Historical Linguistics An Introduction Lyle Campbell English

List of Tables; List of Figures and Maps; Preface; Acknowledgements; Phonetic Symbols and Conventions; Phonetic Symbols Chart
Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 Introduction
1.2 What is Historical Linguistics About?
1.3 Kinds of Linguistic Changes: An English Example
1.4 Exercises
Chapter 2: Sound Change
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Kinds of Sound Change
2.3 Non-phonemic (Allophonic) Changes
2.4 Phonemic Changes
2.5 Sporadic Changes
2.6 General Kinds of Sound Changes
2.7 Kinds of Common Sound Changes
2.8 Relative Chronology
2.9 Chain Shifts
Chapter 3: Loanwords (Borrowing)
3.1 Introduction
3.2 What is a Loanword?
3.3 How do Words get Borrowed?
3.4 How do Words get Borrowed?
3.5 How do we Identify Loanwords and Determine the Direction of Borrowing?
3.6 Loans as Clues to Linguistic Changes in the Past
3.7 Calques (Loan Translations, Semantic Loans)
3.8 Emphatic Foreignization
3.9 Exercises
Chapter 4: Analogical Change
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Proportional Analogy
4.3 Analogical Levelling
4.4 Analogical Extension
4.5 The Relationship between Analogy and Sound Change
4.6 Immediate and Non-immediate Analogical Models
4.7 Other Kinds of Analogy
4.8 Exercises
Chapter 5: Lexical Change
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Lexical Change and New Words
5.3 Obsolescence and Loss of Vocabulary
5.4 Suppletion
5.5 Exercises
6 Chapter 6. Semantic change
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Traditional Notions of Semantic Change
6.3 Attempts to Explain Semantic Change
6.4 Exercises
Chapter 7: The Comparative Method and Linguistic Reconstruction
7.1 Introduction
7.2 The Comparative Method Up Close and Personal
7.3 A Case Study
7.4 Indo-European and the Regularity of Sound Change
7.5 Basic Assumptions of the Comparative Method
7.6 How Realistic are Reconstructed Proto-languages?
7.7 Temporal Limitations to the Comparative Method
7.9 Exercises
Chapter 8: Internal Reconstruction
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Internal Reconstruction Illustrated
8.3 Relative Chronology
8.4 The Limitations of Internal Reconstruction
8.5 Internal Reconstruction and the Comparative Method
8.6 Exercises
Chapter 9: Linguistic Classification
9.1 Introduction
9.2 The World’s Language Families
9.3 Terminology
9.4 How to Draw Family Trees: Subgrouping
9.5 Models of Language Change
9.6 Sociolinguistics and Language Change
9.7 Exercises 185
Chapter 10: Language Contact
10.1 Introduction
10.2 What Can be Borrowed besides just Words?
10.3 Areal Linguistics
10.4 Pidgins and Creoles
10.5 Mixed Languages
10.6 Endangered Languages and Linguistic Change
Chapter 11: Change in Syntactic and Morphology
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Mechanisms of Syntactic Change
11.3 Generative Approaches
11.4 Grammaticalization
11.5 Reconstruction of Morphology and Syntax
11.6 Exercises
Chapter 12: Explanation of Language Change
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Early Theories
12.3 Internal and External Causes
12.4 Interaction of Causal Factors
12.5 One Form, One Meaning
12.5 Explanation and Prediction
Chapter 13: Distant Genetic Relationship
13.1 Introduction
13.2 Lexical Comparison
13.3 Sound Correspondences
13.4 Grammatical Evidence
13.5 Borrowing
13.6 Semantic Constraints
13.7 Onomatopoeia
13.8 Nursery Forms
13.9 Short Forms and Unmatched Segments
13.10 Chance Similarities
13.11 Sound–Meaning Isomorphism
13.12 Only Linguistic Evidence
13.13 Erroneous Morphological Analysis
13.14 Non-cognates
13.15 Spurious Forms
13.16 Areal Linguistics and Proposals of Distant Genetic Relationship
13.17 Methodological Wrap-up
13.18 Some Examples of Long-range Proposals
13.19 Exercises
Chapter 14: Writing and Philology: The Role of Written Records
14.1 Introduction
14.2 Writing and the History of Writing Systems
14.3 Philology
14.4 The Role of Writing
14.5 Exercises
Chapter 15: Linguistic Prehistory
15.1 Introduction
15.2 Indo-European Linguistic Prehistory
15.3 The Methods of Linguistic Prehistory
15.4 Limitations and Cautions
15.5 Exercises
Chapter 16: Quantitative Approaches to Historical Linguistics and Technical Tools
16.1 Introduction
16.2 Glottochronology (Lexicostatistics)
16.3 Word Lists, Stability, and Replacement Rates
16.4 Other Recent Quantitative Approaches
16.5 Corpus linguistics
16.6 Conclusions
Bibliography; Name Index; Subject Index; Language Index