An introduction to historical linguistics / Terry Crowley and Claire Bowern.

By: Crowley, TerryContributor(s): Bowern, Claire, 1977-Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010Edition: 4th edDescription: xxxii, 376 p. : ill. ; 24 cmContent type: ISBN: 9780195365542 (pbk.)Subject(s): Historical linguisticsDDC classification: 417.7 LOC classification: P140 | .C76 2010
Contents:
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
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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

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