36.3804, Books: Comparing Linguistic Diachronies: Lavidas, Bergs, Van Gelderen, and Sitaridou (eds.) (2025)

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Date: 09-Dec-2025
From: Lucy Trotter [lucy.trotter at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: Comparing Linguistic Diachronies: Lavidas, Bergs, Van Gelderen, and Sitaridou (eds.) (2025)


Title: Comparing Linguistic Diachronies
Subtitle: The Naxos Papers (Volume III)
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
           http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/comparing-linguistic-diachronies-9781350516335/

Editor(s): Nikolaos Lavidas, Alexander Bergs, Elly van Gelderen, &
Ioanna Sitaridou

Hardback, ISBN: 9781350516335, Price: £95.00

Abstract:

This volume presents eight case studies examining diachronic
linguistics and language contact, as well as different aspects of
language change.
The chapters cover a variety of topics and consider the relationship
between historical data and linguistic theory. They also examine the
diachronic development of linguistic characteristics in different
levels of linguistic analysis including historical morpho-syntax,
historical phonology, historical pragmatics and historical
sociolinguistics. The authors propose modern methodologies of
analyzing and explaining the diachronic development of various
morpho-phonological and morpho-syntactic characteristics. Focusing on
common directions of change in different languages, including English,
Gothic, Ancient Greek, Eastern Indo-Aryan and Hebrew, they provide
explanations that reveal the role of internal factors as well as of
language contact.
The volume promotes a dialogue between traditional approaches to
language change and modern approaches utilizing new, statistical
methodologies. Through this type of dialogue, the volume enriches our
knowledge of theoretical perspectives, tools and methods that can
facilitate a contrastive analysis of the diachronic development of
linguistic characteristics.

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Applied Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis
                     General Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics




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