Department of Linguistics

Department of Linguistics

Reading List for Historical Linguistics

Linguistics Tripos Part II: Paper 11
MML Tripos Part II: Paper Li.11
Linguistics Tripos Final Examination (Old Regulations): Paper 7

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• *Aitchison, Jean. 1991. Language change: Progress or decay? CUP.
• *Campbell, Lyle. 1998. Historical linguistics: An introduction. Edinburgh UP.
• *Crowley, Terry. 1992. An introduction to historical linguistics. OUP.
• Durie, Mark, and Malcolm Ross. 1996. The Comparative Method reviewed. OUP.
• Fox, Anthony. 1995. Linguistic reconstruction: An introduction to theory and method. OUP.
• *Harris, Alice C., and Campbell, Lyle. 1995. Historical syntax in cross-linguistic perspective. CUP.
• Haspelmath, Martin. 1993. The diachronic externalization of inflection. Linguistics 31: 279-309.
• Hawkins, John A. 1979. Implicational universals as predictors of word order change. Language 55: 618-48.
• *Hickey, Raymond, 2003. Motives for Language Change. CUP.
• *Hock, Hans Heinrich, and Joseph, Brian D. 1996. Language history, language change and language relationship. Mouton de Gruyter.
• *Hopper, Paul J., and Traugott, Elizabeth Closs. 1993. Grammaticalization. CUP.
• Jeffers, Robert J., and Ilse Lehiste. 1979. Principles and methods for historical linguistics. MIT Press.
• *Joseph, Brian D., and Janda, Richard D. (eds.) 2002. Handbook of historical linguistics. Blackwell.
• Kroch, Anthony S. 1989. Reflexes of grammar in patterns of language change. Language Variation and Change 1: 199-244.
• Lass, Roger. 1990. How to do things with junk: Exaptation in language evolution. Journal of Linguistics 26: 79-102.
• Lightfoot, David. 1999. The development of language: Acquisition, change and evolution. Blackwell, esp. chapters 4-6.
• Lightfoot, David. 1991. How to Set Parameters: Arguments from Language Change. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.
• Lucas, Peter J. 1991. Some aspects of the historical development of English consonant phonemes. Transactions of the Philological Society 89: 37-64.
• *McMahon, April M. S. 1994. Understanding language change. CUP.
• McMahon, April. 2000. Lexical phonology and the history of English. CUP.
• Milroy, James. 1992. Linguistic variation and change: On the historical sociolinguistics of English. Blackwell.
• Moder, Carol Lynn. 1992. Rules and analogy. In Explanation in historical linguistics, eds. Garry W. Davis and Gregory K. Iverson. Benjamins, 179-91.
• Ohala, John J. 1981. The listener as a source of sound change. In Papers from the Parasession on Language and Behavior. Chicago Linguistics Society, May 1-2, 1981, ed. C. S. Masek, R. A. Hendrick and M. F. Miller. CLS, 178-203.
• Phillips, Betty S. 1984. Word frequency and the actuation of sound change. Language 60: 320-42.
• Romaine, Suzanne. 1982. Socio-historical linguistics. CUP, esp. chapter 6.
• Santorini, Beatrice. 1993. The rate of phrase structure change in the history of Yiddish. Language Variation and Change 5: 257-83.
• Sihler, Andrew. 2000. Language history: An introduction. Benjamins.
• *Sweetster, E. 1990. From etymology to pragmatics: Metaphorical and cultural aspects of semantic structure. CUP.
• Timberlake, Alan. 1977. Reanalysis and actualization in syntactic change. In Mechanisms of syntactic change. Ed. by Charles N. Li. University of Texas Press, 141-77.
• *Trask, R. L. 1996. Historical linguistics. Arnold.
• Trask, R. L. 2000. The dictionary of historical and comparative linguistics. Edinburgh UP.
• *Traugott, Elizabeth Closs, and Dasher, Richard B. 2001. Regularity in semantic change. CUP.
• Traugott, Elizabeth Closs, and Heine, Bernd (eds). 1991. Approaches to grammaticalization. Benjamins.

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