Roger Lass

Historical Linguistics and Language Change

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Roger Lass offers a critical survey of the foundations of the art of historical linguistics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 722g
• ISBN-13: 9780521459242
• ISBN-10: 0521459249
• Artikelnr.: 21078004

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
General prologue
1. The past, the present and the historian
2. Written records: evidence and argument
3. Relatedness, ancestry and comparison
4. Convergence and contact
5. The nature of reconstruction
6. Time and change: the shape(s) of history
7. Explanation and ontology
References
Index.