Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics

<p><em>The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics</em> provides a survey of the field covering the methods which underpin current work; models of language change; and the importance of historical linguistics for other subfields of linguistics and other disciplines. </p> <p></p> <p>Divided into five sections the volume encompass a wide range of approaches and addresses issues in the following areas: </p> <p></p> <ul> <p> <li>historical perspectives</li> <p></p> <p> <li>methods and models</li> <p></p> <p> <li>language change</li> <p></p> <p> <li>interfaces</li> <p></p> <p> <li>regional summaries</li> <p></p></ul> <p></p> <p>Each of the thirty-two chapters is written by a specialist in the field and provides: a introduction to the subject; an analysis of the relationship between the diachronic and synchronic study of the topic; an overview of the main current and critical trends; and examples from primary data. <em>The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics</em> is essential reading for researchers and postgraduate students working in this area.</p> <p><em>Chapter 28 of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access at www.tandfebooks.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.</em></p> <p> </p>