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_bCAM
100 _aCampbell Lyle
245 _aHistorical Linguistics
_bAn Introduction
_cLyle Campbell
_hEnglish
250 _a4th ed
_b2020
260 _aUK
_bEdinburgh Univesrsity Press
_c2020
300 _avi-498 p. ;
_bsoft bound
_c17*24 cm
505 _aList 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
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