Perspectives on Historical Linguistics

Perspectives on Historical Linguistics
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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages : 393
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ISBN-10 : 9789027280688
ISBN-13 : 9027280681
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Book Synopsis Perspectives on Historical Linguistics by : Winfred P. Lehmann

Download or read book Perspectives on Historical Linguistics written by Winfred P. Lehmann and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents seven extensive essays by specialists in their respective fields of historical linguistics. The first essay after the Introduction states the principles presented in Directions for Historical Linguistics (1968) and assesses the progress made since then towards constructing a general theory of language change. Like the following essays on phonology and morphology, it poses new questions that have arisen in the increasingly ambitious research. Historical attention to discourse, the topic of the next essay, is virtually new, though it too finds predecessors among philologists who devoted themselves to texts. Finally, two essays treat etymology, one concentrating on the rigorously investigated Romance field, the other on Indo-European, especially on new insights prompted by attention to Hittite.


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