Language history: an introduction

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This classroom-tested volume aspires to be a brief but technically and factually accurate exposition of linguistic description and history. Whether studied as prime subject or as background information, it should help students understand the assumptions and reasoning that underlie the contents of their handbooks and etymological dictionaries. This book should be a useful guide for anyone unfamiliar with (historical) linguistics who is studying the history of a language, and also for those who a…

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Full title :Language history : an introduction / Andrew L. Sihler.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2000.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):J. Benjamins
Place of Publication:Amsterdam
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2000.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xv, 298 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9789027285461, 9027285462, 128304708X, 9781283047081, 9786613047083, 6613047082
oclc:ocn713026673
LC Classification:P140
Dewey Decimal:417/.7

Introduction -- Changes in Pronunciation -- Sound Laws -- Analogy -- Semantic Change -- Reconstruction -- External Aspects of Language -- The Interpretation of Written Records -- Appendix: Phonetics -- the mechanisms of speech and the classifications of speech sounds.

Subjects

Changement linguistique FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Ancient Langu… Historical linguistics Historische taalwetenschap LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguist… Linguistic change Linguistique historique Taalverandering