Historical Linguistics: An Introduction - Softcover

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"The textbook of choice for courses in historical linguistics." -- William Poser, Department of Linguistics, University of Northern British Columbia

"The absolutely best textbook in historical linguistics." -- Theo Vennemann, Department of Linguistics, University of Munich

Historical linguistics is the study of how and why language changes--both the methods of investigating language change and the theories designed to explain these changes. This highly accessible introductory text takes a hands-on, how-to approach, rather than just talking about the subject as many texts do. The book contains abundant examples both from familiar European languages, to make the topics accessible, and from a variety of non-European languages, to illustrate the depth and range of the concepts. The book also covers a number of essential topics neglected by most texts, including syntactic change, methods for investigating distant genetic relationship, linguistic prehistory, and grammaticalization.

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