Brian D. Joseph / Richard D. Janda (eds.)

The Handbook of Historical Linguistics

Ed. by Richard D. Janda and Brian D. Joseph

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• 2nd ed.
• Seitenzahl: 912
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 253mm x 182mm x 55mm
• Gewicht: 1670g
• ISBN-13: 9780631195719
• ISBN-10: 0631195718
• Artikelnr.: 13587926

Autorenporträt

Brian D. Joseph is Professor of Linguistics and Kenneth E. Naylor Professor of South Slavic Linguistics at The Ohio State University. Within historical linguistics, his research focuses mainly on Indo-European languages. He has written and edited numerous books - including Language History, Language Change, and Language Relationship (with Hans H. Hock, 1996) and The Synchrony and Diachrony of the Balkan Infinitive (1983) - and has published over 160 articles. He became editor of the journal Language in 2002. Richard D. Janda is Senior Lecturer and Coordinator for Undergraduate Education in the Department of Linguistics at The Ohio State University. A specialist in both Germanic and Romance linguistics, he has written widely not only on diachronic but also on synchronic issues in phonology, morphology, and morphosyntax, as well as on historical linguistics in general. His more than 70 publications focus on drawing broader implications from the application of theory to specific problems of structure, function, variation, and change in individual languages.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Introduction.

Part II: Methods for Studying Language Change.

Part III: Phonological Change.

Part IV: Morphological and Lexical Change.

Part V: Syntactic Change.

Part VI: Pragmatico-Semantic Change.

Part VII: Explaining Linguistic Change.

Bibliography.

Subject Index.

Name Index.

Language Index.

Rezensionen

"The Handbook of Historical Linguistics proves an atypicalhandbook in several positive senses, beginning with theintroduction's bold tackling of foundational issues. While manychapters offer the expected compact overviews of familiar topics,others are, we hope, destined to become influential as needed lucidstatements on particular issues... and thought-provoking, originalcontributions... The value of The Handbook of HistoricalLinguistics is multifaceted; its influence will be far-reachingand long-lasting." Journal of Linguistics

"This volume restores the field of general historicallinguistics to its rightful place as an equal partner to synchroniclinguistics. The editors have assembled a remarkable array ofcontributors who can introduce readers to the professionalstandards of scholarship and scientific reasoning that characterizethe field." William Labov, University ofPennsylvania

"An authoritative collection, by a stellar group ofcontributors, that presents historical linguistics as it really is- a multifaceted study that is both a branch of generallinguistics and a field in its own right. No other survey coversthe territory half so well." Jay Jasanoff, HarvardUniversity