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All languages change, just as other aspects of human society are constantly changing. This book is an introduction to the concepts and techniques of diachronic linguistics, the study of language change over time. It covers all themajor areas of historical linguistics, presenting concepts in a clear and concise way. Examples are given from a wide range of languages, with special emphasis on the languages of Australia and the Pacific. While the needs of undergraduate students of linguistics have been kept firmly in mind, the book will also be of interest to the general reader seeking to understand langauge and language change. For this fourth edition, a number of new sections have been written, including many new problems and several datasets. Existing materials have been supplemented with new sections on grammaticalization, tonogenesis, morphological change, and using statistical methods in language classification.
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All languages change, just as other aspects of human society are constantly changing. This book is an introduction to the concepts and techniques of diachronic linguistics--the study of language change over time. It covers all the major areas of historical linguistics, presenting concepts in a clear and concise way. While examples are given from a wide range of languages, most major concepts and techniques are illustrated by material drawn from the languages of Australia and the Pacific. The needs of undergraduate students of linguistics have been kept firmly in mind, but the book will also be of interest to the general reader seeking to understand language and language change. This third edition includes a number of rewritten and supplemented sections and new material on grammaticalization, ergativity and accusativity, language diversification, palaeolinguistics, and morphological evolution.
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10 人中、8人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
as a textbook
2003/4/2
形式:ペーパーバック
This is a textbook used for my introductory comparative and historical linguistics course. It is a good choice because it is easy to read and to understand. It provides foundation knowledge on languages formation then begins to discuss different topics covered in the comparative and historical linguistics. It gives plenty of exercises for practice and discussion. (unfortunately there is no solution provided) Some of them are pretty challenging and need some thoughts to solve them. I highly recommend this book you all of you.
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Another amazing book by Terry Crowley
2012/2/8
形式:ペーパーバック|Amazonが確認した購入
One of the best things about Terry Crowley is that his books are easy to understand and amazingly interesting. It is so unfortunate that he passed away so early in life. This book was in the process of being written and was polished off after his death by Claire Bowern, who is another leading person in the field of language documentation and fieldwork.
I am using this book for a graduate level class in Linguistics right now. And I have to say that I have read three chapters ahead from the required course speed, precisely because the details are just right and they never draw things out too long or introduce things too early. Furthermore, you can feel the excitement and wonder of the authors while reading through this book (which I do not feel in most textbooks). And it really makes you more and more excited to learn about the origins and evolutions of languages and the changes that they all undergo. Lastly, they take the scientific process of analyzing and dissecting patterns and behaviors and somehow add color and life to something that you might otherwise expect to be bland and boring.
If you are at all interested in either Linguistics or the dynamic "life" of languages (both historically and also looking into the future), I would highly recommend this book!
I am using this book for a graduate level class in Linguistics right now. And I have to say that I have read three chapters ahead from the required course speed, precisely because the details are just right and they never draw things out too long or introduce things too early. Furthermore, you can feel the excitement and wonder of the authors while reading through this book (which I do not feel in most textbooks). And it really makes you more and more excited to learn about the origins and evolutions of languages and the changes that they all undergo. Lastly, they take the scientific process of analyzing and dissecting patterns and behaviors and somehow add color and life to something that you might otherwise expect to be bland and boring.
If you are at all interested in either Linguistics or the dynamic "life" of languages (both historically and also looking into the future), I would highly recommend this book!
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There are better textbooks...
2011/11/3
形式:ペーパーバック
I have found myself wanting to throw this book out my window on several occasions because the examples are so inaccessible for most of the book, and the chapter on observing language change is laughable, at best. If you're taking a Historical Linguistics class, pray your instructor is using a different book, or do yourself a favor and buy Lyle Campbell's book as a supplement; it's much more clear, and the examples are not derived from a bunch of Polynesian languages. It helps if you have some familiarity with the languages used to illustrate the change or theory at hand, and this text falls very much short of that, which seems like a pedagogical misstep.
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