Author: Marc Picard
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773511712
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Arapaho, a western Algonkian language, is still spoken on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming. Phonologically modern Arapaho looks very "un-Algonkian," for it has undergone a rather startling number of sound changes. In this study Marc Picard attempts to use the phonological history of Arapaho as a vehicle to explore various possibilities for making accurate inferences about the chronological order of sound changes. His ultimate goal is to provide a methodology that can be applied successfully to other languages that, like Arapaho, have no recorded history.
Author: Robert J. Jeffers
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262600110
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 223
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Intended for use in advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate courses, this text presents a wide survey of methodological procedures and theoretical positions.
Author: Barry J. Blake
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9789027247490
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 462
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This is a selection of papers from the 15th International Conference on Historical Linguistics held in Melbourne 13-17 August 2001, hosted by the Linguistics Program at La Trobe University. The papers range from the general theoretical to the study of particular languages and embrace most areas of linguistics, particularly morpho-syntax.
Author: Patrick Honeybone
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199232814
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 817
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This critical overview examines every aspect of the field including its history, key current research questions and methods, theoretical perspectives, and sociolinguistic factors. The authors represent leading proponents of every theoretical perspective. The book is a valuable resource for phonologists and a stimulating guide for their students.
Author: Marc Picard
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773564616
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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Picard's methodology has three stages: establishing the sound correspondences between a source language (such as Proto-Algonkian) and a target language (such as Arapaho); exploiting the concept of naturalness in phonological change to the fullest in order to construct working hypotheses as to what the most likely historical processes could have been, and to determine in a nonarbitrary fashion which processes could have taken place simultaneously; and ordering these processes in accordance with the various feeding, bleeding, counterfeeding, and counterbleeding relations that exist between a great many pairs of diachronic processes. Picard applies his theoretical assumptions to a detailed development and analysis of the phonological changes that have taken place between Proto-Algonkian and modern Arapaho. In addition he provides a segment-by-segment derivation of over two hundred lexical items, showing exactly which sound changes have applied in each case. Principles and Methods in Historical Phonology is a valuable addition to historical studies of Algonkian languages and will be of particular interest to Algonkianists as well as linguists in general.
Author: Patrick Honeybone
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191643645
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 817
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This book presents a comprehensive and critical overview of historical phonology as it stands today. Scholars from around the world consider and advance research in every aspect of the field. In doing so they demonstrate the continuing vitality and some continuing themes of one of the oldest sub-disciplines of linguistics. The book is divided into six parts. The first considers key current research questions, the early history of the field, and the structuralist context for work on segmental change. The second examines evidence and methods, including phonological reconstruction, typology, and computational and quantitative approaches. Part III looks at types of phonological change, including stress, tone, and morphophonological change. Part IV explores a series of controversial aspects within the field, including the effects of first language acquisition, the status of lexical diffusion and exceptionless change, and the role of individuals in innovation. Part V considers theoretical perspectives on phonological change, including those of evolutionary phonology and generative historical phonology. The final part examines sociolinguistic and exogenous factors in phonological change, including the study of change in real time, the role of second language acquisition, and loanword adaptation. The authors, who represent leading proponents of every theoretical perspective, consider phonological change over a wide range of the world's language families. The handbook is, in sum, a valuable resource for phonologists and historical linguists and a stimulating guide for their students.
Author: Nikolaj Sergeevič Trubeckoj
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520015357
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Publisher: UM Libraries
ISBN:
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 1088
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Author: Brian Joseph
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470756330
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 904
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The Handbook of Historical Linguistics provides a detailed account of the numerous issues, methods, and results that characterize current work in historical linguistics, the area of linguistics most directly concerned with language change as well as past language states. Contains an extensive introduction that places the study of historical linguistics in its proper context within linguistics and the historical sciences in general Covers the methodology of historical linguistics and presents sophisticated overviews of the principles governing phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic change Includes contributions from the leading specialists in the field
Author: H. Ekkehard Wolff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316519546
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 495
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Drawing on extensive field data, this groundbreaking work explores the development of the sound systems of Central Chadic languages.
