scholarly journals : Indo-Pacific Linguistic Studies. Part I: Historical Linguistics; Part II: Descriptive Linguistics . G. B. Milner, Eugenie J. A. Henderson.

1967 ◽  
Vol 69 (5) ◽  
pp. 548-549
Author(s):  
Ward H. Goodenough
Keyword(s):  
Historical Linguistics ◽  
Descriptive Linguistics

scholarly journals LINGUISTIK MODERN PERSEPEKTIF DOKTOR MAHMUD FAHMI AL-HIJAZI

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (01) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Humaidi Humaidi
Keyword(s):  
Historical Linguistics ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
Descriptive Linguistics ◽  
Comparative Linguistics ◽  
Contrastive Linguistics

Abstract Linguistics is the study of language scientifically. In his study, linguistics has the scope of studies and methods of study. The scope of linguistic studies is phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Phonology research is the study of language sounds. Morphology is the field of linguistics that studies about word formation and morphemes in a language. Syntax is the study of the structure of language. And the last semantics is the study of meaning. While the methodology of linguistic studies are comparative linguistics, descriptive linguistics, historical linguistics, and contrastive linguistics.

scholarly journals Historical Linguistics, Linguistics, and Applied Linguistics: A study inspired by trees

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Del Carmen Arau Ribeiro
Keyword(s):  
Historical Linguistics ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Generative Grammar ◽  
Tree Structure ◽  
Founding Father ◽  
Descriptive Linguistics ◽  
Language Study

Abstract:This innovative perspective on historical linguistics, linguistics, and applied linguistics examines these areas of study with the role of trees in mind. It covers the quest for the founding father of historical linguistics - from the German Schleicher through the Scots, Stewart and Hutton, to the Americans, Whitney and Peirce, and the Swiss, Saussure. A brief but sweeping review of early linguistics and language study before the advent of cognitivism reveals American structuralism and immediate constituent analysis in descriptive linguistics relying on the tree structure even prior to the time transformative generative grammar was institutionalized.Keywords: Historical Linguistics, Linguistics, Language Teaching, Trees.Título en español: La lingüística histórica, la lingüística, y la lingüística aplicada: Un estudio motivado por los árboles.Resumen:Esta perspectiva original sobre la linguística histórica, la linguística, y la linguística aplicada examina estas áreas de estudio desde un punto de vista arbóreo. Cubre la búsqueda de un padre fundador de la lingüística histórica - desde el alemán, Schleicher, y los escoceses, Stewart y Hutton, a los norte-americanos, Whitney y Pierce y el suizo, Saussure. Una breve pero vasta revista de la primitiva lingüística y el estudio de lenguas antes de la aparición del cognitivismo revela que el estructuralismo americano y el análisis de los constituyentes inmediatos en la lingüística descriptiva dependen de la estructura arbórea incluso antes que la gramática generativa transformativa fue institucionalizada.Palabras Claves: Lingüística Histórico, Lingüística, Enseñanza de Lenguas, Árboles

Campbell's (2013) Historical Linguistics: A Critical Review

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (10) ◽  
pp. 24
Author(s):  
Zaidan Ali Jassem
Keyword(s):  
Critical Review ◽  
Historical Linguistics

The purpose of this paper is to provide a radical critical review of Lyle Campbell’s (2013) Historical linguistics: An introduction, (3nd edn.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. More precisely, it gives an overview,  survey, and critique of the main topics, principles, and theories which the work covers. My review is based on using it as the main textbook for ENGL 358 Historical Linguistics  for over 5 years where the students say ‘it’s frightening’.  

Qualities of a good essay: an assessment of the writings of Nigerian undergraduates

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (7) ◽  
pp. 82-88
Author(s):  
Usoro Mark Okono
Keyword(s):  
Critical Case ◽  
State University ◽  
Descriptive Linguistics ◽  
Purposive Sampling ◽  
Writing Test ◽  
Units Of Analysis ◽  
Regular Practice

This research sought to discover the capabilities of Nigerian undergraduates in handling the salient characteristics of essay in English. Such qualities as clarity, economy, simplicity, unity and coherence were the variables in the assessment. The study was conducted within the framework of the theory of descriptive linguistics and its sub-discipline of stylistics. Four topics representing argumentative, descriptive, expository and narrative essays were given to students for each of them to voluntarily choose one and write on in a strictly supervised writing test. All the essays were marked on the above stated variables. Critical case sampling strand of the purposive sampling was used to select four outstanding essays each representing one of the four departments of the Akwa Ibom State University of Nigeria. Paragraph and sentence formed some of the units of analysis. It was found out that the four subjects whose essays were analyzed proved their mettle in producing readable and creative prose in the four genres with some room for improvement. It is suggested that the Use of English programme in Nigerian universities should be extended from one to two years in addition to regular practice in writing by students and feedback from lecturers.

Scales and Units

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn M. de Luna
Keyword(s):  
Language Change ◽  
Historical Linguistics ◽  
Bantu Languages ◽  
The North ◽  
First Case ◽  
Linguistic Evidence ◽  
River Region ◽  
History Of ◽  
Alternative Approaches

This chapter uses two case studies to explore how historians study language movement and change through comparative historical linguistics. The first case study stands as a short chapter in the larger history of the expansion of Bantu languages across eastern, central, and southern Africa. It focuses on the expansion of proto-Kafue, ca. 950–1250, from a linguistic homeland in the middle Kafue River region to lands beyond the Lukanga swamps to the north and the Zambezi River to the south. This expansion was made possible by a dramatic reconfiguration of ties of kinship. The second case study explores linguistic evidence for ridicule along the Lozi-Botatwe frontier in the mid- to late 19th century. Significantly, the units and scales of language movement and change in precolonial periods rendered visible through comparative historical linguistics bring to our attention alternative approaches to language change and movement in contemporary Africa.

Language Change and Movement as Seen by Historical Linguistics

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek Nurse
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Language Change ◽  
Historical Linguistics ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Change Over Time ◽  
Comparative Linguistics ◽  
Language Boundaries ◽  
Over Time

The focus of this chapter is on how languages move and change over time and space. The perceptions of historical linguists have been shaped by what they were observing. During the flowering of comparative linguistics, from the late 19th into the 20th century, the dominant view was that in earlier times when people moved, their languages moved with them, often over long distances, sometimes fast, and that language change was largely internal. That changed in the second half of the 20th century. We now recognize that in recent centuries and millennia, most movements of communities and individuals have been local and shorter. Constant contact between communities resulted in features flowing across language boundaries, especially in crowded and long-settled locations such as most of Central and West Africa. Although communities did mix and people did cross borders, it became clear that language and linguistic features could also move without communities moving.

IE5.com. Historical Linguistics pro populo

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 621-632
Author(s):  
Todd B. Krause
Keyword(s):  
Historical Linguistics
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