{"product_id":"the-handbook-of-historical-linguistics-volume-ii-isbn-9781118732212","title":"The Handbook of Historical Linguistics, Volume II","description":"\u003cp\u003e“The first volume of \u003ci\u003ethe Handbook of Historical Linguistics\u003c\/i\u003e is the best-worn handbook among many in my office and even though it’s almost 20 years old, I still consult it often. Still, historical linguistics is a very different field today than it was in 2003 and this new volume fully reflects and engages with the state of the art. It’s a completely new book, a worthy successor, and I look forward to wearing out this second volume.”\u003cbr\u003e Joseph Salmons, University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This is an important resource for right now and far into the future. In its breadth and depth it has everything we could ask for and more, a comprehensive survey in 24 chapters written by the world’s foremost scholars. It unites time-honored fundamentals of historical linguistics and progressive lines of ongoing research.”\u003cbr\u003e Lyle Campbell, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, USA \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis brand-new, second volume of \u003ci\u003eThe Handbook of Historical Linguistics \u003c\/i\u003eis a complement to the well-established first volume, initially published in 2003. It includes extended content allowing uniquely comprehensive coverage of the study of language(s) over time. Though it adds fresh perspectives on several topics previously treated in the first volume, this \u003ci\u003eHandbook \u003c\/i\u003efocuses on extensions of diachronic linguistics beyond those key issues. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis \u003ci\u003eHandbook \u003c\/i\u003eprovides readers with studies of language change whose perspectives range from comparisons of large open vs. small closed corpora, via creolistics and linguistic contact in general, to obsolescence and endangerment of languages. Written by leading scholars in their respective fields, the chapters of this \u003ci\u003eHandbook\u003c\/i\u003e cover new topics such as the origin of language, the evidence from language for reconstructing human prehistory, the relevance of the study of present-day language for studying language in the past, and the benefits of linguistic fieldwork for historical investigation. Unique to this volume is a chapter that discusses in detail a large number of highly specific predictions as to the future of a widely spoken language-variety, thereby focusing long-term attention on thirty changes in the lexicon, phonology, morphology, and morphosyntax of North American English. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Handbook of Historical Linguistics, Volume II, \u003c\/i\u003eis an ideal book for undergraduate and graduate students in linguistics, researchers, and professional linguists, as well as all those interested in the history of particular languages and the history of language more generally. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Editors ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbout the Contributors xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Introduction: Some Things Old, Some Renewed, Some on Borrowing – Here, Previewed 1\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRichard D. Janda, Brian D. Joseph, and Barbara S. Vance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Change Within and Across Core Components of Language 5\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The Expanding Universe of the Study of Sound Change 7\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFrans Hinskens\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Tonogenesis: Register \u0026gt; Tones \u0026gt; Tone Realignment 47\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGraham Thurgood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Historical Morphology – Overview and Update 63\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBrian D. Joseph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Theory and Data in Historical Syntax: A Case Study from Old French 88\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBarbara S. Vance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II On the Variety of Methods and Foci Available for the Study of Language Change 123\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Dialect Convergence and the Formation of New Dialects 125\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePeter Trudgill\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Formal Syntax as a Phylogenetic Method 145\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCristina Guardiano, Giuseppe Longobardi, Guido Cordoni, and Paola Crisma\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Typological Approaches and Historical Linguistics 183\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNa’ama Pat‐El\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Inferring Linguistic Change from a Permanently Closed Historical Corpus 196\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKazuhiko Yoshida\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Studying Language Change in the Present, with Special Reference to English 214\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLaurie Bauer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Bayesian Phylolinguistics 226\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSimon J. Greenhill, Paul Heggarty, and Russell D. Gray\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Eliciting Evidence of Relatedness and Change: Fieldwork‐Based Historical Linguistics 254\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEdward J. Vajda\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Using Large Recent Corpora to Study Language Change 272\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTerttu Nevalainen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Causation and Linguistic Diachrony: What Starts, Shoves, Shifts, Shapes, and\/or Spreads Language Change? 291\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 The Phonetics of Sound Change 293\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAlan C. L. Yu\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 What Role Do Iconicity and Analogy Play in Grammaticalization? 