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Dear Colleagues,<br>
Vit Bubenik and I are happy to announce the publication of a new book:
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Continuum Companion to Historical Linguistics <br><br>
Editors: Silvia Luraghi and Vit Bubenik<br>
Publisher: Continuum<br>
Date of publication: 2010<br><br>
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Table of contents:<br>
Editor’s Introduction \ 1. Historical linguistics: history, sources and
resources <i>Silvia Luraghi and Vit Bubenik </i>\ <b>Part I:
Methodology</b> \ 2. Sound change and the comparative method: the science
of historical reconstruction <i>John Hewson</i> \ 3. Internal
reconstruction <i>Brian D. Joseph</i> \ 4. Typology and universals
<i>Hans H. Hock</i>\ 5. Internal language classification <i>Søren
Wichmann</i> \ <b>Part II: Phonological change</b> \ 6. Segmental
phonological change <i>Joe Salmons </i>\ 7. Suprasegmental and prosodic
historical phonology <i>Hans H. Hock</i> \ <b>Part III: Morphological and
Grammatical change</b> \ 8. From morphologization to demorphologization
<i>Henning Andersen</i> \ 9. Analogical change <i>Livio Gaeta</i>\ 10.
Change in grammatical categories <i>Vit Bubenik </i><b>Part IV: Syntactic
change</b> \ 11. Word order <i>Jan Terje Faarlund</i> \ 12. The rise (and
possible downfall) of configurationality <i>Silvia Luraghi</i> \ 13.
Subordination <i>Dorothy Disterheft and Carlotta Viti</i> \ 14. Alignment
<i>Geoffrey Haig</i> \ Part V: Semantico-Pragmatic Change \ 15. Semantic
change <i>Eugenio R. Luján</i>\ 16. Etymology <i>Thomas Krisch \ </i>17.
Grammaticalization <i>Elizabeth Closs Traugott </i>\ Part VI: Explanation
of Language Change \ 18. Language contact <i>Bridget Drinka</i>\ 19.
Regional and social dialectology <i>J. K. Chambers</i>\ 20. Causes of
language change <i>Silvia Luraghi</i> \ Notes \ Glossary: A-Z Historical
Linguistics \ References \ Notes on Contributors \ Index <br>
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Silvia Luraghi<br>
Dipartimento di Linguistica Teorica e Applicata<br>
Università di Pavia<br>
Strada Nuova 65<br>
I-27100 Pavia<br>
telef.: +39-0382-984685<br>
fax: +39-0382-984487<br>
silvia.luraghi@unipv.it<br>
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