The comparative method reviewed : regularity and irregularity in language change / / edited by Mark Durie, Malcolm Ross

• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 1996
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (330 p.)
• Disciplina: 410
• Soggetto topico: Comparative linguistics; Linguistic change
• Altri autori: DurieMark <1958-> RossMalcolm
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 1996.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-304) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume draws together previously unpublished papers by linguists engaged in historical reconstruction. The main subject of the work is regularity and irregularity in the comparative method. A number of language families are represented.
• Titolo autorizzato: The comparative method reviewed
• ISBN: 0-19-772142-7; 1-280-60555-3; 0-19-536210-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910825085203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford scholarship online.