Directions for Historical Linguistics: Reprint of the 1968 Original

A reprint of one of the classics of historical linguistics (which has been out of print), this book consists of five papers originally presented at a 1966 symposium at the U. of Texas at Austin. Scholars from the US and France address Ferdinand de Saussure’s influence on descriptive and historical analysis in historical linguistics; the connection between inflectional paradigms as an occasional determinant of sound change; the nature of the phoneme and morpheme to arrive at an intermediate entity, the morpho(pho)neme; a framework for examining the modification of morpho-syntactic categories and the rise of new patterns to express them; and language change in contemporary linguistics communities. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)