Historical Linguistics: Toward a Twenty-First Century Reintegration eBook

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Bringing the advances of theoretical linguistics to the study of language change in a systematic way, this innovative textbook demonstrates the mutual relevance of historical linguistics and contemporary linguistics. Numerous case studies throughout the book show both that theoretical linguistics can be used to solve problems where traditional approaches to historical linguistics have failed to produce satisfying results, and that the results of historical research can have an impact on theory. The book first explains the nature of human language and the sources of language change in broad terms. It then focuses on different types of language change from contemporary viewpoints, before exploring comparative reconstruction – the most spectacular success of traditional historical linguistics – and the problems inherent in trying to devise new methods for linguistic comparison. Positioned at the cutting edge of the field, the book argues that this approach can and should lead to the re-integration of historical linguistics as one of the core areas in the study of language.

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Historical Linguistics: Toward a Twenty-First Century Reintegration is written by Don Ringe; Joseph F. Eska and published by Cambridge University Press. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Historical Linguistics are 9781139602822, 1139602829 and the print ISBNs are 9780521583329, 0521583322.