'Morphology and Language History' Book Announcement

[Claire Bowern]

Edited by Claire Bowern, Bethwyn Evans and Luisa Miceli
Yale University / University of Manchester / University of Western Australia

This volume aims to make a contribution to codifying the methods and
practices linguists use to recover language history, focussing
predominantly on historical morphology. The volume includes studies on a
wide range of languages: not only Indo-European, but also Austronesian,
Sinitic, Mon-Khmer, Basque, one Papuan language family, as well as a
number of Australian families. Few collections are as cross-linguistic
as this, reflecting the new challenges which have emerged from the study
of languages outside those best known from historical linguistics. 
The
contributors illustrate shared methodological and theoretical issues
concerning genetic relatedness (that is, the use of morphological
evidence for classification and subgrouping), reconstruction and
processes of change with a diverse range of data. 
 The volume is in
honour of Harold Koch, who has long combined innovative research on
understudied languages with methodological rigour and codification of
practices within the discipline.

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 298] 2008. x, 364 pp.



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