In:Historical and Comparative Linguistics
Raimo Anttila
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 6] 1989
► pp. v–viii
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Published online: 1 January 1989
https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.6.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.6.toc
Table of contents
Introductionix
Part I. Background: genetic linguistics in relation to general linguistics and related fields
1. Language and linguistics3
2. Writing and language31
3. Linguistic variation47
Part II. Historical linguistics: how does language change
4. Sound change57
5. Grammar change: analogy88
6. Rule change109
7. Semantic change133
8. External change: borrowing154
9. Why does language change? Social and linguistic factors179
Part III. Comparative linguistics (general notions and structure): how can change be reversed?
10. Preliminaries to the historical methods207
11. The comparative method (the central concept)229
12. Internal reconstruction264
13. Conclusion to the methods274
Part IV. Linguistic reconstruction: A synthesis of various linguistic and cultural notions
114. Dialect geography289
15. Alternative relationship models300
16. Classification of languages310
17. Philology and etymology323
18. Reconstructing Phonology335
19. Reconstructing grammar351
20. Reconstructing semology/semantics364
Part V. Conclusion: linguistics as part of anthropology
21. Change and reconstruction in culture and linguistics377
22. Genetic linguistics and biological genetics389
23. Genetic linguistics and metatheory399
Bibliography413
Index449
