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- Title
Review of Winters (2020): Historical Linguistics: A Cognitive Grammar Introduction.
- Authors
De Smet, Isabeau
- Abstract
Language History, Language Change, and Language Relationship: An Introduction to Historical and Comparative Linguistics. Review of Winters, Margaret E. 2020 Historical Linguistics: A Cognitive Grammar Introduction Amsterdam John Benjamins xvii + 241 10.1075/z.227 I Historical Linguistics: A Cognitive Grammar Introduction i is the most recent introductory textbook on historical linguistics. Yet I Historical Linguistics: A Cognitive Grammar Introduction i is not flawless. As it is, of course, one of the central claims of cognitive linguistics that we process language in the same way we process everything else in the world, language change is described using one of the most central cognitive functions: (re)categorization.
- Subjects
HISTORICAL linguistics; COGNITIVE linguistics; COGNITIVE grammar; COMPARATIVE linguistics; PERSPECTIVE (Linguistics)
- Publication
Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 2022, Vol 23, Issue 1, p168
- ISSN
1566-5852
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/jhp.00047.sme