Linguistic Reconstruction: An Introduction to Theory and Method

by Anthony Fox

Book Overview

How and why are languages constantly changing? Historical linguistics seeks to find out by going beyond the history of individual languages to discover the general principles which underlie language change. But our evidence is severely limited. Most of the world's languages are still unwritten, and even in areas with long written traditions, such as Europe and the Near East, documentary evidence stretches only a little way back along the path of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198700016
• ISBN13: 9780198700012
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"