Editor's introduction: Foundations of the new historical linguistics

Claire Bowern; Bethwyn Evans

doi:10.4324/9781315794013

Editor's introduction: Foundations of the new historical linguistics

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Historical linguistics is currently undergoing something of a renaissance.2 Though diachrony has always been important to the study of language, we see not only an increasing appreciation for the insights that language change can provide for synchronic elds such as syntax and phonology; we also see an increasingly important role for linguistic data in more general studies of the past, with linguistics taking its place alongside other core ‘(pre)historical’ disciplines such as archaeology and genetics.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics
Editors	Claire Bowern and Bethwyn Evans
Place of Publication	Abingdon, UK and New York, USA
Publisher	Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Pages	1-42
Volume	1
Edition	1st
ISBN (Print)	9780415527897
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315794013
Publication status	Published - 2015

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The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics. ed. / Claire Bowern and Bethwyn Evans. Vol. 1 1st. ed. Abingdon, UK and New York, USA: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015. p. 1-42.

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