Joseph / Janda The Handbook of Historical Linguistics

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-75633-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 904 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics

The Handbook of Historical Linguistics provides a detailedaccount of the numerous issues, methods, and results thatcharacterize current work in historical linguistics, the area oflinguistics most directly concerned with language change as well aspast language states.
* Contains an extensive introduction that places the study ofhistorical linguistics in its proper context within linguistics andthe historical sciences in general
* Covers the methodology of historical linguistics and presentssophisticated overviews of the principles governing phonological,morphological, syntactic, and semantic change
* Includes contributions from the leading specialists in thefield

Autoren/Hrsg.

Joseph, Brian

Janda, Richard

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Introduction:.
On Language, Change, and Language Change - Or, Of History,Linguistics, and Historical Linguistics: 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 ofKansas.
2. On the Limits of the Comparative Method: S.P. Harrison,University of Western Australia.
3. Internal Reconstruction: Don Ringe, University ofPennsylvania.
4. How to Show Languages are Related: Methods for DistantGenetic Relationship: Lyle Campbell, University of Canterbury, NewZealand.
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, ConcordiaUniversity.
8. Variationist Approaches to Phonological Change: Gregory R.Guy, York University.
9. "Phonologization" as the Start ofDephoneticization - Or, On Sound-Change and its Aftermath: OfExtension, Generalization, Lexicalization, and Morphologization:Richard D. Janda, The Ohio State University.
Part IV: Morphological and Lexical Change: .
10. Analogy: The Warp and Woof of Cognition: Raimo Anttila,University of California, Los Angeles.
11. Analogical Change: Hans Henrich Hock, University ofIllinois, Urbana-Champaign.
12. Naturalness and Morphological Change: Wolfgang U. Dressler,Vienna University.
13. Morphologization from Syntax: Brian D. Joseph, The OhioState University.
Part V: Syntactic Change: .
14. Grammatical Approaches to Syntactic Change: David Lightfoot,Georgetown University.
15. Variationist Approaches to Syntactic Change: Susan Pintzuk,University of York.
16. Cross-linguistic Perspectives on Syntactic Change: Alice C.Harris, Vanderbilt University.
17. Functional Perspectives on Syntactic Change: MarianneMithun, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Part VI: Pragmatico-Semantic Change:.
18. Grammaticalization: Bernd Heine, University of Cologne.
19. Mechanisms of Change in Grammaticization: The Role ofFrequency: Joan Bybee, University of New Mexico.
20. Constructions in Grammaticalization: Elizabeth ClossTraugott, Stanford University.
21. An Approach to Semantic Change: Benjamin W. Fortson, IV.
Part VII: Explaining Linguistic Change:.
22. Phonetics and Historical Phonology: John J. Ohala,University of California, Berkeley.
23. Contact as a Source of Language Change: Sarah Grey Thomason,University of Pittsburgh.
24. Dialectology and Linguistic Diffusion: Walt Wolfram &Natalie Schilling-Estes, North Carolina State University andGeorgetown University.
25. Psycholinguistic Perspectives on Linguistic Change: JeanAitchison, University of Oxford.
Bibliography.
Subject Index.
Name Index.
Language Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Brian D. Joseph is Professor of Linguistics and Kenneth E.Naylor Professor of South Slavic Linguistics at The Ohio StateUniversity. Within historical linguistics, his research focusesmainly on Indo-European languages. He has written and editednumerous books - including Language History, LanguageChange, and Language Relationship (with Hans H. Hock, 1996) andThe Synchrony and Diachrony of the Balkan Infinitive (1983)- and has published over 160 articles. He became editor ofthe journal Language in 2002.
Richard D. Janda is Senior Lecturer and Coordinator forUndergraduate Education in the Department of Linguistics at TheOhio State University. A specialist in both Germanic and Romancelinguistics, he has written widely not only on diachronic but alsoon synchronic issues in phonology, morphology, and morphosyntax, aswell as on historical linguistics in general. His more than 70publications focus on drawing broader implications from theapplication of theory to specific problems of structure, function,variation, and change in individual languages.