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The Routledge Handbook of Historical 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 ...
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African linguistics across the disciplines [PDF]
Since the hiring of its first Africanist linguist Carleton Hodge in 1964, Indiana University’s Department of Linguistics has had a strong and continuing presence in the study of African languages and linguistics through the work of its faculty and of its
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Preterit Expansion and Perfect Demise in Porteño Spanish and Beyond [PDF]
In this book, Guro Nore Fløgstad shows how the Preterit category has expanded in Porteño Spanish, and sheds new light on the outcome of the competition between Perfects and Preterits in Romance, and beyond.
Nore Fløgstad, Guro
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Phylogenetic trees: Grammar versus vocabulary
Traditionally, genealogical relationships between languages are established on the basis of phonetic and lexical data. The question whether genealogical relationships among languages can be defined based on grammatical data remains unanswered.
Vladimir N. Polyakov +2 more
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This textbook serves a dual purpose. It is, first, a comprehensive introduction to historical linguistics, intended for both undergraduate and graduate students who have taken, at the least, an introductory course in linguistics. Secondly, unlike many such textbooks, this one is based in the theoretical framework of Cognitive Linguistics, a semantics ...
Petré, Peter, Van de Velde, Freek
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Methods in Contemporary Linguistics [PDF]
The present volume is a broad overview of methods and methodologies in linguistics, illustrated with examples from concrete research. It collects insights gained from a broad range of linguistic sub-disciplines, ranging from core disciplines to topics in
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Linguistics in applied linguistics : a historical overview
This paper looks at some of the underlying reasons which might explain the uncertainty surrounding applied linguistics as an academic enquiry. The opening section traces the emergence of the field through its professional associations and publications ...
Tony Harris
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Historical Linguistics and Cognitive Science
In this paper we investigate possible links between historical linguistics and cognitive science, or theory of the mind. Our primary goal is to demonstrate that historically documented processes of a certain type, i.e.
Philip Baldi, Paola Eulalia Dussias
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Between Fact and Fantasy: Early Sources on Oirat Historical Dialectology
The article presents the results of a linguistic analysis of three early sources on Oirat historical dialectology, Rashīd al-Dīn’s Jāmiʿ al-Tawārīkh (Compendium of Chronicles, completed between 1306 and 1311) and the Mongol chronicles Sir-a tuγuǰi ...
Pavel O. Rykin
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Issues in Austronesian Historical Linguistics [PDF]
This is the first JSEALS special publication since JSEALS became a University of Hawai‘i Press publication as of January 2017. The goal of JSEALS special publications is to share collections of linguistics articles, such as select papers from conferences
Yukinori Kimoto +4 more
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