An Introduction to Historical LinguisticsOxford University Press, 1997 - 342 頁 All languages change, just as other aspects of human society are constantly changing. This book is an introduction to the concepts and techniques of diachronic linguistics--the study of language change over time. It covers all the major areas of historical linguistics, presenting concepts in a clear and concise way. While examples are given from a wide range of languages, most major concepts and techniques are illustrated by material drawn from the languages of Australia and the Pacific. The needs of undergraduate students of linguistics have been kept firmly in mind, but the book will also be of interest to the general reader seeking to understand language and language change. This third edition includes a number of rewritten and supplemented sections and new material on grammaticalization, ergativity and accusativity, language diversification, palaeolinguistics, and morphological evolution. |
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allophone assimilation Australia Austronesian languages Bahasa Indonesia basic Bislama Chapter cognate comparative method complementary distribution consonant clusters core vocabulary correspondence sets cultural Data Set daughter languages derived described dialects Dyirbal earlier English word evidence example express fact Fijian French fricative front vowel ga:ɲu gala German grammatical changes grammaticalised Hawaiian Historical Linguistics instance involved island kind of change Koiari language change language family Latin lexical copying lexicon lexicostatistical look Māori meaning Melanesian Pidgin modern morphemes morphological Motu nasal neogrammarians noun phrase original form original phoneme Paamese Pacific Papua New Guinea particular phonetic change phonological pidgin language pidgins and creoles plural Polynesian languages possible pronounced pronunciation Proto Austronesian Proto Polynesian protolanguage Rarotongan recognise reconstruct refer s)he Sanskrit scholars semantic sentence similar Sinaugoro single sound changes sound correspondences speak speakers spoken structure subgroup suffix syllable take place Tok Pisin Tongan typological Vanuatu velar verb