An introduction to historical linguistics /

Crowley, Terry.

An introduction to historical linguistics / Terry Crowley and Claire Bowern. - 4th ed. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010. - xxxii, 376 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-367) and index.

Types of sound change -- Expressing sound changes -- Phonetic and phonemic change -- The comparative method (1): procedures -- Determining relatedness -- Internal reconstruction -- Computational and statistical methods -- The comparative method (2): history and challenges -- Morphological change -- Semantic and lexical change -- Syntactic change -- Observing language
.change -- Language contact -- Cultural reconstruction

9780195365542 (pbk.)

2008048617


Historical linguistics.

P140 / .C76 2010

417.7 / CTI

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