Historical Linguistics: Theory and MethodISBN: 978-0-631-19661-7
Hardcover
288 pages
February 2007, Wiley-Blackwell
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Introduction.
Part I: “Language” and “Language Change”: Preliminaries.
1. What is “Language”?.
2. Linguistic Artifacts: Philology.
3. What is a “Descent” Relationship?.
Part II: Phonological Change.
4. Galilean-Style Phonology.
5. The Traditional Approach.
6. In-Depth Consideration of Selected Issues.
7. The Regularity of Sound Change.
Part III: Syntactic Change.
8. What is Syntactic Change?.
9. The Diachrony of Clitics: Phonology and Syntax.
Part IV: Reconstruction Methodology.
10. Reconstruction Methodology.
Part V: Concluding Remarks.
11. Synchronic and Diachronic Linguistics.
References.
Index