Historical Linguistics and Language Change (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Historical Linguistics and Language Change (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics) Book

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 here offers a critical survey of the foundations of the art of historical linguistics, and its interaction with its subject matter, language change, taking as his background some of the major philosophical issues which arise from these considerations. The paradoxical conclusion is that our historiographical methods are often better than the data they have to work with.Read More

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  • 0521459249
  • 9780521459242
  • Roger Lass
  • 3 April 1997
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 448
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