[Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics 01] • The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics by Bowern, Claire -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Half Title Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of figures List of tables List of contributors Acknowledgements Editors' acknowledgements Editors' introduction: foundations of the new historical linguistics Part I Overviews

Part II Methods and models

4 The Comparative Method 5 The Comparative Method: theoretical issues 6 Trees, waves and linkages: models of language diversification 7 Language phylogenies 8 Diachronic stability and typology

Part III Language change

9 Sound change 10 Phonological changes 11 Morphological change 12 Morphological reconstruction 13 Functional syntax and language change 14 Generative syntax and language change 15 Syntax and syntactic reconstruction 16 Lexical semantic change and semantic reconstruction 17 Formal semantics/pragmatics and language change 18 Discourse 19 Etymology 20 Sign languages in their historical context 21 Language acquisition and language change 22 Social dimensions of language change 23 Language use, cognitive processes and linguistic change 24 Contact-induced language change 25 Language attrition and language change

Part IV Interfaces

Part V Regional summaries

30 Indo-European: methods and problems 31 The Austronesian language family 32 The Austroasiatic language phylum: a typology of phonological restructuring 33 Pama-Nyungan 34 The Pacific Northwest linguistic area: historical perspectives

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