Historical Linguistics, (6 Volume Set)

Historical linguistics is concerned with the way languages change over time, looking both at the distant past and at the present day, and taking as its point of departure the truism that the only constant in language is that it is always changing. This new title from Routledge’s Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Linguistics, assembles in six volumes foundational and canonical pieces, together with the very best cutting-edge research, from this rich and flourishing field.

With a full index, together with a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editors, which places the collected material in its intellectual context, Historical Linguistics is an essential work of reference. The collection will be particularly useful as an essential database allowing scattered and often fugitive material to be easily located. It will also be welcomed as a crucial tool permitting rapid access to less familiar - and sometimes overlooked - texts. It is a vital one-stop research and pedagogic resource.

Volume I : Conceptual Bases

Chapter 1 : Cours de linguistique générale Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye
Chapter 2 : Language : An Introduction to The Study of Speech
Chapter 3 : Abductive and Deductive Change : Language
Chapter 4 : On The Notion "Explanation" in Historical Linguistics : Historical Linguistics II : Theory and Description in Phonology
Chapter 5 : Diachronic Explanation : Putting Speakers Back Into The Picture : Explanation in Historical Linguistics
Chapter 6 : Understanding Linguistic Innovations : Language Change : Contributions to The Study of its Causes
Chapter 7 : Transmission and Diffusion : Language
Chapter 8 : An Examination of The Evidence for OE Indirect Passives : Linguistic Inquiry

Volume II  : Causes of Change

Part 1 : Physiological Factors
Chapter 9 : The Listener as a Source of Sound Change : Chicago Linguistic Society

Part 2 : Psychological/Cognitive Factors
Chapter 10 : Phonology in Generative Grammar
Chapter 11 : The Suffixing Preference : A Processing Explanation : Linguistics
Chapter 12 : Cognitive Processes in Grammaticalization : The New Psychology of Language

Part 3 : Functional Factors
Chapter 13 : Function, Structure, and Sound Change
Chapter 14 : An Explanation of Drift : Word Order and Word Order Change
Chapter 15 : Word Frequency and Context of Use in The Lexical Diffusion of Phonetically Conditioned Sound Change : Language Variation and Change

Part 4 : Social Factors
Chapter 16 : Adolescent Social Structure and The Spread of Linguistic Change : Language in Society
Chapter 17 : The Social Motivation of a Sound Change
Chapter 18 : Sex, Covert Prestige and Linguistic Change in The Urban British English of Norwich : Language in Society

Volume III : Methods in Historical Linguistics

Part 1 : Comparative Method and Family-Tree Models
Chapter 19 : The Comparative Method in Historical Linguistics
Chapter 20 : A Note on Sound Change : Language
Chapter 21 : The Principal Step in Comparative Grammar : Language
Chapter 22 : The Languages of Africa
Chapter 23 : Review of Language in The Americas by Joseph Greenberg, Language
Chapter 24 : Etymologies, Equations, and Comparanda : Types and Values, and Criteria for Judgment : Linguistic Change and Reconstruction Methodology
Chapter 25 : Swallow Tales : Chance and The "World Etymology" MALIQ’A "Swallow, Throat" : Chicago Linguistic Society
Chapter 26 : Some Draft Principles for Classification : Nostratic : Sifting The Evidence

Part 2 : Computational/Statistical/MaThematical Methods
Chapter 27 : Language-Tree Divergence Times Support The Anatolian Theory of Indo-European Origin : Nature
Chapter 28 : A Stochastic Model of Language Evolution that Incorporates Homoplasy and Borrowing : Phylogenetic Methods and The Prehistory of Languages
Chapter 29 : Why Linguists Don’t Do Dates : Evidence from Indo-European and Australian Languages : Phylogenetic Methods and The Prehistory of Languages
Chapter 30 : Salishan Internal Relationships : International Journal of American Linguistics
Chapter 31 : On The Validity of Glottochronology : Current Anthropology
Chapter 32 : On The Rate of Replacement of Word–Meaning Relationships : Language
Chapter 33 : From Words to Dates : Water into Wine, MaThemagic or Phylogenetic Inference? : Transactions of The Philological Society

