Dialects and Historical/ Comparative Linguistics" The lnterconnection of Space and Time  

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Key, Mary Ritchie

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 9 no. 2 (1987), page 207-215.
Fulltext: 09_02_Key.pdf (450.11KB)

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Change in language is a natural phenomenon that parallels change in all the environment. Dialects and other sociolinguistic aspects of language are the evidences of historical change. Traditionally, historical linguistics developed before sociolinguistics was recognized as a subject, and before dialect maps were plotted with isoglosses showing where particular varieties of language are spoken. My focus will show how the perspective of historical linguistics wiU be enlarged by looking at all the articulations of language spoken by a wide range of the population. In another sense, there are elemental features of languages in phonology and in semantics that remain stable throughout the millennia. These pristine features are enduring, and can be seen in ancient languages, such as Hittite, and present-day languages related to Hittite. These features cross dialect lines, and when looked at as a whole, are seen to reflect semantic structures of great stability in spite of language change. Elemental and innovative features are balanced from dialect to dialect and language to language in an unending variety of languages in the world

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