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For HISTLING<br>
John Benjamins Publishing announce the availability of two new works in
Historical Linguistics:<br>
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LANGUAGE HISTORY. An introduction<br>
Andrew L. Sihler<br>
University of Wisconsin, Madison<br>
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 191. xvi, 298 pp.<br>
US & Canada: 1 55619 968 6 / USD 70.00
(Hardcover) 1 55619 969 4 / USD 29.95
(Paperback)<br>
Rest of world: 90 272 3697 6 / NLG 140.00
(Hardcover) 90 272 3698 4 / NLG 60.00
(Paperback)<br>
[Textbook Examination copies available - contact customer service]<br>
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This classroom-tested volume aspires to be a brief but technically and
factually accurate exposition of linguistic description and history.
Whether studied as prime subject or as background information, it should
help students understand the assumptions and reasoning that underlie the
contents of their handbooks and etymological dictionaries.<br>
This book should be a useful guide for anyone unfamiliar with
(historical) linguistics who is studying the history of a language, and
also for those who are enrolled in courses devoted to reading texts in
old languages.<br>
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Contents: <br>
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Introduction<br>
1. Changes in Pronunciation: Assimilation; Dissimilation; Addition of
segments; Loss of segments; Metathesis; Other interactions between
segments; Changes in manner of articulation.<br>
2. Sound Laws: Merger; Primary split (conditioned merger); Secondary
split (phonolo-gization); Sound laws; Efficient causes of sound change;
Patternless changes.<br>
3. Analogy: Leveling analogy; Recomposition; Contamination; Portmanteau
words; Folk etymology; Morphological analogy; Hypercorrection.<br>
4. Semantic Change: Changes in the number of features; Pejoration and
melioration; Foregrounding of connotations; Figurative meanings
(metaphor, metonymy); Changes resulting from changes in the structure of
language, reinterpretation of ambiguities, and changes in the physical or
social environment; Calques; The etymological fallacy.<br>
5. Reconstruction: The comparative method; Reconstruction of features of
morphology, semantics, and syntax; Internal reconstruction; The
relationship between phonological restructuring and internal
reconstruction.<br>
6. External Aspects of Language: Language and dialect; Differentiation of
languages; Languages in contact.<br>
7. Written Records: The interpretation of written records;
Transliteration; Borrowing; Multiple values of symbols; Chronology;
Borrowing symbols; Comparative evidence; Typology, parallelism;
Statements by contemporaneous authorities; Poetry.<br>
Appendix: Phonetics the mechanisms of speech and the
classifications of speech sounds.<br>
Glossary; Glossary of Terms in German<br>
Bibliography<br>
Index<br>
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<br>
Historical Linguistics 1995, Volume 1.<br>
General issues and non-Germanic Languages.<br>
Selected papers from the 12th International Conference on
Historical<br>
Linguistics, Manchester, August 1995.<br>
John Charles SMITH (St. Catherine's College, Oxford) and Delia
BENTLEY (University of Manchester) (eds.)<br>
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 161<br>
90 272 3666 6 / NLG 200.00 (Hardcover)<br>
1 55619 877 9 / USD 100.00 (Hardcover)<br>
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This volume contains papers on general issues of language change, as
well<br>
as specific studies of non-Germanic languages, including Romance,<br>
Slavonic, Japanese, Australian languages, and early Indo-European.
A<br>
second volume, edited by Richard M. Hogg and Linda van Bergen, will<br>
contain papers on Germanic.<br>
Contributions by: Jean-Luc Azra; Vit Bubeník; Michela Cennamo; Alan
Dench;<br>
Monique Dufresne, Fernande Dupuis & Mireille Tremblay; Denis
Dumas;<br>
Anthony Fox; Bjarke Frellesvig; Peter Hendriks; Alan Hyun-Oak
Kim;Leonid<br>
I. Kulikov; Christopher Lyons; Silvia Luraghi; Maria M. Manoliu;
Marianne<br>
Mithun; Christopher J. Pountain; Tim Pulju; Anna Giacalone Ramat;
Anju<br>
Saxena; Paul Sidwell; Anna Siewierska; Ann Taylor; Tandy Warnow;
Don<br>
Ringe; Pieter van Reenen; Lene Schřsler.<br>
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