An introduction to historical linguistics - Crowley, Terry; Bowern, Claire 1977-. (Oxford New York Oxford University Press, 2010)
Types of sound change -- Expressing sound changes -- Phonetic and phonemic change -- The comparative method (1): procedures -- Determining relatedness -- Internal reconstruction -- Computational and statistical methods -- The comparative method (2): history and challenges -- Morphological change -- Semantic and lexical change -- Syntactic change -- Observing language change -- Language contact -- Cultural reconstruction.
JRT Cabazares (Recommending faculty) AY 2022-2023
Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-367) and index.
Keywords: Historical linguistics