TY - BOOK AU - Claire Bowern AU - Bethwyn Evans TI - The Routledge handbook of historical linguistics SN - 9780367250294 U1 - GR.417 R76 PY - 2019/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - Handbooks and manuals N2 - "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." ER -