The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics

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Claire Bowern (Yale University, USA) Bethwyn Evans (Australian National University)

The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics

Claire Bowern (Yale University, USA), Bethwyn Evans (Australian National University)

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Routledge
24 April 2019

Language: history & general works; Historical & comparative linguistics

Series: Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics

The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics provides a survey of the field covering the methods which underpin current work; models of language change; and the importance of historical linguistics for other subfields of linguistics and other disciplines.

Divided into five sections, the volume encompass a wide range of approaches and addresses issues in the following areas:

historical perspectives

methods and models

language change

interfaces

regional summaries

Each of the thirty-two chapters is written by a specialist in the field and provides: a introduction to the subject; an analysis of the relationship between the diachronic and synchronic study of the topic; an overview of the main current and critical trends; and examples from primary data. The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics is essential reading for researchers and postgraduate students working in this area.

Chapter 28 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9781315794013.ch28

Edited by: Claire Bowern (Yale University USA), Bethwyn Evans (Australian National University)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 1.460kg
ISBN: 9780367250294
ISBN 10: 0367250292
Series: Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics
Pages: 758
Publication Date: 24 April 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Claire Bowern is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Yale University. Her research focuses on the Indigenous languages of Australia, and is concerned with documentation/description and prehistory. Bethwyn Evans is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, but will take up a position as Research Fellow in Linguistics at the Australian National University in 2012. Her current research centres on issues of language history and contact with a focus on the languages of Melanesia.

Reviews for The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics

'...this volume represents a great introduction for anyone interested in historical linguistics, as well as in other connected disciplines such as history, archaeology, and molecular anthropology. Also, it represents a good starting point for research and an impressive testimony to the progress achieved in historical linguistics.' - Monica Vasileanu, Romanian Academy, Institute of Linguistics, The LINGUIST List