The Handbook of Historical Linguistics, Volume II
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The Handbook of Historical Linguistics, Volume II
About this book
An entirely new follow-up volume providing a detailed account of numerous additional issues, methods, and results that characterize current work in historical linguistics.
This brand-new, second volume of The Handbook of Historical Linguistics is a complement to the well-established first volume first 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 Handbook focuses on extensions of diachronic linguistics beyond those key issues.
This Handbook 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, new chapters are offered on matters such as the origin of language, evidence from language for reconstructing human prehistory, invocations of language present in studies of language past, benefits of linguistic fieldwork for historical investigation, ways in which not only biological evolution but also field biology can serve as heuristics for research into the rise and spread of linguistic innovations, and more. Moreover, it:
- offers novel and broadened content complementing the earlier volume so as to provide the fullest available overview of a wholly engrossing field
- includes 23 all-new contributed chapters, treating some familiar themes from fresh perspectives but mostly covering entirely new topics
- features expanded discussion of material from language families other than Indo-European
- provides a multiplicity of views from numerous specialists in linguistic diachrony.
The Handbook of Historical Linguistics, Volume II 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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- About the Editors
- About the Contributors
- 1 Introduction: Some Things Old, Some Renewed, Some on Borrowing – Here, Previewed
- Part I: Change Within and Across Core Components of Language
- Part II: On the Variety of Methods and Foci Available for the Study of Language Change
- Part III: Causation and Linguistic Diachrony: What Starts, Shoves, Shifts, Shapes, and/or Spreads Language Change?
- Part IV: Changing Perspectives in the Study of Linguistic Diachrony
- Subject Index
- Language Index
- Name Index
- End User License Agreement