The Routledge Handbook Of Historical Linguistics (Routledge Handbooks In Linguistics)

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 perspectives methods and models language change interfaces regional summaries Each 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.

• | Author: Claire Bowern|Bethwyn Evans
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Jun 27, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 776 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0415527899
• | ISBN-13: 9780415527897