The Handbook of Historical Linguistics, Volume II - (Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics) by Richard D Janda & Brian D Joseph & Barbara S Vance
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br> "We propose to edit a second volume of the highly successful 2003 Handbook of Historical Linguistics (HoHL1), keeping key chapters (with some updating) from that book that give an overview of essential subareas within historical linguistics, redoing a few chapters which are important but were less than successful in the 2003 tome, reprinting a chapter from a different Blackwell Handbook, and adding many new topics that complement and supplement HoHL1. We do not duplicate the latter's long introduction (it may be turned into a separate monograph) but instead give a more standard, brief introduction laying out the rationale for a 2nd volume. By way of situating this second volume in a broader context of handbooks, and of clarifying its relation to the 2003 volume, let us say that we feel strongly that just updating each chapter would not yield the best possible book, largely because the essential issues in historical linguistics that are so well covered in HoHL1 have not changed all that much in the decade since its publication. Further, in HoHL1,we deliberately included several chapters on the same topic (e.g., for sound-change: Mark Hale on the Neogrammarian approach, Gregory Guy on the variationist approach, and Paul Kiparsky on the phonologically based approach), since we felt it was important to give a sense of the points on which there is legitimate debate and controversy. However, with those controversies aired there, there is no need for re-including all of the scholarly back-and-forth and varying viewpoints. Readers interested in seeing scholars go back and forth on certain topics can still get that from HoHl1. This is the basis for our decision to keep only chapters dealing directly with core matters in the discipline (= sound change, analogy, semantic change, etc.) and to ask the respective authors for updates (especially as regards bibliography) for those and only those"<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>An entirely new follow-up volume providing a detailed account of numerous additional issues, methods, and results that characterize current work in historical linguistics.</b> </p> <p>This brand-new, second volume of <i>The Handbook of Historical Linguistics </i>is a complement to the well-established first volume first published in 2003. It includes extended content allowing uniquely comprehensive coverage of the study of language(s) over time. Though it adds fresh perspectives on several topics previously treated in the first volume, this <i>Handbook</i> focuses on extensions of diachronic linguistics beyond those key issues.</p> <p>This <i>Handbook</i> provides readers with studies of language change whose perspectives range from comparisons of large open vs. small closed corpora, via creolistics and linguistic contact in general, to obsolescence and endangerment of languages. Written by leading scholars in their respective fields, new chapters are offered on matters such as the origin of language, evidence from language for reconstructing human prehistory, invocations of language present in studies of language past, benefits of linguistic fieldwork for historical investigation, ways in which not only biological evolution but also field biology can serve as heuristics for research into the rise and spread of linguistic innovations, and more. Moreover, it: </p> <ul> <li>offers novel and broadened content complementing the earlier volume so as to provide the fullest available overview of a wholly engrossing field</li> <li>includes 23 all-new contributed chapters, treating some familiar themes from fresh perspectives but mostly covering entirely new topics</li> <li>features expanded discussion of material from language families other than Indo-European</li> <li>provides a multiplicity of views from numerous specialists in linguistic diachrony.</li> </ul> <p><i>The Handbook of Historical Linguistics, </i><i>Volume II </i>is an ideal book for undergraduate and graduate students in linguistics, researchers and professional linguists, as well as all those interested in the history of particular languages and the history of language more generally. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>"The first edition of <i>the Handbook of Historical Linguistics</i> is the best-worn handbook among many in my office and even though it's almost 20 years old, I still consult it often. Still, historical linguistics is a very different field today than it was in 2003 and this new edition fully reflects and engages with the state of the art. It's a completely new volume, a worthy successor, and I look forward to wearing out this second edition." <b>Joseph Salmons, </b> University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA <p>"This is an important resource for right now and far into the future. In its breadth and depth it has everything we could ask for and more, a comprehensive survey in 24 chapters written by the world's foremost scholars. It unites time-honored fundamentals of historical linguistics and progressive lines of ongoing research."<br> <b>Lyle Campbell, </b> University of Hawai'i at M noa, USA <p>This brand-new, second volume of <i>The Handbook of Historical Linguistics</i> is a complement to the well-established first volume, initially published in 2003. It includes extended content allowing uniquely comprehensive coverage of the study of language(s) over time. Though it adds fresh perspectives on several topics previously treated in the first volume, this <i>Handbook</i> focuses on extensions of diachronic linguistics beyond those key issues. <p>This <i>Handbook</i> provides readers with studies of language change whose perspectives range from comparisons of large open vs. small closed corpora, via creolistics and linguistic contact in general, to obsolescence and endangerment of languages. Written by leading scholars in their respective fields, the chapters of this <i>Handbook</i> cover new topics such as the origin of language, the evidence from language for reconstructing human prehistory, the relevance of the study of present-day language for studying language in the past, and the benefits of linguistic fieldwork for historical investigation. Unique to this volume is a chapter that discusses in detail a large number of highly specific predictions as to the future of a widely spoken language-variety, thereby focusing long-term attention on thirty changes in the lexicon, phonology, morphology, and morphosyntax of North American English. <p><i>The Handbook of Historical Linguistics, Volume II, </i> is an ideal book for undergraduate and graduate students in linguistics, researchers, and professional linguists, as well as all those interested in the history of particular languages and the history of language more generally.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Richard D. Janda</b> is currently Visiting Scholar in French and Italian at Indiana University Bloomington, USA, but his teaching spans eleven universities in nine US states. He is author or editor of over 75 publications, including <i>The Handbook of Historical Linguistics</i> (Wiley Blackwell, 2003). <p><b>Brian D. Joseph</b> is Distinguished University Professor of Linguistics and The Kenneth E. Naylor Professor of South Slavic Linguistics at The Ohio State University, USA. He has written and edited numerous books and published some 300 articles. He served as editor of the journal <i>Language</i> from 2002 - 2009, and is currently co-editor of the <i>Journal of Greek Linguistics</i>. <p><b>Barbara S. Vance</b> is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Associate Professor of French Linguistics at Indiana University Bloomington, USA. She is the author of <i>Syntactic Change in Medieval French</i> (1997) and is a specialist in the historical syntax of French and Occitan.
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