Historical Linguistics and Language Change by Roger Lass
Language change happens in the spatio-temporal world. Historical linguistics is the craft linguists exercise upon its results, in order to tell coherent stories about it. In a series of linked essays Roger Lass offers a critical survey of the foundations of the art of historical linguistics, and its interaction with its subject matter, language change. He takes as his background some of the major philosophical issues which arise from these considerations, such as ontology, realism and conventionalism, and explanation. Along the way he poses such questions as: where does our data come from; how trustworthy is it; what is the empirical basis for the reconstructive techniques we standardly take as yielding facts; and how much does the historian create data rather than receiving it? The paradoxical conclusion is that our historiographical methods are often better than the data they have to work with.-
Cooking Under Pressure
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Compounds and Compounding
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Colloquial English
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Learn Italian with Wordsearch Puzzles
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Linguistic Evolution
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Predication Theory
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Bivalency and Intransitivity
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The Globalizing Education Policy
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Relative Clauses
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Discourse Structure and Anaphora
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Lexical Phonology and the History of English
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The Phonetic Description of Voice Quality
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Phonological Variation and Change
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Voice and Argument Structure in Basque
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Optimal Linking Grammar: Volume 170
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Case
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Syntactic Relations
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Output-Driven Phonology
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Modality in Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics
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Morphological Complexity
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The Syntax of Imperatives
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Null Subjects
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Symmetry in Syntax
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Symmetry Breaking in Syntax
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Morphological Typology
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Functional Categories
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Gemination, Lenition, and Vowel Lengthening
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Inflectional Defectiveness
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The Acquisition of Complex Sentences
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The Contrastive Hierarchy in Phonology
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Onsets
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Morphosyntactic Change
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Inflectional Paradigms
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Dependency and Directionality
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Vowel Patterns in Language
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English Nouns
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The Compositional Nature of Tense, Mood and Aspect: Volume 167
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Universal Semantic Syntax
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Heritage Languages and their Speakers
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Conditions on Phonological Government
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Objects and Information Structure
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Socio-Historical Linguistics
'This is a very interesting book, and the reader who is familiar with the basics of historical linguistics will find it inspiring and stimulating' Moderna Sprak
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521459242 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521459249 |
| Title | Historical Linguistics and Language Change |
| Author | Roger Lass |
| Series | Cambridge Studies In Linguistics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 1997-04-03 |
| Number of pages | 448 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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