Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Key to symbols used
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part One Models of language development
- Part Two Language contact
- 4 The neogrammarian postulates and dialect geography
- 5 The social motivation of language change
- 6 Contact between languages
- 7 Language and prehistory
- Further reading
- References
- Additional bibliography
- Index
4 - The neogrammarian postulates and dialect geography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Key to symbols used
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part One Models of language development
- Part Two Language contact
- 4 The neogrammarian postulates and dialect geography
- 5 The social motivation of language change
- 6 Contact between languages
- 7 Language and prehistory
- Further reading
- References
- Additional bibliography
- Index
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- Historical Linguistics , pp. 173 - 197Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1977