Buch, Englisch, 672 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 907 g
Buch, Englisch, 672 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 907 g
ISBN: 978-0-631-17914-6
Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
This book develops the general principles of linguistic change that form the foundations of historical linguistics, dialectology and sociolinguistics. - Demonstrates the social as well as cognitive relevance of linguistic research
- Shows that rapid linguistic change is in progress in the cities of America and England so that urban dialects are becoming more and more differentiated
- Discusses factors that govern the internal development of linguistic structures: the mechanisms of change, the constraints on change, and the ways in which change is embedded in the larger linguistic system
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Weitere Infos & Material
Editor's Preface.
Notational Conventions.
Acknowledgements.
Introduction: The Plan of the Work as a Whole.
Part I: Introduction and Methodology:.
1. The Use of the Present to Explain the Past.
2. An Overview of the Issues.
3. The Study of Change in Progress: Observations in Apparent Time.
4. The Study of Change in Progress: Observations in Real Time.
Part II: Chain Shifting:.
5. General Principles of Vowel Shifting.
6. Chain Shifts in Progress.
7. Resolution of the Paradoxes.
8. Reduction of the Rules and Principles.
9. Chain Shifts across Subsystems.
Part III: Mergers and Splits:.
10. Some Impossible Unmergings.
11. The General Properties of Mergers and Splits.
12. Near-Mergers.
13. The Explanation of Unmergings.
14. The Suspension of Phonemic Contrast.
Part IV: The Regularity Controversy:.
15. Evidence for Lexical Diffusion.
16. Expanding the Neogrammarian Viewpoint.
17. Regular Sound Change in English Dialect Geography.
18. A Proposed Resolution of the Regularity Question.
Part V: The Functional Character of Change:.
19. The Overestimation of Functionalism.
20. The Maintenance of Meaning.
21. The Principles Reviewed.
References.
Index.