Part 3 : Results : Some Controversial Cases
Chapter 34 : The Prehistory of Languages
Chapter 35 : Algonquian, Wiyot, and Yurok : Proving a Distant Genetic Relationship : Linguistics and Anthropology : In Honor of C. F. Voegelin
Chapter 36 : The Quechumaran HypoThesis and Lessons for Distant Genetic Comparison : Diachronica
Chapter 37 : Japanese and What OTher Altaic Languages : Linguistic Change and Reconstruction Methodology
Chapter 38 : Origin and Relatives of The Basque Language : Review of The Evidence : Towards a History of The Basque Language
Chapter 39 : The Comparative Method and Ventures Beyond Sino-Tibetan : Journal of Chinese Linguistics

Part 4 : Comparative and Internal, at The Phonological Level and Beyond
Chapter 40 : A propos de oistos : Festschrift für Paul Kretschmer
Chapter 41 : Towards Proto-Indo-European Syntax : Problems and Pseudo-Problems : Chicago Linguistic Society
Chapter 42 : lgonquian Linguistic Change and Reconstruction : Linguistic Change and Reconstruction Methodology
Chapter 43 : Internal Reconstruction in Seneca : Language

Part 5 : Typologically Based Methodology in Reconstruction
Chapter 44 : Typological Studies and Their Contribution to Historical Comparative Linguistics : Proceedings of The Eighth International Congress of Linguists
Chapter 45 : Language Typology and Indo-European Reconstruction : The New Sound of Indo-European : Essays in Phonological Reconstruction
Chapter 46 : Typology Versus Reconstruction : Bono Homini Donum : Essays in Historical Linguistics in Honor of J : Alexander Kerns
Chapter 47 : Did Proto-Indo-European have Glottalized Stops? : Diachronica
Chapter 48 : Implicational Universals as Predictors of Word Order Change : Language
Chapter 49 : Synchronic and Diachronic Universals in Phonology : Language
Chapter 50 : Universals Constrain Change, Change Results in Typological Generalizations : Linguistic Universals and Language Change

Volume IV : Types and Outcomes of Change

Part 1 : Sound Change
Chapter 51 : The Nature of Sound Change : A Course in Modern Linguistics
Chapter 52 : A Generative View of Historical Linguistics : Romance Philology
Chapter 53 : Resolving The Neogrammarian Controversy : Language
Chapter 54 : Competing Changes as a Cause of Residue : Language
Chapter 55 : Each Word has a History of its Own : Glossa
Chapter 56 : The Phonological Basis of Sound Change : The Handbook of Phonological Theory
Chapter 57 : Language
Chapter 58 : Utterance-Finality : Framing The Issues : Proceedings of LP ’98
Chapter 59 : The Phonetics of Sound Change : Historical Linguistics : Problems and Perspectives

Part 2 : Morphological Change
Chapter 60 : Analogical Change : The Handbook of Historical Linguistics
Chapter 61 : The How and Why of Diachronic Morphologization and Demorphologization : Theoretical Morphology : Approaches in Modern Linguistics
Chapter 62 : Phonetic Analogy and Conceptual Analogy : Schuchardt, The Neogrammarians, and The Transformational Theory of Phonological Change : Four Essays
Chapter 63 : Jerzy Kurylowicz : The So-Called Laws of Analogy
Chapter 64 : Analogy as a Source of Morphological Complexity : Folia Linguistica Historica
Chapter 65 : On Some Principles of Grammaticalization : Approaches to Grammaticalization
Chapter 66 : Why is Grammaticalization Irreversible? : Linguistics
Chapter 67 : What’s Wrong with Grammaticalization? : Language Sciences

Volume V : Typed and Outcomes of Change

Chapter 68 : Analogical Change as a Problem in Linguistic Theory : Linguistics in The Seventies : Directions and Prospects
Chapter 69 : Analogy Reconsidered : Historical Linguistics II : Theory and Description in Phonology
Chapter 70 : How Does a Language Acquire Gender Markers? : Universals of Human Languages
Chapter 71 : Rules and Schemas in The Development and Use of The English Past Tense : Language

