An introduction to historical linguistics /
Terry Crowley and Claire Bowern.
- 4th ed.
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- xxxii, 376 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
JRT Cabazares (Recommending faculty) AY 2022-2023
Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-367) and index.
Types of sound change -- Expressing sound changes -- Phonetic and phonemic change -- The comparative method (1): procedures -- Determining relatedness -- Internal reconstruction -- Computational and statistical methods -- The comparative method (2): history and challenges -- Morphological change -- Semantic and lexical change -- Syntactic change -- Observing language change -- Language contact -- Cultural reconstruction.