02892nam 2200577Ia 450 991045148540332120200520144314.01-280-60555-30-19-536210-1(CKB)1000000000408957(EBL)430563(OCoLC)435813201(SSID)ssj0000126340(PQKBManifestationID)11143616(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000126340(PQKBWorkID)10032235(PQKB)11743874(MiAaPQ)EBC430563(Au-PeEL)EBL430563(CaPaEBR)ebr10279222(CaONFJC)MIL60555(EXLCZ)99100000000040895719941031d1996 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe comparative method reviewed[electronic resource] regularity and irregularity in language change /edited by Mark Durie, Malcolm RossNew York Oxford University Press19961 online resource (330 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-506607-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-304) and indexes.Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 The Comparative Method as Heuristic; 3 On Sound Change and Challenges to Regularity; 4 Footnotes to a History of Cantonese: Accounting for the Phonological Irregularlties; 5 Early Germanic Umlaut and Variable Rules; 6 The Neogrammarian Hypothesis and Pandemic Irregularity; 7 Regularity of Change in What?; 8 Contact-Induced Change and the Comparative Method: Cases from Papua New Guinea; 9 Reconstruction in Morphology; 10 Natural Tendencies of Semantic Change and the Search for Cognates; Subject Index; Language Index; Name IndexHistorical reconstruction of languages relies on the comparative method, which itself depends on the notion of the regularity of change. The regularity of sound change is the famous Neogrammarian Hypothesis: ""sound change takes place according to laws that admit no exception."" The comparative method, however, is not restricted to the consideration of sound change, and neither is the assumption of regularity. Syntactic, morphological, and semantic change are all amenable in varying degrees, to comparative reconstruction, and each type of change is constrained in ways that enable the researcheComparative linguisticsLinguistic changeElectronic books.Comparative linguistics.Linguistic change.410Durie Mark1958-652751Ross Malcolm801489MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451485403321The comparative method reviewed2113992UNINA