Part 1 : Syntactic Change
Chapter 72 : Historical Syntax and Synchronic Morphology : An Archaeologist’s Field Trip : Chicago Linguistic Society
Chapter 73 : Reflexes of Grammar in Patterns of Language Change : Language Variation and Change
Chapter 74 : Does Grammaticalization Need Reanalysis? : Studies in Language
Chapter 75 : Mutations of Linguistic Categories : Directions for Historical Linguistics
Chapter 76 : Syntactic Change : Syntax
Chapter 77 : An Explanation of Word Order Change SOV > SOV : Foundations of Language
Chapter 78 : Reanalysis and Actualization in Syntactic Change : Mechanisms of Syntactic Change
Chapter 79 : Grammaticalisation, The Clausal Hierarchy and Semantic Bleaching : Gradience, Gradualness and Grammaticalization

Part 2 : Semantic/Lexical Change
Chapter 80 : Color Appearance and The Emergence and Evolution of Basic Color Lexicons : American Anthropologist
Chapter 81 : On The Rise of Epistemic Meanings in English : An Example of Subjectification in Semantic Change : Language

Volume VI : The Social Dimension to Language Change

Part 1 : The Relationship Between Synchronic Variation and Change
Chapter 82 : Empirical Foundations for a Theory of Language Change : Directions for Historical Linguistics : A Symposium
Chapter 83 : Language Change Across The Lifespan

Part 2 : Diffusion of Innovations
Chapter 84 : Bartoli’s "Second Norm" : Historical Dialectology
Chapter 85 : Linguistic Change, Social Network and Speaker Innovation : Journal of Linguistics
Chapter 86 : Linguistic Change and Diffusion : Description and Explanation in Sociolinguistic Dialect Geography : Language in Society

Part 3 : Linguistic Areas
Chapter 87 : India as a Linguistic Area : Language
Chapter 88 : Yugoslavia : A Crossroads of Sprachbünde : Zeitschrift für Balkanologie
Chapter 89 : Convergence and Creolization : A Case from The Indo-Aryan/Dravidian Border in India : Pidginization and Creolization of Languages
Chapter 90 : Proposition 16 : Actes du Premier congrès international de linguistes
Chapter 91 : Linguistic Areas and Language History : Languages in Contact

Part 4 : Borrowing and OTher Contact-Induced Changes
Chapter 92 : The Analysis of Linguistic Borrowing : Language
Chapter 93 : The Failure of Linguistic Constraints on Interference : Language Contact, Creolization, and Genetic Linguistics
Chapter 94 : Contact-Induced Changes : Classification and Processes : Diachronica
Chapter 95 : Bilingualism and Language Change : The Extension of Estar in Los Angeles Spanish

Part 5 : Language Shift and Language Death
Chapter 96 : The Fate of Morphological Complexity in Language Death : Evidence from East SuTherland Gaelic : Language
Chapter 97 : Moribund Dialects and The Language Endangerment Canon : The Case of The Ocracoke Brogue : Language

Part 6 : Contact Outcomes, Pidginization, and Creolization
Chapter 98 : Contact-Induced Language Change and Pidgin/Creole Genesis
Chapter 99 : Language Birth and Death : Annual Review of Anthropology
Chapter 100 : Colonial Dialect Contact in The History of European Languages : On The Irrelevance of Identity to New-Dialect Formation : Language in Society

Part 7 : Historical Linguistics and (Pre-) History and Culture
Chapter 101 : The Epicenter of The Indo-European Linguistic Spread : Archaeology and Language I : Theoretical and Methodological Orientations
Chapter 102 : The Homelands of The Indo-Europeans : Archaeology and Language I : Theoretical and Methodological Orientations
Chapter 103 : Review of Archaeology and Language by Colin Renfrew, Language
Chapter 104 : Language Distribution and Migration Theory : Language
Chapter 105 : New Parameters in Historical Linguistics, Philology, and Culture History