The Handbook of Historical Linguistics
Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
1. Auflage Dezember 2002
904 Seiten, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
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
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.
handbook in several positive senses, beginning with the
introduction's bold tackling of foundational issues. While many
chapters offer the expected compact overviews of familiar topics,
others are, we hope, destined to become influential as needed lucid
statements on particular issues... and thought-provoking, original
contributions... The value of The Handbook of Historical
Linguistics is multifaceted; its influence will be far-reaching
and long-lasting." Journal of Linguistics
"This volume restores the field of general historical
linguistics to its rightful place as an equal partner to synchronic
linguistics. The editors have assembled a remarkable array of
contributors who can introduce readers to the professional
standards of scholarship and scientific reasoning that characterize
the field." William Labov, University of
Pennsylvania
"An authoritative collection, by a stellar group of
contributors, that presents historical linguistics as it really is
- a multifaceted study that is both a branch of general
linguistics and a field in its own right. No other survey covers
the territory half so well." Jay Jasanoff, Harvard
University
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.
