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Language history, language change, and language relationship an introduction to historical and comparative linguistics
Title
Language history, language change, and language relationship [electronic resource] : an introduction to historical and comparative linguistics / Hans Henrich Hock, Brian D. Joseph.
ISBN
9783110613285
311061328X
9783110609691
311060969X
Edition
3rd revised edition.
Publication
Berlin ; Boston : de Gruyter, [2019]
Physical Description
1 online resource ( x, 565 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 04, 2019).
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 20, 2020
Series
Mouton Textbook
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Contents
Introduction
The discovery of Indo-European
Writing: its history and its decipherment
Sound change
Analogy and change in word structure
Syntactic change
Semantic change
Lexical borrowing
Lexical change and etymology: the study of words
Language, dialect, and standard
Dialect geography and dialectology
Language spread, link languages, and bilingualism
Convergence: dialectology beyond language boundaries
Pidgins, creoles, and related forms of language
Language death
Comparative method: establishing language relationship
Proto-world?: the question of long-distance genetic relationships
Linguistic palaeontology: historical linguistics, history, and prehistory
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