:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22. Phonetics and Historical Phonology: John J. Ohala, University of California, Berkeley.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23. Contact as a Source of Language Change: Sarah Grey Thomason, University of Pittsburgh.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24. Dialectology and Linguistic Diffusion: Walt Wolfram \u0026amp; Natalie Schilling-Estes, North Carolina State University and Georgetown University.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25. Psycholinguistic Perspectives on Linguistic Change: Jean Aitchison, University of Oxford.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSubject Index.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eName Index.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLanguage Index.\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\"This volume restores the field of general historical linguistics to its rightful place as an equal partner to synchronic linguistics. 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.\" \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Labov, University of Pennsylvania\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\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.\" \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJay Jasanoff, Harvard University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\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\u003e\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":47990250012901,"sku":"NP9780631195719","price":295.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631195719.jpg?v=1761787062","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-handbook-of-historical-linguistics-isbn-9780631195719","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}