Directions for Historical Linguistics ─ Reprint of the 1968 Original

A reprint of one of the classics of historical linguistics (which has been out of print), this book consists of five papers originally presented at a 1966 symposium at the U. of Texas at Austin. Scholars from the US and France address Ferdinand de Saussure’s influence on descriptive and historical analysis in historical linguistics; the connection between inflectional paradigms as an occasional determinant of sound change; the nature of the phoneme and morpheme to arrive at an intermediate entity, the morpho(pho)neme; a framework for examining the modification of morpho-syntactic categories and the rise of new patterns to express them; and language change in contemporary linguistics communities. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Winfred P. Lehmann, Ph.D. (1941), The University of Wisconsin-Madison, was Louann and Larry Temple Centennial Professor in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin. He is widely recognized for his work in historical linguistics, Indo-European and Germanic linguistics, language pedagogy, and typology. Before passing away in 2007, aged 91, he authored over 50 books and about 250 scholarly articles, many of them highly influential. Yakov Malkiel, Ph.D. (1938), Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat (now Humboldt-Universitat), Berlin, was Professor of Spanish and Linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley. He published in a number of areas of Romance and general linguistics, including word formation, phonology, sound change, and the history of linguistics, particularly on Spanish. He was the founder of the journal Romance Philology, which he edited for thirty-five years. Malkiel passed away in 1998, aged 83.Hans C. Boas, Ph.D. (2000), The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is Professor of Germanic Studies and Linguistics at The University of Texas at Austin and the Director of the Linguistics Research Center. His publications include A Constructional Approach to Resultatives (CSLI Publications, 2003) and The Life and Death of Texas German (Duke University Press, 2009). Marc Pierce, Ph.D. (2002), The University of Michigan, is Associate Professor of Germanic Studies and an Affiliated Faculty Member in French and Italian at the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include historical linguistics, the history of linguistics, and language contact.Contributors are: Emile Benveniste, Hans C. Boas, Marvin Herzog, J. Kurylowicz , William Labov, Winfred P. Lehmann, Yakov Malkiel, Marc Pierce, Uriel Weinreich.