Notes (Gibbon)

The Regularity of Sound Change

Phonological Change

• Phonological Rules
• The Great Vowel Shift

Morphological Change

Syntactic Change

Lexical Change

• New Words
• Borrowings
• Loss of Words
• Semantic Change

Reconstructing ``Dead'' Languages

• The Comparative Method
• Historical Evidence

The Genetic Classification of Languages

Why Do Languages Change?

Languages of the World

Terminology

analogic change/internal borrowing:

cognates:

comparative method:

etymology:

genetically related:

Great vowel Shift:

historical and comparative linguistics:

loan word:

regular sound correspondence:

Online Links

To find out more about different languages, visit the ``Sprachmuseum'' and the Human Language Page.