Ebook: Trask's Historical Linguistics

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Exercises; List of illustrations; To the reader; To the teacher; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 The fact of language change; 1.1 Chilled; 1.2 English then and now; 1.3 Attitudes to language change; 1.4 The inevitability of change; Case study: bonk!; Further reading; Exercises; 2 Lexical and semantic change; 2.1 Borrowing; 2.2 Phonological treatment of loans; 2.3 Morphological treatment of loans; 2.4 Formation of new words; 2.5 Change in word-meaning; Case study: nice; Further reading; Exercises.;Trask's Historical Linguistics, Third Edition, is an accessible introduction to historical linguistics - the study of language change over time. This engaging book is illustrated with language examples from all six continents, and covers the fundamental concepts of language change, methods for historical linguistics, linguistic reconstruction, sociolinguistic aspects of language change, language contact, the birth and death of languages, language and prehistory and the issue of very remote relations. This third edition of the renowned Trask's Historical Linguistics is fully revised and updated.