Variation and reconstruction

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The relation of language variation to reconstructed languages and to the methodology of reconstruction has long been neglected. The articles in the present volume consider this relationship from a number of different angles, with a number of different focuses. Several of the papers discuss evidence from Germanic, either Proto-Germanic (Joseph, Schwink), or daughter languages such as Dutch (Goss & Howell), Afrikaans (Roberge), Newcastle English (Milroy), and a Wisconsin German dialect (Geiger & …

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Full title :Variation and reconstruction / edited by Thomas D. Cravens.

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Publication Date:©2006.

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Publisher(s):Johns Benjamins Pub
Place of Publication:Amsterdam
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2006.

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Description:1 online resource (223 pages)

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ISBN:9789027285256, 902728525X
oclc:ocn713025936
LC Classification:P120.V37
Dewey Decimal:417/.2

VARIATION AND RECONSTRUCTION; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; FOREWORD; VARIATION AND RECONSTRUCTION INTRODUCTION; MICROVARIABILITY IN TIME AND SPACE RECONSTRUCTING THE PAST FROM THE PRESENT; RECONSTRUCTING VARIATION AT SHALLOW TIME DEPTHS THE HISTORICAL PHONETICS OF 19TH CENTURY GERMAN DIALECTS IN THE U.S.; SOCIAL AND STRUCTURAL FACTORS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF DUTCH URBAN DIALECTS IN THEEARLY MODERN PERIOD; REDUCTION OF VARIATION AS A FEATURE OF THE STANDARDIZATION OF CASTILIAN SPANISH AROUND 1500.

On projecting variation back into a proto-language with particular attention to germanic evidence and some thoughts on "drift"variation of direct speech complementizers in achaemenid aramaic documents from fifth century b.c.e. egypt; language change and the speakeron the discourse of historical linguistics; prefixvariation and reconstruction; on reconstructing a linguistic continuum in cape dutch (1710-1840); the reconstruction of variability in proto-germanic gender; variation as a reflection of contact notes from southeast asia; index of concepts and languages.

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