{"product_id":"the-routledge-handbook-of-historical-linguistics-9780367250294","title":"The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics\u003c\/em\u003e provides a survey of the field covering the methods which underpin current work; models of language change; and the importance of historical linguistics for other subfields of linguistics and other disciplines. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDivided into five sections, the volume encompass a wide range of approaches and addresses issues in the following areas: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003ehistorical perspectives\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003emethods and models\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003elanguage change\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003einterfaces\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003eregional summaries\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach of the thirty-two chapters is written by a specialist in the field and provides: a introduction to the subject; an analysis of the relationship between the diachronic and synchronic study of the topic; an overview of the main current and critical trends; and examples from primary data. \u003cem\u003eThe Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics\u003c\/em\u003e is essential reading for researchers and postgraduate students working in this area.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 28 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https: \/\/www.routledgehandbooks.com\/doi\/10.4324\/9781315794013.ch28\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eClaire Bowern is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Yale University. Her research focuses on the Indigenous languages of Australia, and is concerned with documentation\/description and prehistory. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBethwyn Evans is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, but will take up a position as Research Fellow in Linguistics at the Australian National University in 2012. Her current research centres on issues of language history and contact with a focus on the languages of Melanesia. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50323695894802,"sku":"9780367250294","price":67.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_bea93915-ab49-4969-bfce-a66a2743f9ad.jpg?v=1727660748","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-routledge-handbook-of-historical-linguistics-9780367250294","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}