Handbook of Historical Linguistics, Volume II

Handbook of Historical Linguistics, Volume II

Janda, Richard D.; Joseph, Brian D.; Vance, Barbara S.

John Wiley and Sons Ltd

09/2020

704

Dura

Inglês

9781118732212

15 a 20 dias

1372

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About the Editors ix

About the Contributors xi

1 Introduction: Some Things Old, Some Renewed, Some on Borrowing - Here, Previewed 1
Richard D. Janda, Brian D. Joseph, and Barbara S. Vance

Part I Change Within and Across Core Components of Language 5

2 The Expanding Universe of the Study of Sound Change 7
Frans Hinskens

3 Tonogenesis: Register > Tones > Tone Realignment 47
Graham Thurgood

4 Historical Morphology - Overview and Update 63
Brian D. Joseph

5 Theory and Data in Historical Syntax: A Case Study from Old French 88
Barbara S. Vance

Part II On the Variety of Methods and Foci Available for the Study of Language Change 123

6 Dialect Convergence and the Formation of New Dialects 125
Peter Trudgill

7 Formal Syntax as a Phylogenetic Method 145
Cristina Guardiano, Giuseppe Longobardi, Guido Cordoni, and Paola Crisma

8 Typological Approaches and Historical Linguistics 183
Na'ama Pat-El

9 Inferring Linguistic Change from a Permanently Closed Historical Corpus 196
Kazuhiko Yoshida

10 Studying Language Change in the Present, with Special Reference to English 214
Laurie Bauer

11 Bayesian Phylolinguistics 226
Simon J. Greenhill, Paul Heggarty, and Russell D. Gray

12 Eliciting Evidence of Relatedness and Change: Fieldwork-Based Historical Linguistics 254
Edward J. Vajda

13 Using Large Recent Corpora to Study Language Change 272
Terttu Nevalainen

Part III Causation and Linguistic Diachrony: What Starts, Shoves, Shifts, Shapes, and/or Spreads Language Change? 291

14 The Phonetics of Sound Change 293
Alan C. L. Yu

15 What Role Do Iconicity and Analogy Play in Grammaticalization? 314
Olga Fischer

16 Spread across the Lexicon: Frequency, Borrowing, Analogy, and Homophones 343
Betty S. Phillips

17 Language Acquisition, Microcues, Parameters, and Morphosyntactic Change 357
Marit Westergaard

18 Theorizing Language Contact: From Synchrony to Diachrony 375
Yaron Matras

Part IV Changing Perspectives in the Study of Linguistic Diachrony 393

19 Genetic Creolistics as Part of Evolutionary Linguistics 395
Salikoko S. Mufwene

20 Historical Change in American Sign Language 423
Ted Supalla, Fanny Limousin, and Betsy Hicks McDonald

21 Language Change in Language Obsolescence 447
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

22 Narrative Historical Linguistics: Linguistic Evidence for Human (Pre)history 468
Malcolm Ross

23 A Comparative Evolutionary Approach to the Origins and Evolution of Cognition and of Language 500
Monica Tamariz

24 Perturbations, Practices, Predictions, and Postludes in a Bioheuristic Historical Linguistics 523
Richard D. Janda

Subject Index 651

Language Index 677

Name Index 685
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linguistics; language; word origins; dialectology; analogy; syntax; historical linguistics; sound study; dialect; diachrony; phonetics; grammar; evolutionary linguistics; tonogenesis; lexicon; literacy; etymology; translation; communication