An edition of Historical linguistics (1993)

Historical linguistics

problems and perspectives

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An edition of Historical linguistics (1993)

Historical linguistics

problems and perspectives

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Longman, Routledge
Language
English
Pages
405

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Historical linguistics: problems and perspectives
1993, Longman, Routledge
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Table of Contents

Parameters of syntactic change / John Anderson
Change and metatheory at the beginning of the 1990s : the primacy of history / Raimo Anttila
Typology and reconstruction / Bernard Comrie
On the phonetic basis of phonological change / Patricia Donegan
Internally and externally motivated change in language contact settings / Nancy C. Dorian
How real(ist) are reconstructions? / Roger Lass
Why UG needs a learning theory : triggering verb movement / David Lightfoot
On the social origins of language change / James Milroy
The phonetics of sound change / John Ohala
Nicaraguan English in history / Wayne O'Neil
Language change as language improvement / Theo Vennemann
Bidirectional diffusion in sound change / William S-Y Wang and Chinfa Lien.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
London, New York
Series
Longman linguistics library

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
417/.7
Library of Congress
P140 .H585 1993, , P140 .H585 2013

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, 405 p. ;
Number of pages
405

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1707162M
Internet Archive
historicallingui0000unse
ISBN 10
0582060869, 0582060850
LCCN
92008632
OCLC/WorldCat
874171816, 25675195
Library Thing
995971
Goodreads
4605082

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