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Historical Linguistics : An Introduction by Lyle Campbell is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Historical Linguistics : An Introduction about?
"Historical linguistics is the study of how and why language changes - both the methods of investigating language change and the theories designed to explain these changes. This highly accessible introductory text takes a hands-on, how-to approach, rather than just talking about the subject as many texts do. The book contains abundant examples both from familiar European languages, to make the topics accessible, and from a variety of non-European languages, to illustrate the depth and range of the concepts. The book also covers a number of essential topics neglected by most texts, including syntactic change, methods for investigating distant genetic relationship, linguistic prehistory, and grammaticalization."--BOOK JACKET
Who reads Historical Linguistics : An Introduction?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Lyle Campbell
- Publisher
- THE MIT PRESS
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780585156477
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Historical Fiction, Linguistics, Language Learning
- Rating
- 3.93 / 5 (189 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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