Autor: Hans Henrich Hock

Why does language change? Why can we speak to and understand our parents but have trouble reading Shakespeare? Why is Chaucer’s English of the fourteenth century so different from Modern English of t …

Historical linguistic theory and practice contains a great number of different ‚layers‘ which have been accepted in the course of time and have acquired a permanency of their own. These range from ne …

With nearly a quarter of the world’s population, members of at least five major language families plus several putative language isolates, South Asia is a fascinating arena for linguistic investigati …

With nearly a quarter of the world’s population, members of at least five major language families plus several putative language isolates, South Asia is a fascinating arena for linguistic investigati …

Why does language change? Why can we speak to and understand our parents but have trouble reading Shakespeare? Why is Chaucer’s English of the fourteenth century so different from Modern English of t …

Historical linguistic theory and practice contains a great number of different ‚layers‘ which have been accepted in the course of time and have acquired a permanency of their own. These range from ne …

Historical linguistic theory and practice consist of a large number of chronological ‚layers‘ that have been accepted in the course of time and have acquired a permanence of their own. These range fr …

This volume presents twelve in-depth case studies that critically examine the ways in which historical linguistics and language change interact with ideology. These varying interactions have been pre …

Historical linguistic theory and practice consist of a large number of chronological "layers" that have been accepted in the course of time and have acquired a permanence of their own. Thes …