JOSEPH BRIAN D / JANDA RICHARD D

Broschiertes Buch

The Handbook of Historical Linguistics

Beschreibung

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. In its introduction and 25 chapters, written by leading specialists in the field, this volume achieves two main goals. It covers the most important methods of historical linguistics including comparative reconstruction and internal reconstruction, reliable ways of determining language relatedness, and contemporary approaches to dialectological investigation. It also presents sophisticated overviews of the principles that emerge from the in-depth study of phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic change, including grammaticalization, and offers wide-ranging explorations of the major factors at work in the causation of change. The book begins with an extensive and uniquely comprehensive introduction by the editors that places the study of historical linguistics in its proper context both within the field of linguistics itself and within the historical sciences more generally. The well-conceived and lucidly written articles in this volume, supplemented with an extensive bibliography and detailed indexes, make The Handbook of Historical Linguistics an indispensable resource for anyone with an interest in history and/or language.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 881
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 48mm
• Gewicht: 1526g
• ISBN-13: 9781405127479
• ISBN-10: 1405127473
• Artikelnr.: 21794232

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

"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, Universityof Pennsylvania

"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