历史语言学
2003-2
上海外语教育出版社
辛朵尔
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《历史语言学》是“牛津语言学入门丛书”之一，是一部介绍历史语言学有关语言变化的研究方法和研究成果的导论性著作。全书介绍了人们对语言变化的态度、语言变化的规律、语言演变的过程、不同语言之间的接触与交流等，使读者对语言的形成与发展、各语言的亲缘关系等有一个较为全面的认识。 “牛津语言学入门丛书”的读者对象是英语专业高年级学生，语言学、应用语言学与相关专业研究生以及对相应领域感兴趣的人员。
Preface
SECTION 1
Survey
1 Language change as a matter of fact
Attitudes to language change
Language state and process
The aims and scope of historical linguistics
2 Reconstructing the past: data and evidence
The data of historical linguistics
The written evidence
Sources of evidence
Comparing and reconstructing languages
Correspondences between languages
Laws of change
Internal reconstruction
3 Vocabulary change
Coining new words
Changes of meaning
Why do word meanings change?
4 Grammatical change
Morphological change
Syntactic change
5 Sound change
How sounds are produced
Phonetic change
Phonemic change
6 Language contact
Borrowing from other languages
Convergence and linguistic areas
Language birth: pidgins and creoles
Language death
7 How and why do languages change?
Functional explanations
Psycholinguistic explanations: language acquisition
Sociolinguistic explanations
The origin and spread of changes
8 Postscript: further developments
Socio-historical linguistics and historical pragmatics
Evolutionary linguistics
Standardization and language planning
Conclusion
SECTION 2
Readings
SECTION 3
References
SECTION 4
Glossary
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