Historical Linguistics 1989
| Author | : Henk Aertsen |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 558 |
| Release | : 1993-08-13 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9789027277053 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9027277052 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (052 Downloads) |
Download or read book Historical Linguistics 1989 written by Henk Aertsen and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1993-08-13 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume contains revised versions of selected papers from the general sessions of ICHL 9. The 34 papers cover topics from the full range of contemporary historical linguistic scholarship. The papers address issues of language change in a large variety of languages and language families, both Indo-European and non-Indo-European: students of Germanic linguistics will likely find the volume to be of particular interest, as more than a dozen contributions deal with developments in Afrikaans, Dutch, English, German and Icelandic. The volume includes an index of names and languages.
