Discusses all aspects of language change as a dynamic process against a background of the differing approaches of the structuralist, neogrammarian and transformational generative schools.
Thomason, Sarah, and Terrence Kaufman (1988). Language Contact, Creolization and Genetic Linguistics. Berkeley: University of California Press. Thurgood, Graham (2002). Vietnamese and Tonogenesis. Diachronica 19(2): 333–63.
This engaging book is illustrated with language examples from all six continents, and covers the fundamental concepts of language change, methods for historical linguistics, linguistic reconstruction, sociolinguistic aspects of language ...
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 ...
Since its first publication in 1962 the book has established itself as core reading for students of linguistics. This edition has been thoroughly revised.
This is the first of two volumes deriving from papers presented at the Nineteenth Annual UVM Linguistics Symposium held in Milwaukee in April 1990.
Selected Papers from the 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Vancouver, 9-13 August 1999 Laurel J. Brinton. CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY E. F. K. Koerner , Editor Department of Linguistics , University of ...
This book provides an accessible introduction to anyone interested in the history of the English language. It outlines the major issues and terminology used in the field of Historical Linguistics,...
Distinctive to this text is its integration of the standard topics with others nowconsidered important to the field, including syntactic change, grammaticalization, sociolinguisticcontributions to linguistic change, distant genetic ...
These papers, deriving from the 7th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL) in Pavia in 1984, provide an overview of the current status of research in this field.
A Sociopragmatic Analysis of Examination Transcripts from the Salem Witchcraft Trials”. Journal of Historical Pragmatics 3: 1.1–30. Archer, Dawn. 2005. Questions and Answers in the English Courtroom (1640–1760).