The Routledge handbook of historical linguistics /

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Imprint:Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2015.
Description:1 online resource (xviii, 757 pages .).
Language:English
Series:Routledge handbooks in linguistics
Routledge handbooks in linguistics.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13442375
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Varying Form of Title:Handbook of historical linguistics
Other authors / contributors:Bowern, Claire, 1977- editor.
Evans, Bethwyn, editor.
ISBN:1317743245
9781317743248
9781315794013
1315794012
1306971586
9781306971584
9780415527897
0415527899
9781317743231
1317743237
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
Summary:"The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics provides a survey of the field covering the methods which underpin current work; models of language change; and the importance of historical linguistics for other subfields of linguistics and other disciplines. Divided into five sections, the volume encompass a wide range of approaches and addresses issues in the following areas: historical perspectivesmethods and modelslanguage changeinterfacesregional summariesEach of the thirty-two chapters is written by a specialist in the field and provides: a introduction to the subject; an analysis of the relationship between the diachronic and synchronic study of the topic; an overview of the main current and critical trends; and examples from primary data. The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics is essential reading for researchers and postgraduate students working in this area"--
Other form:Print version: Routledge handbook of historical linguistics 9780415527897
Standard no.:10.4324/9781315794013