Morphology and language history: in honour of Harold Koch
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia John Benjamins ©2008
Series:Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science v. 298
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Morphology and Language History; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; CONTRIBUTORS' ADDRESSES; INTRODUCTION; I. GENETIC RELATEDNESS; II. RECONSTRUCTION; III. PROCESSES OF CHANGE; INDEX OF LANGUAGES; INDEX OF SUBJECTS; The series CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY.
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 methodol
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (ix, 364 pages)
ISBN:9027290962
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