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- Title
- Historical Linguistics: An Introduction
- Author
- Lyle Campbell
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Publication year
- 1999
- Condition
- good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0262531593
- ISBN 13
- 9780262531597
An accessible introduction to historical linguistics, this work contains many examples and problem sets/exercises to which the students can apply the principles and procedures outlined in each chapter. It deals with essential areas of historical linguistics: grammaticalization, sociolinguistic treatment of linguistic change, remote genetic relationship; areal linguistics and linguistic prehistory.
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About the Author
Lyle Campbell is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. He is the author of fifteen books, including American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America and Historical Syntax in Cross-Linguistic Perspectives (with Alice C. Harris), both of which won the Linguistic Society of America's Leonard Bloomfield Award.
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