30.3136, Books: Language History, Language Change, and Language Relationship: Hock, Joseph

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Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 11:05:33
From: Asja Kusnezowa [Asja.Kusnezowa at degruyter.com]
Subject: Language History, Language Change, and Language Relationship: Hock, Joseph

 


Title: Language History, Language Change, and Language Relationship 
Subtitle: An Introduction to Historical and Comparative Linguistics 
Series Title: Mouton Textbook  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/506648 


Author: Hans Henrich Hock
Author: Brian D. Joseph

Paperback: ISBN:  9783110609691 Pages: 565 Price: U.S. $ 34.99


Abstract:

Editor's Note: This is a new edition of a previously announced book.

Why does language change? Why can we speak to and understand our parents but
have trouble reading Shakespeare? Why is Chaucer's English of the fourteenth
century so different from Modern English of the late twentieth century that
the two are essentially different languages? Why are Americans and English
'one people divided by a common language'? And how can the language of Chaucer
and Modern English - or Modern British and American English - still be called
the same language? The present book provides answers to questions like these
in a straightforward way, aimed at the non-specialist, with ample
illustrations from both familiar and more exotic languages.

Most chapters in this new edition have been reworked, with some difficult
passages removed, other passages thoroughly rewritten, and several new
sections added, e.g. on the regularity of sound change and its importance for
general historical-comparative linguistics. Further, the chapter notes and
bibliography have all been updated.

The content is engaging, focusing on topics and issues that spark student
interest. Its goals are broadly pedagogical and the level and presentation are
appropriate for interested beginners with little or no background in
linguistics. The language coverage for examples goes well beyond what is usual
for books of this kind, with a considerable amount of data from various
languages of India.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

See this book announcement on our website: 
http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=137396




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