The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics (Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics)

__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. Table of ContentsContributorsAcknowledgementsEditors' Introduction: Foundations of the new historical linguistics1 Claire Bowern and Bethwyn EvansPart 1 OverviewsLineage and the constructive imagination: the birth of historical linguisticsRoger LassNew perspectives in historical linguisticsPaul KiparskyCompositionality and changeNigel Vincent Part 2 Methods and models The Comparative MethodMichael WeissThe Comparative Method: theoretical issuesMark HaleTrees, waves and linkages: models of language diversificationAlexandre FrancoisLanguage phylogeniesMichael DunnDiachronic stability and typologySoren Wichmann Part 3 Language change The Sound changeAndrew GarrettPhonological changesSilke HamannMorphological changeStephen AndersonMorphological reconstructionHarold KochFunctional syntax and language changeZigmunt FrajzyngierGenerative syntax and language changeElly van GelderenSyntax and Syntactic reconstructionJohanna BarddalLexical semantic change and semantic reconstructionMatthias UrbanFormal semantics/pragmatics and language changeAshwini DeoDiscourseAlexandra D'Arcy EtymologyRobert MailhammerSign languages in their historical contextSusan D. FisherLanguage acquisition and language changeJames N. StanfordSocial dimensions of language changeLev Michael Language use, cognitive processes and linguistic changeJoan Bybee and Clayton BecknerContact-induced language changeChristopher LucasLanguage attrition and language changeJane SimpsonPart 4 Interfaces27 Demographic correlates of language diversitySimon J. Greenhill28 Historical linguistics and socio-cultural reconstructionPatience Epps29 Prehistory through language and archaeologyPaul Heggarty 30 Historical linguistics and molecular anthropologyBrigitte Pakendorf Part 5 Regional SummariesIndo-European: methods and problemsBenjamin W. Fortson IVAustronesianRitsuko KikusawaThe Austro-Asiatic language phylum: a typology of phonological restructuringPaul Sidwell Pama-NyunganLuisa Miceli The Pacific Northwest lingusitic area: historical perspectivesSarah G. Thomason 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. Chapter 28 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9781315794013.ch28 "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 perspectivesmethods and modelslanguage changeinterfacesregional summariesEach 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"-- Provided by publisher "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[n] 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" -- Provided by publisher