LSTL 54: Problems of Historical Linguistics

Problems of Historical Linguistics

Bohumil Vykypěl
Academy of Sciences, Brno

In the present volume, the author deals with various problems of historical linguistics such as the noetic value of historical-comparative linguistics, the question of linguistic relationship and evolutionary typology of language, the concept of language contact in the Prague School, the emblematic elements in morphology or the explanatory exclusivity of history.

Contents: Zur Noetik der historischen und vergleichenden Sprachwissenschaft; Zum Begriff der genetischen Sprachverwandtschaft; Das Problem der sprachlichen Elementarverwandtschaft; Josef Miloslav Kořínek und sein Beitrag zur Erforschung der sprachlichen Symbolik; Emanuel Kovář’s contribution to evolutionary typology of languages; Prager Schule und Sprachkontakt; Alltäglicher und feiertäglicher Sprachkontakt; Slavonic articles in areal context; Scheinprobleme in contact linguistics; Emblematismen in der Morphologie; (Old Church) Slavonic etymology and Indo-European studies; Indogermanen und Indogermanistik; Language influenced and influencing; Against the explanatory exclusivity of history

ISBN 9783862886166. LINCOM Studies in Theoretical Linguistics 54. 96pp. 2015.