{"product_id":"principles-of-linguistic-change-internal-factors-v-1-9780631179146","title":"Principles of Linguistic Change  Internal Factors","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book develops the general principles of linguistic change that form the foundations of historical linguistics, dialectology and sociolinguistics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This volume represents the remarkable achievements of one of the leading linguistics of the twentieth century. Almost uniquely... Labov has demonstrated the social as well as cognitive relevance of linguistic research.\" \u003ci\u003eElizabeth C. Traugott and Scott A. Schwenter, Stanford University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEditor's Preface. \u003cp\u003eNotational Conventions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The Plan of the Work as a Whole.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Introduction and Methodology:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. The Use of the Present to Explain the Past.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. An Overview of the Issues.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. The Study of Change in Progress: Observations in Apparent Time.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. The Study of Change in Progress: Observations in Real Time.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Chain Shifting:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. General Principles of Vowel Shifting.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Chain Shifts in Progress.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Resolution of the Paradoxes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Reduction of the Rules and Principles.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Chain Shifts across Subsystems.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Mergers and Splits:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Some Impossible Unmergings.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. The General Properties of Mergers and Splits.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Near-Mergers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. The Explanation of Unmergings.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. The Suspension of Phonemic Contrast.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: The Regularity Controversy:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. Evidence for Lexical Diffusion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. Expanding the Neogrammarian Viewpoint.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17. Regular Sound Change in English Dialect Geography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18. A Proposed Resolution of the Regularity Question.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V: The Functional Character of Change:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19. The Overestimation of Functionalism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20. The Maintenance of Meaning.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21. The Principles Reviewed.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403393605975,"sku":"9780631179146","price":37.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780631179146.jpg?v=1730483332","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/principles-of-linguistic-change-internal-factors-v-1-9780631179146","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}