辛朵尔编著的《历史语言学》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。
This is a series of brief surveys
intended for readers new to the formal study
of language.Each book contains four parts:
SURVEY
An up-to-date overview of the area
concerned
READINGS
Short readings with study questions
REFERENCES
A selection of annotated references
GLOSSARY
Explanations of terms, cross referenced
to the Survey
This structure is designed to allow
different groups of readers to focus on
different parts of the book according to
their interest and need.
Should we be concerned that language
iscorrupted by change? This book will try to
provide an answer by looking at the central
issues of historical linguistics. How and
why do languages change? How can we
reconstruct older stages of languages? How
are languages born and why do they die? Do
they have relatives?
目录
Preface
SECTION I
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
Language contact
Borrowing from other languages
Convergence and linguistic areas
Language birth: pidgins and creoles
Language death
How and why do languages change?
Functional explanations
Psycholinguistic explanations: language acquisition
Sociolinguistic explanations
The origin and spread of changes
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
