The Dictionary of Historical and Comparative Linguistics - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1579582184 ISBN 13: 9781579582180

Publisher: Routledge, 2001

Synopsis

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Review

"Recommended for specialized collections and academic libraries."
-"Library Journal
"This dictionary is very good....It will be most useful to every beginning and fairly progressed student of language."
-"American Reference Books Annual
"The first dictionary devoted to historical linguistics, the oldest scholarly branch of the discipline, this book fills a need. Most terms, laws, techniques, and processes that it defines are not listed in existing general or specialized dictionaries of linguistics....The book's high quality and uniqueness make this a necessary purchase for all academic and many public libraries."
-"Choice, January 2001

Synopsis

Historical and comparative linguistics has been a major scholarly discipline for over 200 years, and yet this is the first dictionary ever devoted to it. With nearly 2,400 entries, the Dictionary of Historical & Comparative Linguistics covers every aspect of the subject, from the most venerable work to the exciting advances of the last few years - many of which have not yet even made it into the textbooks. All of the traditional terms are here, but so are the terms introduced only recently, in connection with such varied subjects as pidgin and creole languages, the sociolinguistic study of language change, mathematical and computational methods, the novel approaches to linguistic geography, the controversial proposals of new and vast language families, and the attempts at relating the theories of historical linguistics to those of archaeologists, the anthropologists, and geneticists. More than just a dictionary, this book provides genuine linguistic examples of most of the terms entered, detailed explanations of fundamental concepts, critical assessments of controversial ideas, cross-references to related terms, and an abundance of references to the original literature.

Outstanding Academic Book - Choice

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1579582184
• ISBN 13: 9781579582180
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 403
• Editor: Trask R.L.