ISBN10: 0198700016, ISBN13: 9780198700012, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Softcover New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1.21
[North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1995]

Paperback / softback. New. Recent textbooks in historical linguistics concentrate more on the theory of language change than on methods of linguistic reconstruction. This book redresses the balance, providing a general guide to methods and theories of linguistic of languages. It describes both traditional and newer, less well established techniques. ISBN 0198700016 9780198700012 [GB]

Oxford University Press, Date: 1995-04-27. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1995. Oxford University Press ISBN 0198700016 9780198700012 [US]

Oxford, England OUP Oxford 1995 Trade paperback New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 390 p. Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics.

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[Amherst, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1995]

ISBN10: 0198700016, ISBN13: 9780198700012, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Softcover Paperback. How and why are languages constantly changing? Historical lingustics seeks to find out by going beyond the history of individual languages to discover the general principles which underlie language change. But our evidence is severely limited. Most of the world's languages are still unwritten, and even in areas with long written traditions, such as Europe and the Near East, documentary evidence stretches only a little way back along the path of the historicaldevelopment of languages. How, then, can we uncover our long linguistic prehistory, and what can it tell us about language change?This new textbook is an accessible general guidefor students with an elementary knowledge of linguistics to the methods and theoretical bases of linguistic reconstruction, and of newer, less well established principles such as the application of linguistic universals and language typology, and quantitative techniques. Finally he reviews the principles for establishing language relationships and for uncovering information about the homelands and cultures of the prehistoric speakers of reconstructed languages. Recent textbooks in historical linguistics concentrate more on the theory of language change than on methods of linguistic reconstruction. This book redresses the balance, providing a general guide to methods and theories of linguistic of languages. It describes both ...
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ISBN10: 0198700016, ISBN13: 9780198700012, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Softcover
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