The Handbook Of Historical Linguistics Volume 1 Brian D Joseph by Brian D Joseph, Richard D. Janda 9780470756393, 9780631195719, 047075639X, 0631195718 instant download after payment.

The Handbook of Historical Linguistics provides a detailed account of the numerous issues, methods, and results that characterize current work in historical linguistics, the area of linguistics concerned with language change as well as past language states.

• Provides a comprehensive and current account of the numerous issues, methods, and results that characterize historical linguistics.
  
• Contains an extensive introduction that places the study of historical linguistics in its proper context within linguistics and the historical sciences in general.
  
• Covers the methodology of historical linguistics and presents sophisticated overviews of the principles governing phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic change.
  
• Includes contributions from the leading specialists in the field.

Content:
Chapter 1 Introduction Contents (pages 1–2):
Chapter 1 The Comparative Method (pages 199–212): Robert L. Rankin
Chapter 2 On the Limits of the Comparative Method (pages 213–243): S. P. Harrison
Chapter 3 Internal Reconstruction (pages 243–261): Don Ringe
Chapter 4 How to Show Languages are Related: Methods for Distant Genetic Relationship (pages 262–282): Lyle Campbell
Chapter 5 Diversity and Stability in Language (pages 283–310): Johanna Nichols
Chapter 6 The Phonological Basis of Sound Change (pages 311–342): Paul Kiparsky
Chapter 7 Neogrammarian Sound Change (pages 343–368): Mark Hale
Chapter 8 Variationist Approaches to Phonological Change (pages 369–400): Gregory R. Guy
Chapter 9 “Phonologization” as the Start of Dephoneticization — Or, On Sound Change and its Aftermath: Of Extension, Generalization, Lexicalization, and Morphologization (pages 401–422): Richard D. Janda
Chapter 10 Analogy: The Warp and Woof of Cognition (pages 423–440): Raimo Anttila
Chapter 11 Analogical Change (pages 441–460): Hans Henrich Hock
Chapter 12 Naturalness and Morphological Change (pages 461–471): Wolfgang U. Dressler
Chapter 13 Morphologization from Syntax (pages 472–492): Brian D. Joseph
Chapter 14 Grammat