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1 online resource (vi, 321 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
1 Introduction; 2 The Comparative Method as Heuristic; 3 On Sound Change and Challenges to Regularity; 4 Footnotes to a History of Cantonese: Accounting for the Phonological Irregularlties; 5 Early Germanic Umlaut and Variable Rules; 6 The Neogrammarian Hypothesis and Pandemic Irregularity; 7 Regularity of Change in What?; 8 Contact-Induced Change and the Comparative Method: Cases from Papua New Guinea; 9 Reconstruction in Morphology; 10 Natural Tendencies of Semantic Change and the Search for Cognates; Subject Index; Language Index; Name Index. |
| Summary |
Historical reconstruction of languages relies on the comparative method, which itself depends on the notion of the regularity of change. The regularity of sound change is the famous Neogrammarian Hypothesis: "sound change takes place according to laws that admit no exception." The comparative method, however, is not restricted to the consideration of sound change, and neither is the assumption of regularity. Syntactic, morphological, and semantic change are all amenable in varying degrees, to comparative reconstruction, and each type of change is constrained in ways that enable the r. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Comparative linguistics.
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Comparative linguistics. |
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Linguistic change.
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Linguistic change. |
| Indexed Term |
Comparative linguistics |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Durie, Mark, 1958-
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Ross, Malcolm.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Comparative method reviewed. New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, ©1996 0195066073 9780195066074 (DLC) 94040954 (OCoLC)59119671 |
| ISBN |
9780195362107 (electronic book) |
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0195362101 (electronic book) |
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9780195066074 |
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0195066073 |
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