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Historical Linguistics
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This book is an introduction to the study of languages from a diachronic perspective, discussing the mechanics and theory of language change.
Table of Contents
/Introduction/
/Sound Change/
/Internal Reconstruction/
/Comparative Reconstruction/
/Language Contact and Borrowing/
/Subgrouping and Linguistic Classification/
/Analogical Change/
/Semantic Change/
/Syntactic Change/
/Written Records/
Linguistics
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