Historical Linguistics and Language Change

by Roger Lass

Book Overview

Language change happens in the spatio-temporal world. Historical linguistics is the craft linguists exercise upon its results, in order to tell coherent stories about it. In a series of linked essays Roger Lass offers a critical survey of the foundations of the art of historical linguistics, and its interaction with its subject matter, language change. He takes as his background some of the major philosophical issues which arise from these considerations,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521459249
• ISBN13: 9780521459242
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"