32.2414, Books: Historical Linguistics, Fourth Edition: Campbell

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Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2021 18:59:59
From: Kailey Tse-Harlow [kailey at mit.edu]
Subject: Historical Linguistics, Fourth Edition: Campbell

 


Title: Historical Linguistics, Fourth Edition 
Subtitle: An Introduction 
Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: MIT Press
	   http://mitpress.mit.edu/
	

Book URL: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/historical-linguistics-fourth-edition 


Author: Lyle Campbell

Paperback: ISBN:  9780262542180 Pages: 560 Price: ----  50


Abstract:

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

This accessible, hands-on textbook not only introduces students to the
important topics in historical linguistics but also shows them how to apply
the methods described and how to think about the issues. Abundant examples
from a broad range of languages and exercises allow students to focus on how
to do historical linguistics. The book is distinctive for its integration of
the standard topics with others now considered important to the field,
including syntactic change, grammaticalization, sociolinguistic contributions
to linguistic change, distant genetic relationships, areal linguistics, and
linguistic prehistory.

The book also offers a defense of the family tree model, a response to recent
claims on lexical diffusion/frequency, and a section on why languages
diversify and spread. Example from the more familiar English, French, German,
and Spanish make the topics more accessible, while those from
non-Indo-European languages show the depth and range of the concepts they
illustrate.This fourth edition features a larger page format and refreshed
layout for a more reader-friendly experience; sixteen restructures and revised
chapters and two new chapters on lexical change and semantic change and new
coverage of quantitative and corpus research methods; practical exercises and
a full bibliography.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

See this book announcement on our website: 
http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=154553




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