Historical and Comparative Linguistics.
Title:
Historical and Comparative Linguistics.
Author:
Anttila, Raimo.
ISBN:
9789027286086
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Edition:
2nd ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (490 pages)
Series:
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory ; v.6
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory
Contents:
HISTORICAL AND COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- PREFACE -- Table of contents -- INTRODUCTION 1988 -- APOLOGIA PRO REEDITIONE SUA -- SEMIOTICS AND CHANGE -- REFERENCES -- PART I. BACKGROUND: GENETIC LINGUISTICS IN RELATION TO GENERAL LINGUISTICS AND RELATED FIELDS -- CHAPTER 1. LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 2. WRITING AND LANGUAGE -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 3. LINGUISTIC VARIATION -- REFERENCES -- PART II. HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS: HOW DOES LANGUAGE CHANGE? -- CHAPTER 4. SOUND CHANGE -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 5. GRAMMAR CHANGE: ANALOGY -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 6. RULE CHANGE -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 7. SEMANTIC CHANGE -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 8. EXTERNAL CHANGE: BORROWING -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 9. WHY DOES LANGUAGE CHANGE? LINGUISTIC AND SOCIAL FACTORS -- REFERENCES -- PART III. COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS (GENERAL NOTIONS AND STRUCTURE): HOW CAN CHANGE BE REVERSED? -- CHAPTER 10. PRELIMINARIES TO THE HISTORICAL METHODS -- PHONEMIC ANALYSIS -- MORPHOPHONEMIC ANALYSIS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 11. THE COMPARATIVE METHOD (THE CENTRAL CONCEPT) -- REFERENCES -- THE COMPARATIVE METHOD IN SYNTAX -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 12. INTERNAL RECONSTRUCTION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 13. CONCLUSION TO THE METHODS -- REFERENCES -- PART IV. LINGUISTIC RECONSTRUCTION: A SYNTHESIS OF VARIOUS LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL NOTIONS -- CHAPTER 14. DIALECT GEOGRAPHY -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 15. ALTERNATIVE RELATIONSHIP MODELS -- DEFINITIONS OF THE ISOGLOSSES -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 16. CLASSIFICATION OF LANGUAGES -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 17. PHILOLOGY AND ETYMOLOGY -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 18. RECONSTRUCTING PHONOLOGY -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 19. RECONSTRUCTING GRAMMAR -- MORPHOLOGY -- SYNTAX -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 20. RECONSTRUCTING SEMOLOGY/SEMANTICS -- REFERENCES.
PART V. CONCLUSION: LINGUISTICS AS PART OF ANTHROPOLOGY -- CHAPTER 21. CHANGE AND RECONSTRUCTION IN CULTURE AND LINGUISTICS -- CHANGE -- RECONSTRUCTION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 22. GENETIC LINGUISTICS AND BIOLOGICAL GENETICS -- CHANGE -- RECONSTRUCTION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 23. GENETIC LINGUISTICS AND METATHEORY -- REFERENCES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- The series CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY.
Abstract:
In any course of historical and comparative linguistics there will be students of different language backgrounds, different levels of linguistic training, and different theoretical orientation. This textbook attempts to mitigate the problems raised by this heterogeneity in a number of ways. Since it is impossible to treat the language or language family of special interest to every student, the focus of this book is on English in particular and Indo-European languages in general, with Finnish and its closely related languages for contrast. The tenets of different schools of linguistics, and the controversies among them, are treated eclectically and objectively; the examination of language itself plays the leading role in our efforts to ascertain the comparative value of competing theories. This revised edition (1989) of a standard work for comparative linguists offers an added introduction dealing mainly with a semiotic basis of change, a final chapter on aspects of explanation, particularly in historical and human disciplines, and added sections on comparative syntax and on the semiotic status of the comparative method.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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