TY - BOOK AU - Crowley,Terry AU - Bowern,Claire TI - An introduction to historical linguistics SN - 9780195365542 (pbk.) AV - P140 .C76 2010 U1 - 417.7 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Oxford, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Historical linguistics N1 - 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 ER -