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Hock, Hans Henrich, 1938-

Language history, language change, and language relationship : an introduction to historical and comparative linguistics / Hans Henrich Hock, Brian D. Joseph. - 3rd revised edition. - x, 565 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. - Mouton Textbook .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 513-541) and indexes.

Introduction -- The discovery of Indo-European -- Writing: its history and its decipherment -- Sound change -- Analogy and change in word structure -- Syntactic change -- Semantic change -- Lexical borrowing -- Lexical change and etymology: the study of words -- Language, dialect, and standard -- Dialect geography and dialectology -- Language spread, link languages, and bilingualism -- Convergence: dialectology beyond language boundaries -- Pidgins, creoles, and related forms of language -- Language death -- Comparative method: establishing language relationship -- Proto-world?: the question of long-distance genetic relationships -- Linguistic palaeontology: historical linguistics, history, and prehistory

ISBN: 9783110609691

LCCN: 2019935654

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Historical linguistics.
Comparative linguistics.

LC Class. No.: P140 / .H588 2019