Language classification : history and method / Lyle Campbell and William J. Poser.
"How are relationships established between the world's languages? This is one of the most topical and most controversial questions in contemporary linguistics. The central aims of the book are to answer this question, to cut through the controversies, and to contribute to research in dista...
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2008.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: how are languages shown to be related to one another?
- 2. The beginning of comparative linguistics
- 3. “Asiatic Jones, Oriental Jones”: Sir William Jones' role in the raise of comparative linguistics
- 4. Consolidation of comparative linguistics
- 5. How some languages were shown to belong to Indo-European
- 6. Comparative linguistics of other language families and regions
- 7. How to show languages are related: the methods
- 8. The philosophical - psychological - typological - evolutionary approach to language relationships
- 9. Assessment of proposed distant genetic relationships
- 10. Beyond the comparative method?
- 11. Why and how do languages diversify and spread?
- 12. What can we learn about the earliest human language by comparing languages known today?
- 13. Conclusions: anticipating the future
- Appendix: Hypothesized distant genetic relationships.