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Perspectives on Historical Linguistics
Language, 19851. Prefatory note 2. Table of contents 3. Charts, figures and tables 4. Abbreviations 5. 1. Introduction: diachronic linguistics (by Lehmann, Winfred P.) 6. 2. Building on empirical foundations (by Labov, William) 7. 3. A semiotic model of diachronic process phonology (by Dressler, Wolfgang U.) 8. 4.
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Bloomfield and historical linguistics
Historiographia Linguistica, 1987Summary 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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Typology and Historical Linguistics
2017I discuss the relation between language typology and historical linguistics. After briefly illustrating mutual influence in the course of the development of the two disciplines, I discuss some classic topics at the interface between language typology and historical-comparative linguistics, such as language reconstruction.
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Historical Cognitive Linguistics
2010This volume addresses aspects of language change using the semantics-based theory of Cognitive Linguistics, and primarily focuses on the lexicon and metaphor, the semantics of syntax, and language evolution.
Margaret E. Winters +2 more
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Register in historical linguistics
Register Studies, 2019AbstractMerja Kytö is Professor of English Language at Uppsala University. In this article, she provides a detailed accounting of the role of register in research on the historical development of language. Her substantial body of work has focused on both the historical development of specific registers, as well as how historical change has been ...
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1977
Historical Linguistics is concerned with the process of language change through time. It investigates how and why the language of individuals, a social group or a whole 'speech community' develops in respect of its pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar.
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Historical Linguistics is concerned with the process of language change through time. It investigates how and why the language of individuals, a social group or a whole 'speech community' develops in respect of its pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar.
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Historical Linguistics: Classification
2018Many societies in pre-1800 Africa depended on orality both for communication and for record keeping. Historians of Africa, among other ways of dealing with this issue, treat languages as archives and apply what is sometimes called the “words and things” approach.
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Historical Linguistics: An Introduction
American Anthropologist, 2001Historical Linguistics: An Introduction. Lyle Campbell. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1999. 396 pp.
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A Pipeline for Computational Historical Linguistics
Language Dynamics and Change, 2011AbstractThere are many parallels between historical linguistics and molecular phylogenetics. In this paper we describe an algorithmic pipeline that mimics, as closely as possible, the traditional workflow of language reconstruction known as the comparative method.
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2014
Preface, Charles Jones parameters of syntactic change - a notational view, John Anderson the primacy of history - change and metatheory at the begining of the 1990's, Raimo Antilla typology and reconstruction, Bernard Comrie on the phonetic basis of phonological change, Patricia Donegan contact settings - doubts about dichotomy internally and ...
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Preface, Charles Jones parameters of syntactic change - a notational view, John Anderson the primacy of history - change and metatheory at the begining of the 1990's, Raimo Antilla typology and reconstruction, Bernard Comrie on the phonetic basis of phonological change, Patricia Donegan contact settings - doubts about dichotomy internally and ...
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