UID:
almafu_9960119585402883
Format:
1 online resource (x, 301 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-139-16570-4
Series Statement:
Cambridge textbooks in linguistics
Content:
Historical Linguistics is concerned with the process of language change through time. It investigates how and why the language of individuals, a social group or a whole 'speech community' develops in respect of its pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar. Dr Bynon regards language as essentially a dynamic phenomenon, whose character can be at best only partly understood by a static, and necessarily idealized, synchronic approach. In Part I she establishes the theoretical framework by providing a systematic survey of the three main models of language development - the neogrammarian, structuralist, and transformational generative. Examples drawn substantially from English and German, but also from classical languages, French, Welsh and a variety of others, are used to explain and compare these approaches. In Part II she turns to sociolinguistics and shows how changes within a language over a period of time, and changes brought about by contact between languages, are both indicators and agents of more general cultural developments. Accounts of bilingualism and of pidgin and Creole languages are included as well as wider-ranging examples of different kinds of borrowing such as loan words, loan translations and extensions of meaning. The student is provided with a practical and critical guide both to what has been done and what can be done to discover and verify these linguistic relationships. Designed primarily as a textbook for linguistics and philology students, this book will also be of interest to those studying English language, classics and modern languages.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Cover -- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Key to symbols used -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part One Models of language development -- The neogrammarian model -- 1 Basic issues -- 2 The Indo-European languages -- 3 The neogrammarians -- 4 Sound change: the regularity principle -- 5 Analogy -- 6 The interdependence of sound change and analogy -- 7 Phonological reconstruction ('the comparative method') -- 8 Morphological and syntactic reconstruction -- 9 Lexical reconstruction -- 10 Relatedness of languages (genealogical, or genetic, relationship) -- The structuralist model of language evolution -- 1 Paradigmatic aspects of phonological change -- 2 Traces of past phonological change remaining in morphological structure: internal reconstruction -- 3 Changes affecting grammatical categories and their exponents -- 4 Limitations of structuralist methods applied to diachrony -- The transformational-generative model of language evolution -- 1 Phonological change -- 2 Syntactic change -- Part Two Language contact -- The neogrammarian postulates and dialect geography -- 1 The domain of a sound change -- 2 Lexical replacement: the failure of the 'phonetic etymologies' -- 3 Do dialect boundaries exist? -- 4 The wave theory -- 5 Mutual intelligibility -- 6 The social dimension -- The social motivation of language change -- 1 The social stratification of language: the evaluation of linguistic variables -- 2 The synchronic reflection of historical change -- 3 The mechanism of language change -- Contact between languages -- 1 Lexical borrowing -- 2 Grammatical borrowing -- 3 Pidgin and creole languages -- Language and prehistory -- 1 Classification and language history -- 2 Linguistic reconstruction and prehistory -- Further reading -- References -- Additional bibliography -- Index.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-29188-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-21582-X
Language:
English
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139165709
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