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Recurring patterns in tone (chain) shift. [PDF]

open access: yesLinguist Vanguard
Yang C, Pittayaporn P, Kirby J.
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Enduring constraints on grammar revealed by Bayesian spatiophylogenetic analyses. [PDF]

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Verkerk A   +7 more
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LINGUISTIC CHANGE AND HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS

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Historical Linguistics

2020
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 ...
Freek Van de Velde, Peter Petré
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Historical Linguistics

2013
Historical linguistics is a discipline with strong interdisciplinary connections to sociocultural anthropology, ethnohistory, and archaeology. While the study of language change and etymology can be traced back to ancient societies in the Mediterranean, the Middle East, and Asia, a number of important methodological approaches emerged in the late 18th ...
Don Ringe, Joseph F. Eska
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Historical linguistics

2018
This chapter explains the insights and techniques of historical linguistics, the study of how language changes over time. We begin with a brief explanation of the value of historical linguistics before going on in Section 10.2 to describe the background to its development.
Culpeper, Jonathan, McIntyre, Dan
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Linguistic history and historical linguistics

Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 2018
AbstractThis invited response to a piece by LaPolla, published in issue 39/2 ofLTBA, addresses both LaPolla’s misrepresentations of the history of linguistics and his flawed understanding of historical linguistics. The history of linguistic thought with regard to the Tibeto-Burman or Trans-Himalayan language family vs. the Indo-Chinese or “Sino-Tibetan”
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Bloomfield and historical linguistics

Historiographia Linguistica, 1987
Summary Bloomfield worked in both historical and synchronic linguistics. To the former, he contributed: (1) a large amount of work in specific fields; (2) scrutiny of the nature of historical linguistic investigation; and (3) an analysis of the phenomenon of linguistic change.
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