The Handbook of Historical Linguistics

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The Handbook of Historical Linguistics is written by Brian Joseph and published by John Wiley & Sons. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0470756330 (ISBN 10) and 9780470756331 (ISBN 13).

The Handbook of Historical Linguistics provides a detailed account of the numerous issues, methods, and results that characterize current work in historical linguistics, the area of linguistics most directly concerned with language change as well as past language states. Contains an extensive introduction that places the study of historical linguistics in its proper context within linguistics and the historical sciences in general Covers the methodology of historical linguistics and presents sophisticated overviews of the principles governing phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic change Includes contributions from the leading specialists in the field