Historical linguistics / Theodora Bynon
1977, 1st edition. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #425188
ISBN: 0521291887
Physical description; x, 301 pages. Notes; Bibliography: p. 281-294.
Contents; Cover -- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Key to symbols used -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part One Models of language development -- The neogrammarian model -- 1 Basic issues -- 2 The Indo-European languages -- 3 The neogrammarians -- 4 Sound change: the regularity principle -- 5 Analogy -- 6 The interdependence of sound change and analogy -- 7 Phonological reconstruction ('the comparative method') -- 8 Morphological and syntactic reconstruction -- 9 Lexical reconstruction -- 10 Relatedness of languages (genealogical, or genetic, relationship) -- The structuralist model of language evolution -- 1 Paradigmatic aspects of phonological change -- 2 Traces of past phonological change remaining in morphological structure: internal reconstruction -- 3 Changes affecting grammatical categories and their exponents -- 4 Limitations of structuralist methods applied to diachrony -- The transformational-generative model of language evolution -- 1 Phonological change -- 2 Syntactic change -- Part Two Language contact -- The neogrammarian postulates and dialect geography -- 1 The domain of a sound change -- 2 Lexical replacement: the failure of the 'phonetic etymologies' -- 3 Do dialect boundaries exist? -- 4 The wave theory -- 5 Mutual intelligibility -- 6 The social dimension -- The social motivation of language change -- 1 The social stratification of language: the evaluation of linguistic variables -- 2 The synchronic reflection of historical change -- 3 The mechanism of language change -- Contact between languages -- 1 Lexical borrowing -- 2 Grammatical borrowing -- 3 Pidgin and creole languages -- Language and prehistory -- 1 Classification and language history -- 2 Linguistic reconstruction and prehistory -- Further reading -- References -- Additional bibliography -- Index.
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