Perspectives on Historical Linguistics
Papers from a conference held at the meeting of the Language Theory Division, Modern Language Assn., San Francisco, 27–30 December 1979
Editors
This volume presents seven extensive essays by specialists in their respective fields of historical linguistics. The first essay after the Introduction states the principles presented in Directions for Historical Linguistics (1968) and assesses the progress made since then towards constructing a general theory of language change. Like the following essays on phonology and morphology, it poses new questions that have arisen in the increasingly ambitious research. Historical attention to discourse, the topic of the next essay, is virtually new, though it too finds predecessors among philologists who devoted themselves to texts. Finally, two essays treat etymology, one concentrating on the rigorously investigated Romance field, the other on Indo-European, especially on new insights prompted by attention to Hittite.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 24] 1982. xii, 379 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
Prefatory note
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v
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Table of contents
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ix
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Charts, figures and tables
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x
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Abbreviations
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xi-xii
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1
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17
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93
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133
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245
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273
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291
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Bibliography
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329
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Subject index
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373
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Author index
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377
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Linguistics
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