Linguistic reconstruction : an introduction to theory and method

Anthony Fox

How and why are languages constantly changing? Historical lingustics seeks to find out by going beyond the history of individual languages to discover the general principles which underlie language change. But our evidence is severely limited. Most of the world's languages are still unwritten, and even in areas with long written traditions, such as Europe and the Near East, documentary evidence stretches only a little way back along the path of the historical development of languages. How, then, can we uncover our long linguistic prehistory, and what can it tell us about language change? This new textbook is an accessible general guide for students with an elementary knowledge of linguistics to the methods and theoretical bases of linguistic reconstruction, and of newer, less well established principles such as the application of linguistic universals and language typology, and quantitative techniques. Finally he reviews the principles for establishing language relationships and for uncovering information about the homelands and cultures of the prehistoric speakers of reconstructed languages.

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[目次]

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Background in Comparitive Method
  • 3. The Comparitive Method in the Twentieth Century
  • 4. The Comparitive Method: Basic Procedures
  • 5. Comparitive Reconstruction of Morphology, Syntax, and the Lexicon
  • 6. Issues in Comparative Reconstruction
  • 7. Internal Reconstruction
  • 8. Applications and Implications of Internal Reconstruction
  • 9. Reconstructing Language Relationships
  • 10. Language Typology and Linguistic Reconstruction
  • 11. Quantative Methods in Reconstruction
  • 12. Reconstruction, Culture and Society
  • REFERENCES

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書名 Linguistic reconstruction : an introduction to theory and method
著作者等 Fox, Anthony
シリーズ名 Oxford textbooks in linguistics
出版元 Oxford University Press
刊行年月 c1995
ページ数 xvii, 372 p.
大きさ 22 cm
ISBN 0198700008
0198700016
NCID BA24590784
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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