Yale linguists contribute to The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics
Associate professor Claire Bowern and Bethwyn Evans (ANU) have co-edited The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics, now available for purchase. The volume provides a survey of the field covering the methods which underpin current work, models of language change, and the importance of historical linguistics for other subfields of linguistics and other disciplines.
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Divided into five sections, the volume’s 35 chapters encompass a wide range of approaches and address issues in the following areas:
- historical perspectives
- methods and models
- language change
- interfaces
- regional summaries
The introduction is co-written by Claire, and two other Yale linguists have contributed chapters. Professor Steve Anderson’s chapter is titled “Morphological change,” and associate professor Ashwini Deo’s is called “Formal semantics/pragmatics and language change.”