The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics
The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics by Claire Bowern and Bethwyn Evans
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0415527899 | 776 pages | PDF | 5 MB
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0415527899 | 776 pages | PDF | 5 MB
The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics provides a survey of the field covering the methods which underpin current work; models of language change; and the importance of historical linguistics for other subfields of linguistics and other disciplines.
Divided into five sections, the volume encompass a wide range of approaches and addresses issues in the following areas:
historical perspectives
methods and models
language change
interfaces
regional summaries
Each of the thirty-two chapters is written by a specialist in the field and provides: a introduction to the subject; an analysis of the relationship between the diachronic and synchronic study of the topic; an overview of the main current and critical trends; and examples from primary data. The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics is essential reading for researchers and postgraduate students working in this area.