Download or read book Papers from the 4th International Conference on Historical Linguistics written by Elizabeth Closs Traugott and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The studies in this volume are revised versions of a selection from the papers presented at the Fourth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, held at Stanford University on 26 30 March 1979. Papers at this conference, and in this volume, treat aspects of all current topics in historical linguistics, including topics that are only recently considered relevant, such as acquisition, structure, and language use.