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 most directly concerned with language change as well as past language states.
- 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
Part I: Introduction:.
On Language, Change, and Language Change: Richard D. Janda & Brian D. Joseph, both The Ohio State University.
Part II: Methods for Studying Language Change: .
1. The Comparative Method: Robert L. Rankin, University of Kansas.
2. On the Limits of the Comparative Method: S.P. Harrison, University of Western Australia.
3. Internal Reconstruction: Don Ringe, University of Pennsylvania.
4. How to Show Languages are Related: Methods for Distant Genetic Relationship: Lyle Campbell, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
5. Diversity and Stability in Language: Johanna Nichols, University of California, Berkeley.
Part III: Phonological Change:.
6. The Phonological Basis of Sound Change: Paul Kiparsky, Stanford University.
7. Neogrammarian Sound Change: Mark Hale, Concordia University.
8. Variationist Approaches to Phonological Change: Gregory R. Guy, York University.
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