Language history, language change, and language relationship : an introduction to historical and comparative linguistics /


Hans Henrich Hock, Brian D. Joseph.
Bok Engelsk 2019
Omfang
x, 565 pages : : illustrations, maps ;
Utgave
3rd revised edition.
Opplysninger
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
Emner
Dewey
ISBN
9783110609691
ISBN(galt)

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