New publication

[Silvia Luraghi]

>(Apologies for cross-posting)

Dear Colleagues,
Vit Bubenik and I are happy to announce the publication of a new book:

Continuum Companion to Historical Linguistics

Editors: Silvia Luraghi and Vit Bubenik
Publisher: Continuum
Date of publication: 2010

http://www.continuumbooks.com/books/detail.aspx?BookId=132238&SntUrl=150439&SubjectId=989&Subject2Id=965

Table of contents:
Editor’s Introduction \ 1. Historical 
linguistics: history, sources and resources 
Silvia Luraghi and Vit Bubenik  \ Part I: 
Methodology \ 2. Sound change and the comparative 
method: the science of historical reconstruction 
John Hewson \ 3. Internal reconstruction Brian D. 
Joseph \ 4. Typology and universals Hans H. Hock\ 
5. Internal language classification Søren 
Wichmann \ Part II: Phonological change \ 6. 
Segmental phonological change Joe Salmons \ 7. 
Suprasegmental and prosodic historical phonology 
Hans H. Hock \ Part III: Morphological and 
Grammatical change \ 8. From morphologization to 
demorphologization Henning Andersen \ 9. 
Analogical change Livio Gaeta\ 10. Change in 
grammatical categories Vit Bubenik  Part IV: 
Syntactic change \ 11. Word order Jan Terje 
Faarlund \ 12. The rise (and possible downfall) 
of configurationality Silvia Luraghi \ 13. 
Subordination Dorothy Disterheft and Carlotta 
Viti \ 14. Alignment Geoffrey Haig \ Part V: 
Semantico-Pragmatic Change \ 15. Semantic change 
Eugenio R. Luján\ 16. Etymology Thomas Krisch \ 
17. Grammaticalization Elizabeth Closs 
Traugott  \ Part VI: Explanation of Language 
Change \ 18. Language contact Bridget Drinka\ 19. 
Regional and social dialectology J. K. Chambers\ 
20. Causes of language change Silvia Luraghi \ 
Notes \ Glossary: A-Z Historical Linguistics \ 
References \ Notes on Contributors \ Index




Silvia Luraghi
Dipartimento di Linguistica Teorica e Applicata
Università di Pavia
Strada Nuova 65
I-27100 Pavia
telef.: +39-0382-984685
fax: +39-0382-984487
silvia.luraghi at unipv.it
http://lettere.unipv.it/diplinguistica/docenti.php?&id=68 
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