Linguistic Reconstruction An Introduction to Theory and Method
Author:Fox, Anthony
ISBN-13:
9780198700012
ISBN:
0198700016
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Summary: How and why are languages constantly changing? Historical linguistics seeks to find out by going beyond the history of individual languages to discover the general principles which underlie language change. But our evidence is severely limited. Most of the world's languages are still unwritten, and even in areas with long written traditions, such as Europe and the Near East, documentary evidence stretches only a litt...le way back along the path of the historical development of languages. How, then, can we uncover our long linguistic prehistory, and what can it tell us about language change? This new book, the first in the major new series, Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics, is an accessible general guide for students with an elementary knowledge of linguistics to the methods and theoretical bases of linguistic reconstruction. Fox provides a comprehensive survey both of orthodox techniques and of newer, less well established principles such as the application of linguistic universals and language typology, and quantitative techniques. [read more]
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-13: 9780198700012
ISBN: 0198700016
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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