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The Handbook of Historical Linguistics

Brian Joseph (Editor), Richard Janda (Editor)
ISBN: 978-0-470-75633-1
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904 pages
April 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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The Handbook of Historical Linguistics provides a detailed account of the numerous issues, methods, and results that characterize current work in historical linguistics, the area of linguistics concerned with language change as well as past language states.

  • Provides a comprehensive and current account of the numerous issues, methods, and results that characterize historical linguistics.
  • Contains an extensive introduction that places the study of historical linguistics in its proper context within linguistics and the historical sciences in general.
  • Covers the methodology of historical linguistics and presents sophisticated overviews of the principles governing phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic change.
  • Includes contributions from the leading specialists in the field.