Research Guide on Language Change
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Research Guide on Language Change

  1. 573 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Research Guide on Language Change

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Table of contents

  1. I. Introduction
  2. Language change and the Saussurean dichotomy: Diachrony versus synchrony
  3. Linguistic reconstruction: The scope of historical and comparative linguistics
  4. II. Aspects of Language Change
  5. Synchronic manifestations of linguistic change
  6. Evidence of language change
  7. The context of language change
  8. Methods to Study Language Change
  9. Philology: Analysis of written records
  10. The chronology of phonological change
  11. Linguistic paleontology: Migration theory, prehistory, and archeology correlated with linguistic data
  12. Linguistic geography and language change
  13. Psycholinguistics: A research review
  14. Lexicostatistics
  15. Theoretical Models of Change
  16. The Neogrammarian hypothesis
  17. A structural view of sound-change
  18. The transformational-generative model
  19. Other Approaches
  20. Dialect geography
  21. Social stratification of language
  22. Contact and interference
  23. III. Types of Language Change
  24. Phonological Change
  25. Phonetic, phonemic, and phonotactic change
  26. Evidence
  27. Structuralist interpretation
  28. Synchronic rules and diachronic "laws": The Saussurean dichotomy reaffirmed
  29. Morphophonology
  30. Morphological change
  31. Syntactic change
  32. Lexical Change
  33. Onomasiological change: Sachen-change reflected by Wörter
  34. Semantic change
  35. Borrowing
  36. Etymology
  37. Change of Languages
  38. Language families and subgroupings, tree model and wave theory, and reconstruction of protolanguages
  39. The development of standard language (koine) and dialect: Language split and dialect merger
  40. Contact linguistics: Research on linguistic areas, strata, and interference in Europe
  41. Creolization and language change
  42. Bi- and multilingualism: Code-switching, interference and hybrids
  43. Subject Index
  44. Language Index
  45. Author Index