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Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

18.05.2023

Abbildungen

schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, Zeichnungen, schwarz-weiss, Tabellen, schwarz-weiss

Verlag

Taylor & Francis

Seitenzahl

410

Maße (L/B/H)

24,6/17,4/2,3 cm

Gewicht

720 g

Auflage

4. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-367-64557-1

Beschreibung

Rezension

Since its first publication in 1996, Trask's Historical Linguistics has been the resource for teaching historical linguistics. It's great to have a new edition, carefully updated and revised by language change expert McColl Millar, so that future generations can also work with this gem of a textbook!

Professor Alexander Bergs, Osnabrück University, Germany

Trask's Historical Linguistics is that rare thing: a wide-ranging textbook for both undergraduates and postgraduates that is not only as an authoritative introduction to the topic but also offers new insights into major research problems. Robert McColl Millar's latest revision is a tour-de-force of clear, up-to-date and indeed inspirational exposition. It can be heartily recommended.

Jeremy J. Smith, University of Glasgow, Scotland

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

18.05.2023

Abbildungen

schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, Zeichnungen, schwarz-weiss, Tabellen, schwarz-weiss

Verlag

Taylor & Francis

Seitenzahl

410

Maße (L/B/H)

24,6/17,4/2,3 cm

Gewicht

720 g

Auflage

4. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-367-64557-1

Herstelleradresse

Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: Trask's Historical Linguistics

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    To the reader

    To the teacher

    Acknowledgements

    Abbreviations

    1. The fact of language change

    1.1 Irregardless

    1.2 English then and now

    1.3 Attitudes to language change

    1.4 The inevitability of change

    Case-study: kind regards

    Further reading

    Exercises

    2. Lexical and semantic change

    2.1 Borrowing

    2.2 Phonological treatment of loans

    2.3 Morphological treatment of loans

    2.4 Formation of new words

    2.5 Change in word-meaning

    Case study: nice

    Further reading

    Exercises

    3. Phonological change 1: Change in pronunciation

    3.1 The phonetic basis of phonological change

    3.2 Assimilation and dissimilation

    3.3 Lenition and fortition

    3.4 Addition and removal of phonetic features

    3.5 Vowels and syllable structure

    3.6 Whole-segment processes

    3.7 The regularity issue: a first look

    Case study: Germanic */xw/ in the present-day dialects

    3.8 Summary

    Further reading

    Exercises

    4. Phonological change II: Change in phonological systems

    4.1 Conditioning and rephonologization

    4.2 Phonological space

    4.3 Chain shifts

    Case study: large scale change in the Germanic consonant system - Grimm's Law and Verner's Law

    4.4 Summary

    Further reading

    Exercises

    5. Morphological change

    5.1 Reanalysis

    5.2 Analogy and levelling

    5.3 Universal principles of analogy

    5.4 Morphologization

    5.5 Morphologization of phonological rules

    5.6 Change in morphological type

    Case study: The evolution of the definite article from the demonstrative paradigm in English

    Further reading

    Exercises

    6. Syntactic change

    6.1 Reanalysis of surface structure

    6.2 Shift of markedness

    6.3 Grammaticalization

    6.4 Typological harmony

    6.5 Syntactic change as restructuring of grammars

    Case study: the rise of ergativity

    Further reading

    Exercises

    7. Relatedness between languages

    7.1 The origin of dialects

    7.2 Dialect geography

    7.4 Tree model and wave model

    7.5 The language families of the world

    Case study: A Martian's view on the Germanic language family

    Further reading

    Exercises

    8. The comparative method

    8.1 Systematic correspondences

    8.2 Comparative reconstruction

    8.3 Pitfalls and limitations

    8.4 The Neogrammarian Hypothesis

    8.5 Semantic reconstruction

    8.6 The use of typology and universals

    8.7 Reconstructing grammar

    8.8 The reality of proto-languages

    Case study: A reconstruction too far?

    Further reading

    Exercises

    9. Internal Reconstruction

    9.1 A first look at the internal method

    9.2 Alternations and internal reconstruction

    9.3 Internal reconstruction of grammar and lexicon

    Case study: The laryngeal theory of PIE

    Further reading

    Exercises

    10. The origin and propagation of change

    10.1 The Saussurean paradox

    10.2 Variation and social stratification

    10.3 Variation as the vehicle of change

    10.4 Lexical diffusion

    10.5 Near-mergers

    Case study: historical sociolinguistics

    Further reading

    Exercises

    11. Social and historical pressures upon language

    11.1 Linguistic contact

    11.2 Linguistic areas

    11.3 Language birth: pidgins and creoles

    11.4 Language planning

    11.5 Language death

    Case study: the genesis and development of American and New Zealand English

    Further reading

    Exercises

    12. Language and pre-history

    12.1 Introduction

    12.2 Linguistic palaeontology

    12.3 Links with archaeology

    12.4 Statistical methods

    Case study: Greenberg's mass comparison

    Further reading

    Exercises

    Appendix: The Swadesh 200-word list

    References

    Index