Phonological Drift and Language Contact
The Northwest European Phonological Area
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 5 June 2025
- ISBN 9781108497381
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages342 pages
- Size 235x160x24 mm
- Weight 640 g
- Language English 703
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Short description:
Using advances in linguistic theory this book explains multiple unusual sound patterns that occur in different languages of northern Europe.
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Several language families of northern Europe - Germanic, Celtic, and Uralic - share phonetic and phonological patterns that are typologically unusual. This book demonstrates how we can better understand these convergences: they exemplify the phenomenon of drift. Using the latest advances in theoretical linguistics, the study of sound change, and language variation, it offers insights into the development of these features and what they tell us about past cultural and linguistic contacts. Although the languages are not closely related, an understanding of drift grounded in the theory of the life cycle of phonological patterns reveals the workings of convergent developments. Covering a wide range of vernacular varieties, this book shows how phonological microvariation is illuminated by an approach grounded in the theory of the life cycle and historical sociolinguistics. It is essential reading for historical and theoretical linguists, and anyone with an interest in the cultural and linguistic contacts across northern Europe.
'This is an important book. I've been working on the empirical and theoretical issues treated here my whole career and I learned a lot from Iosad's discussion. It provides real progress on and refinement of the long-problematic notion of 'drift' and applies that to prehistoric Northern Europe in a sober and compelling way.' Joe Salmons, Professor of Language Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Table of Contents:
Introduction; 1. Setting the scene; 2. Research context; 3. Theoretical background; 4. The sychrony and diachrony of preaspiration; 5. North Germanic; 6. Celtic; 7. The Sámi Languages; 8. Preaspiration and language contact; 9. Conclusion.
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