| Historical Linguistics and Language Change Contributor(s): Lass, Roger (Author) |
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ISBN: 0511620926 ISBN-13: 9780511620928 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $213.75 Product Type: Open Ebook - Other Formats Published: June 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Sign Language |
| Dewey: 417.7 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Language change happens in the spatio-temporal world. Historical linguistics is the craft linguists exercise upon its results, in order to tell coherent stories about it. In a series of linked essays Roger Lass offers a critical survey of the foundations of the art of historical linguistics, and its interaction with its subject matter, language change, taking as his background some of the major philosophical issues that arise from these considerations. The paradoxical conclusion is that our historiographical methods are often better than the data they have to work with. |