TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schendl,Herbert
TI  - Historical linguistics
SN  - 0194372383
AV  - P140 .S34 2001
U1  - 417.7 21
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Historical linguistics
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; SECTION 1; Survey; 1. Language change as a matter of fact; Attitudes to language change; Language state and process; The aims and scope of historical linguistics; 2. Reconstructing the past: Data and evidence; The data of historical linguistics; The written evidence; Sources of evidence; Comparing and reconstructing languages; Correspondences between languages; Laws of change; Internal reconstruction; 3. Vocabulary change; Coining new words; Changes of meaning; Why do word meanings change?; 4. Grammatical change; Morphological change; Syntactic change; 5. Sound change; How sounds are produced; Phonetic change; Phonemic change; 6. Language contact; Borrowing from other languages; Convergence and linguistic areas; Language birth: pidgins and creoles; Language death; 7. How and why do languages change?; Functional explanations; Psycholinguistic explanations: Language acquisition; Sociolinguistic explanations; The origin and spread of changes; 8. Postscript: Further developments; Socio-historical linguistics and historical pragmatics; Evolutionary linguistics; Standardisation and language planning; Conclusion; SECTION 2; Readings; SECTION 3; References; SECTION 4; Glossary
N2  - This book provides an accessible introduction to anyone interested in the history of the English language. It outlines the major issues and terminology used in the field of Historical Linguistics, a required part of most university-level language and linguistics courses, and creates an opening into the field for the new reader
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