TY - BOOK ID - 75252 TI - Historical linguistics PY - 1996 SN - 0340607580 0340662956 9780340607589 9780340662953 PB - London Arnold DB - UniCat KW - Historical linguistics KW - Contact de langues KW - Contact linguistics KW - Contactlinguïstiek KW - Historische linguïstiek KW - Historische taalwetenschap KW - Languages in contact KW - Langues collatérales KW - Langues en contact KW - Linguistics [Historical ] KW - Linguistique de contact KW - Linguistique historique KW - Linguïstiek [Historische ] KW - Taalcontact KW - Taalwetenschap [Historische ] KW - Historical linguistics. KW - Comparative linguistics. KW - Comparative linguistics KW - 800 <09> KW - Taalwetenschap. Taalkunde. Linguistiek--Geschiedenis van ... KW - 800 <09> Taalwetenschap. Taalkunde. Linguistiek--Geschiedenis van ... KW - Frontière (Linguistique) KW - Frontières linguistiques KW - Diachronic linguistics KW - Dynamic linguistics KW - Evolutionary linguistics KW - Language and languages KW - Language and history KW - Linguistics KW - Comparative philology KW - Philology, Comparative KW - Taalwetenschap. Taalkunde. Linguistiek--Geschiedenis van .. KW - History KW - Taalwetenschap. Taalkunde. Linguistiek--Geschiedenis van UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:75252 AB - This is a major introduction to historical linguistics, designed for students who have no background in historical linguistics but who have at least some knowledge of phonetics, phonology and morphology. Historical linguistic theory is introduced throughout where appropriate, although the book presupposes no acquaintance with contemporary theories of phonology or syntax. The author introduces all major types of change, consequences of change (dialect and language families), methods in historical linguistics, and later chapters deal with sociolinguistic aspects of change, language contact, birth and death of languages, language and prehistory and finally the issue of very remote relations.The book covers the more recent work on the study of phonological changes in progress, on morphological and syntactic change, and on typological approaches to change, and it addresses such recent controversies as the Nostratic hypothesis and the Greenberg/Cavalli-Sforza work on language, genes and teeth. It ER -