314\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eOlga Fischer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Spread across the Lexicon: Frequency, Borrowing, Analogy, and Homophones 343\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBetty S. Phillips\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Language Acquisition, Microcues, Parameters, and Morphosyntactic Change 357\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMarit Westergaard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Theorizing Language Contact: From Synchrony to Diachrony 375\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eYaron Matras\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV Changing Perspectives in the Study of Linguistic Diachrony 393\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Genetic Creolistics as Part of Evolutionary Linguistics 395\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSalikoko S. Mufwene\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Historical Change in American Sign Language 423\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTed Supalla, Fanny Limousin, and Betsy Hicks McDonald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Language Change in Language Obsolescence 447\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAlexandra Y. Aikhenvald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Narrative Historical Linguistics: Linguistic Evidence for Human (Pre)history 468\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMalcolm Ross\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 A Comparative Evolutionary Approach to the Origins and Evolution of Cognition and of Language 500\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMónica Tamariz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Perturbations, Practices, Predictions, and Postludes in a Bioheuristic Historical Linguistics 523\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRichard D. Janda\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSubject Index 651\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLanguage Index 677\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eName Index 685\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard D. Janda\u003c\/b\u003e is currently Visiting Scholar in French and Italian at Indiana University Bloomington, USA, but his teaching spans eleven universities in nine US states. He is author or editor of over 75 publications, including \u003ci\u003eThe Handbook of Historical Linguistics\u003c\/i\u003e (Wiley Blackwell, 2003). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrian D. Joseph\u003c\/b\u003e is Distinguished University Professor of Linguistics and The Kenneth E. Naylor Professor of South Slavic Linguistics at The Ohio State University, USA. He has written and edited numerous books and published some 300 articles. He served as editor of the journal \u003ci\u003eLanguage\u003c\/i\u003e from 2002???–???2009, and is currently co-editor of the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Greek Linguistics\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBarbara S. Vance\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Associate Professor of French Linguistics at Indiana University Bloomington, USA. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eSyntactic Change in Medieval French\u003c\/i\u003e (1997) and is a specialist in the historical syntax of French and Occitan.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The first edition of \u003ci\u003ethe Handbook of Historical Linguistics\u003c\/i\u003e is the best-worn handbook among many in my office and even though it's almost 20 years old, I still consult it often. Still, historical linguistics is a very different field today than it was in 2003 and this new edition fully reflects and engages with the state of the art. It's a completely new volume, a worthy successor, and I look forward to wearing out this second edition.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJoseph Salmons,\u003c\/b\u003e University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA \t \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is an important resource for right now and far into the future. In its breadth and depth it has everything we could ask for and more, a comprehensive survey in 24 chapters written by the world's foremost scholars. It unites time-honored fundamentals of historical linguistics and progressive lines of ongoing research.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eLyle Campbell,\u003c\/b\u003e University of Hawai'i at M??noa, USA \t \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis brand-new, second volume of \u003ci\u003eThe Handbook of Historical Linguistics\u003c\/i\u003e is a complement to the well-established first volume, initially published in 2003. It includes extended content allowing uniquely comprehensive coverage of the study of language(s) over time. Though it adds fresh perspectives on several topics previously treated in the first volume, this \u003ci\u003eHandbook\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on extensions of diachronic linguistics beyond those key issues. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis \u003ci\u003eHandbook\u003c\/i\u003e provides readers with studies of language change whose perspectives range from comparisons of large open vs. small closed corpora, via creolistics and linguistic contact in general, to obsolescence and endangerment of languages. Written by leading scholars in their respective fields, the chapters of this \u003ci\u003eHandbook\u003c\/i\u003e cover new topics such as the origin of language, the evidence from language for reconstructing human prehistory, the relevance of the study of present-day language for studying language in the past, and the benefits of linguistic fieldwork for historical investigation. Unique to this volume is a chapter that discusses in detail a large number of highly specific predictions as to the future of a widely spoken language-variety, thereby focusing long-term attention on thirty changes in the lexicon, phonology, morphology, and morphosyntax of North American English. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Handbook of Historical Linguistics, Volume II,\u003c\/i\u003e is an ideal book for undergraduate and graduate students in linguistics, researchers, and professional linguists, as well as all those interested in the history of particular languages and the history of language more generally.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The first edition of the \u003ci\u003eHandbook of Historical Linguistics \u003c\/i\u003eis the best-worn handbook among many in my office and even though it’s almost 20 years old, I still consult it often. Still, historical linguistics is a very different field today than it was in 2003 and this new edition fully reflects and engages with the state of the art. It’s a completely new volume, a worthy successor, and I look forward to wearing out this second edition.\"\u003cbr\u003eJoseph Salmons, University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This is an important resource for right now and far into the future. In its breadth and depth it has everything we could ask for and more, a comprehensive survey in 24 chapters written by the world’s foremost scholars. 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