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• Title:Historical linguistics : a cognitive grammar introduction / Margaret E. Winters.
  
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• Author/Creator:Winters, Margaret E., author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:John Benjamins Publishing Company 2020 Complete Collection.
  
• Published/Created:Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020]
  

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  • Call Number: P140
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Historical linguistics--Textbooks.
  Cognitive grammar--Textbooks.
  
• Subject(s):Electronic books.
  
• Description:1 online resource ( xvi, 241 pages) : illustrations.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 26, 2020).
  
• ISBN:9789027261236 electronic book
  9027261237 electronic book
  9789027205506 hardcover
  9789027205513 paperback
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 What is language change?
  1. Introduction
  2. Characteristics of language
  2.1. human element
  2.2. Arbitrariness
  2.3. Creativity
  2.4. Physicality
  3. Change
  3.1. Life cycles
  3.2. What changes?
  4. Evidence of change
  5. Cognitive Grammar as a framework
  6. Book overview
  7. Conclusion
  Exercises
  For further investigation
  ch. 2 Studying change
  1. Overview
  2. Uniformitarianism
  3. Coincidence and universals
  3.1. Pure coincidence
  3.2. Universals
  3.2.1. Absolute universals
  3.2.2. Relative universals
  4. Genetic relationships and families
  4.1. Genealogical (Tree) model
  4.2. wave model
  4.3. Contemporary approaches
  5. Contact among languages
  5.1. Kinds of contact
  5.2. Stratal influence
  5.3. Areal influence
  5.4. Pidgins and Creoles
  6. Conclusion
  Exercises
  For further investigation
  ch. 3 Lexical change
  1. Overview
  2. Etymology
  2.1. Basic vocabulary
  2.2. Coinage
  2.3. Lexical loss
  3. nature of meaning
  4. More general trends
  4.1. Generalization (widening)
  4.2. Narrowing
  4.3. Meliorization
  4.4. Pejoration
  4.5. Shift
  4.6. Metaphor
  4.7. Metonymy
  5. Wider tendencies and causation
  5.1. Root, epistemic, and speech act meaning
  6. Conclusion
  Exercises
  For further investigation
  ch. 4 Phonetic change
  1. Introduction
  1.1. scope of phonetics
  2. note on conventions and features
  3. Unconditioned change
  3.1. Simple changes
  3.2. Complex changes: Chain shifts
  3.3. Conclusion
  4. Conditioned change
  4.1. Positional conditioning
  4.2. Conditioning by surrounding elements
  4.2.1. Segmental influence
  4.2.2. Suprasegmental influence
  5. wider context
  5.1. Imitation and borrowing
  5.2. Fortitions and lenitions
  6. Consciousness of change
  7. Conclusion
  Exercises
  For further investigation
  ch. 5 Phonological change
  1. Introduction
  1.1. Phonetics and phonology
  1.2. phoneme
  1.3. Formalism
  1.4. Summary
  2. Processes of phonemic change
  2.1. Merger
  2.2. Split
  2.2.1. Allophonic split
  2.2.2. creation of phonemes: Phonologization
  3. Phonological change as recategorization
  3.1. Individual changes
  3.2. Phonemic inventories
  3.2.1. Patterns
  3.2.2. Features
  4. Actuation and expansion of use
  4.1. Actuation
  4.2. Expansion of use
  5. Conclusion
  Exercises
  For further investigation
  ch. 6 Morphological change
  1. Introduction
  1.1. Morphology and the morpheme
  2. Word-level morphology
  2.1. Coinage through affixes
  2.2. Reanalysis across boundaries
  3. Free and bound morphemes
  3.1. Grammaticalization
  3.2. New free morphemes from bound
  4. Analogical change
  4.1. Examples
  4.1.1. English plurals
  4.1.2. English verbs
  4.2. Kurytowicz's paper on analogy
  5. Paradigmatic and other systematic change
  5.1. Series and semantically related words
  5.2. Paradigmatic changes
  5.3. return to Sturtevant's paradox
  6. Concluding comments
  Exercises
  For further investigation
  ch. 7 Syntactic change
  1. Introduction
  1.1. nature of syntax
  1.2. Diachronic syntax
  1.2.1. Structural approaches and feasibility
  1.2.2. Reconstruction
  1.2.3. What to do?
  1.2.4. Rate of change
  2. Word order
  2.1. Simple word order change
  2.2. Universals and universal tendencies
  2.3. Iconicity
  2.4. analytic-synthetic cycle
  3. Reanalysis and grammaticalization
  3.1. Latin and Romance passive
  3.2. Complementation and subordinate clauses
  4. Conclusions
  Exercises
  For further investigation
  ch. 8 Actuation and spread
  1. Introduction
  2. Actuation
  3. Spread
  3.1. Kinds of spread
  3.2. role of variation
  3.2.1. Weinreich, Labov, and Herzog (1968)
  3.2.2. Social marking
  3.2.3. Martha's Vineyard
  3.2.4. Other determiners
  4. Lexical diffusion
  5. role of frequency and cognitive salience
  6. When can we say that change has emerged from spread?
  7. Conclusion
  Exercises
  For further investigation
  ch. 9 Methodology
  1. Introduction: Theory and method
  2. Text-based data
  2.1. Philology
  2.1.1. Definitions
  2.1.2. Challenges
  2.2. Corpus data and mining
  3. Reconstruction
  3.1. Underlying assumptions
  3.1.1. Relationships among languages
  3.1.2. ultimate single form
  3.1.3. regularity hypothesis
  3.1.4. Occam's Razor
  3.1.5. Hypothesis construction
  3.2. Comparative reconstruction
  3.2.1. Language family data
  3.2.2. Correspondence sets
  3.2.3. Testing the reconstruction
  3.2.4. Limitations
  3.3. Phylogenesis
  3.4. Internal reconstruction
  3.4.1. Some examples
  3.4.2. Limitations
  3.5. Syntactic reconstruction
  3.6. Combining methods
  3.7. Shortcomings and challenges in reconstruction
  4. Philology and reconstruction compared and combined
  5. Conclusion
  Exercises
  For further investigation
  ch. 10 Causation, prediction, and final remarks
  1. Introduction
  1.1. Generalizations about change and cognition
  2. potential for prediction
  2.1. Aspects of change favoring prediction
  2.1.1. Drift and typological co-occurrence
  2.1.2. Typology, grammaticalization, and cyclical change
  2.2. Processes which do not allow prediction
  2.2.1. Emergence
  2.2.2. Competition
  2.3. Factors of change for further exploration
  2.3.1. Genetic affiliation
  2.3.2. Contact
  2.3.3. role of frequency
  2.4. Summary
  3. Fundamental causation
  3.1. Biological causation
  3.2. Social causation
  3.3. Cognitive causation
  3.3.1. Phonological patterns
  3.3.2. Grammatical patterns
  3.3.3. Humboldt's universal
  3.3.4. Summary: Cognitive functioning
  4. Language as a system
  Exercises
  For further investigation.