Bibliografía indispensable

There is no textbook; required and recommended reading will be announced at the beginning of each unit and hand-outs with the necessary material to follow the class will be distributed in class. Reading material and exercises will be available from the Photocopy Service and/or from the course site in faitic.

Bibliografía

Aitchinson, J. 2001. Language Change: Progress or Decay? 3rd edn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Anderson, J.M. 1973. Structural Aspects of Language Change. London: Longman.

Bauer, L. 1994. Watching English Change. London and New York: Longman.

Beard, A. 2004.Language change. New York: Routledge.

Bynon, T. 1977. Historical Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Campbell, L. 2004 Historical Linguistics. An Introduction. 2nd ed. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Croft, W. 2000. Explaining Language Change: An Evolutionary Approach. London: Longman.

Crowley, T. 1997. An Introduction to Historical Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Harris, A.C. & L. Campbell 1995. Historical Syntax in Cross-linguistic Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Hock, H.H. 1991. Principles of Historical Linguistics. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

Hock, H.H. & B.D. Joseph 1996. Language History, Language Change and Language Relationship. An Introduction to Historical and Comparative Linguistics. (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 93). Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

Jeffers, R.J. & I. Lehiste 1979. Principles and Methods for Historical Linguistics. Cambridge (Mass.): The MIT Press.

Jucker, A.H. 2000. History of English and English Historical Linguistics. Stuttgart: Klett.

Labov, W. 1994. Principles of Linguistic Change: Internal Factors. Oxford: Blackwell.

Labov, W. 2001. Principles of Linguistic Change: Social Factors. Oxford: Blackwell

Lass, R. 1980. On Explaining Language Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Lass, R. 1997. Historical Linguistics and Language Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Lehmann, W.P. 1992. Historical Linguistics. An Introduction. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.

Lightfoot, D.W. 1999. The Development of Language. Acquisition, Change and Evolution.Oxford: Blackwell.

Mcmahon, A., 1994. Understanding Language Change. Cambridge: C.U.P.

Samuels, M.L. 1972. Linguistic Evolution with Special Reference to English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Schendl, H. 2001. Historical Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Sihler, A.L. 2000. Language History. An Introduction. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Singh, I. & M. Jones 2005. Exploring Language Change. London: Routledge.

Trask, R.L. 1994. Language Change. London & New York: Routledge.

Trask, R.L. 1996. Historical Linguistics. London: Arnold.

Resources on the web

Students are encouraged to visit the HEL (History of English) Website (http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/hel/hel.html, also www.historyofenglish.net) The teacher will provide students with an updated list of web resources, including online early English grammars, exercises for self-study, data banks, dictionary and corpora sites, font pages, search tools, etc.

All the material (in-class and external sources) will be uploaded to the university e-learning platform.