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Chapter 9. Lexical change and etymology: The study of words

  • Hans Henrich Hock and Brian D. Joseph
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Language History, Language Change, and Language Relationship
This chapter is in the book Language History, Language Change, and Language Relationship

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents xi
  3. Chapter 1. Introduction 3
  4. Chapter 2. The discovery of Indo-European 34
  5. Chapter 3. Writing: Its history and its decipherment 63
  6. Chapter 4. Sound change 113
  7. Chapter 5. Analogy and change in word structure 150
  8. Chapter 6. Syntactic change 183
  9. Chapter 7. Semantic change 205
  10. Chapter 8. Lexical borrowing 241
  11. Chapter 9. Lexical change and etymology: The study of words 279
  12. Chapter 10. Language, dialect, and standard 307
  13. Chapter 11. Dialect geography and dialectology 332
  14. Chapter 12. Language spread, link languages, and bilingualism 349
  15. Chapter 13. Convergence: Dialectology beyond languageboundaries 370
  16. Chapter 14. Pidgins, creoles, and related forms of language 392
  17. Chapter 15. Language death 419
  18. Chapter 16. Comparative method: Establishing language relationship 427
  19. Chapter 17. Proto-World?: The question of long-distance genetic relationships 455
  20. Chapter 18. Historical linguistics, history, and prehistory: Linguistic paleontology and other applications of our methods 477
  21. Chapter notes and suggested readings 510
  22. Backmatter 533
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110214307.279

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents xi
  3. Chapter 1. Introduction 3
  4. Chapter 2. The discovery of Indo-European 34
  5. Chapter 3. Writing: Its history and its decipherment 63
  6. Chapter 4. Sound change 113
  7. Chapter 5. Analogy and change in word structure 150
  8. Chapter 6. Syntactic change 183
  9. Chapter 7. Semantic change 205
  10. Chapter 8. Lexical borrowing 241
  11. Chapter 9. Lexical change and etymology: The study of words 279
  12. Chapter 10. Language, dialect, and standard 307
  13. Chapter 11. Dialect geography and dialectology 332
  14. Chapter 12. Language spread, link languages, and bilingualism 349
  15. Chapter 13. Convergence: Dialectology beyond languageboundaries 370
  16. Chapter 14. Pidgins, creoles, and related forms of language 392
  17. Chapter 15. Language death 419
  18. Chapter 16. Comparative method: Establishing language relationship 427
  19. Chapter 17. Proto-World?: The question of long-distance genetic relationships 455
  20. Chapter 18. Historical linguistics, history, and prehistory: Linguistic paleontology and other applications of our methods 477
  21. Chapter notes and suggested readings 510
  22. Backmatter 533
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