Linguistic Reconstruction

One does not need to know about historical linguistics to understand this book. Fox assumes his reader is acquainted with the basics of linguistics, but even a novice in historical linguistics can plunge into this book.

Klappentext
Recent textbooks in historical linguistics concentrate more on the theory of language change than on methods of linguistic reconstruction. This book redresses the balance, providing a general guide to methods and theories of linguistic of languages. It describes both traditional and newer, less well established techniques.

Zusammenfassung
How and why are languages constantly changing? Historical lingustics seeks to find out by going beyond the history of individual languages to discover the general principles which underlie language change. But our evidence is severely limited. Most of the world's languages are still unwritten, and even in areas with long written traditions, such as Europe and the Near East, documentary evidence stretches only a little way back along the path of the historical development of languages. How, then, can we uncover our long linguistic prehistory, and what can it tell us about language change? This new textbook is an accessible general guide for students with an elementary knowledge of linguistics to the methods and theoretical bases of linguistic reconstruction, and of newer, less well established principles such as the application of linguistic universals and language typology, and quantitative techniques. Finally he reviews the principles for establishing language relationships and for uncovering information about the homelands and cultures of the prehistoric speakers of reconstructed languages.

Inhalt
1: Introduction
2: Background in Comparitive Method
3: The Comparitive Method in the Twentieth Century
4: The Comparitive Method: Basic Procedures
5: Comparitive Reconstruction of Morphology, Syntax, and the Lexicon
6: Issues in Comparative Reconstruction
7: Internal Reconstruction
8: Applications and Implications of Internal Reconstruction
9: Reconstructing Language Relationships
10: Language Typology and Linguistic Reconstruction
11: Quantative Methods in Reconstruction
12: Reconstruction, Culture and Society
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