The Routledge handbook of historical linguistics /
- London : Routledge, 2019.
- xviii, 757 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
"This volume provides a state-of-the-art survey of this well-established field of historical linguistics. Thanks to recent technological advances and the rise in availability of large-scale datasets, the importance of diachrony as a key to understanding human language has been reinforced. This handbook unites an international group of scholars with expertise in a range of fields relating to the study of language change."