The Life Cycle of Language
Past, Present, and Future
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 30 November 2023
- ISBN 9780192845818
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages496 pages
- Size 242x160x33 mm
- Weight 910 g
- Language English 558
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Short description:
This volume brings together an international group of linguists from a diverse range of research backgrounds to explore the cycles of change in the world's languages. The chapters in this book draw on data both from languages from the distant past, such as Hittite and Proto-Bantu, and from a wide range of present-day languages.
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This volume brings together an international group of linguists from a diverse range of research backgrounds to explore the cycles of change in the world's languages. Historical linguistics does not solely focus on reconstructing a language's linguistic past and exploring the mechanisms underlying previous language changes; it also addresses broader questions concerning the development and ongoing evolution of language. The chapters in this book draw on data both from languages from the distant past, such as Hittite, Proto-Turkic, and Proto-Bantu, and from present-day languages including Akan, Cantonese, Kuuk Thaayorre, Seliš-Ql'ispé, Nivaclé, and Spanish. The contributions showcase current research in historical linguistics and exemplify the dynamism and inherently interdisciplinary nature of the field.
I warmly recommend the volume to potential readers. This is a significant publication that offers new and invaluable academic insights into the underlying dynamics of different kinds of language change phenomena at different linguistic levels and related research interfaces.
Table of Contents:
Part I. Reconstructing the past
The fall and rise of vowel length in Bantu
The rise and fall of rounding harmony in Turkic
The life cycle of the Kuuk Thaayorre desiderative
Akan morphological 'reversal' in historical context
Increasing morphological mismatch via category loss: The Spanish future subjunctive
Toward a non-teleological account of demonstrative reinforcement
Typology and history of unusual traits in Nivaclé
Greek ??*w?? and the perfect of PIE *?neh3 'know'
The surface position of Hittite subordinating kuit
PIE *meh2- 'grow, be fruitful' and Proto-Basque *ma, *maha 'fruit': An apple by any other name...
Part II. Philological and documentary past and present
Paradigm structure in Sanskrit reduplicants
Sound symbolic words in Séliš;-Ql'ispé
Tone and morphological structure in a documentation-based grammar of Choguita Rarámuri
The structure of dialect diversity in Mono: Evidence from the Sydney M. Lamb papers
Recovering prosody from Karuk texts: Deciphering J. P. Harrington's diacritics
Stylistic differentiation in California Dene texts
Winter story themes in Meskwaki: Familiar creatures seen with new eyes
The material and the textual in documentation of Native American languages
Community-participatory orthography development in the Máíj?n? communities of Peruvian Amazonia
The value of family relations for revitalization
Part III. Looking forward: New approaches
Sound structure and the psycholinguistics of language contact
Child-directed speech as a potential source of phonetic precursor enhancement in sound change: Evidence from Cantonese
Paradigmatic heterogeneity and homogenization: Probing Paul's principle
Language change in small-scale multilingual societies: Trees, waves, and magnets?
Gradualness and abruptness in linguistic split: A Nyulnyulan case study
The Life Cycle of Language: Past, Present, and Future
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