Language history, language change, and language relationship: An introduction to historical and comparative linguistics

Item

Title

Language history, language change, and language relationship: An introduction to historical and comparative linguistics

Creator

Hans Henrich Hock and Brian Joseph

Contributor

Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Library

Date

2009

Description

Language is always changing. Languages change in regular ways, and we can use those changes to investigate the past. This book shows how different parts of language change in different ways, and how we can use that information to figure out how languages sounded thousands of years ago.

Format

588 pages ; illustrations ; 23 cm

Identifier

http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/8991800

Language

en English

Rights

De Gruyter

Source

Bass Model Research Collection

Site pages

Language history, language change, and language relationship : An introduction to historical and comparative linguistics