The Handbook of Historical Linguistics

The Handbook of Historical Linguistics
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 904
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ISBN-10 : 9780470756331
ISBN-13 : 0470756330
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Book Synopsis The Handbook of Historical Linguistics by : Brian Joseph

Download or read book The Handbook of Historical Linguistics written by Brian Joseph and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 most directly concerned with language change as well as past language states. 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


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