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Historical Linguistics: Theory and Method

ISBN: 978-0-631-19661-7
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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

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