All languages change, just as other aspects of human society are
constantly changing. This book is an introduction to the concepts
and techniques of diachronic linguistics, the study of language
change over time. It covers all themajor areas of historical
linguistics, presenting concepts in a clear and concise way.
Examples are given from a wide range of languages, with special
emphasis on the languages of Australia and the Pacific. While the
needs of undergraduate students of linguistics have been kept
firmly in mind, the book will also be of interest to the general
reader seeking to understand langauge and language change.
For this fourth edition, a number of new sections have been
written, including many new problems and several datasets. Existing
materials have been supplemented with new sections on
grammaticalization, tonogenesis, morphological change, and using
statistical methods in language classification.
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