| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
eBook Academic Collection - North America
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
What is language change? -- Studying change -- Lexical change -- Phonetic change -- Phonological change -- Morphological change -- Syntactic change -- Actuation and spread -- Methodology -- Causation, prediction, and final remarks. |
| Access |
License restrictions may limit access. |
| Summary |
"This textbook serves a dual purpose. It is, first, a comprehensive introduction to historical linguistics, intended for both undergraduate and graduate students who have taken, at the least, an introductory course in linguistics. Secondly, unlike many such textbooks, this one is based in the theoretical framework of Cognitive Linguistics, a semantics-based theory which emphasizes the relationship between cognition and language. Descriptions and explanations touch on cognitive, social, and physiological aspects of language as it changes across time. Examples come principally from Germanic (English, German, Yiddish) and Romance (French and Spanish), but with some exploration of aspects of the history of other languages as well. Each chapter concludes with exercises based on material in the chapter and also with suggestions for extensions of the content to wider issues in diachronic linguistics"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
| Subject |
Historical linguistics -- Textbooks.
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Cognitive grammar -- Textbooks.
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| Added Author |
eBook Academic Collection - North America
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| Related To |
Print version: Winters, Margaret E.. Historical linguistics Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020] 9789027205506 (DLC) 2020005905 |
| ISBN |
9789027261236 (pdf) |
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9789027205506 (hardcover) |
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9789027205513 (paperback) |
| OCLC # |
sseb_ssj0002293947 |
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