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Hans Henrich Hock
Researcher at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Publications - 42
Citations - 1338
Hans Henrich Hock is an academic researcher from University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. The author has contributed to research in topics: Verb & Sanskrit. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 41 publications receiving 1271 citations.
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Principles of historical linguistics
TL;DR: The major purpose of the book is to provide in up-to-date form such an understanding of the principles of historical linguistics and the related fields of comparative linguisticistics and linguistic reconstruction.
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Language History, Language Change, and Language Relationship: An Introduction to Historical and Comparative Linguistics
TL;DR: The authors provides answers to questions like these in a straightforward way, aimed at the non-specialist, with ample illustrations from both familiar and more exotic languages, and most chapters in this new edition have been reworked, with some difficult passages removed, other passages thoroughly rewritten, and several new sections added, e.g. on language and race and on Indian writing systems.
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Perspectives on historical linguistics
TL;DR: In this paper, a semiotic model of diachronic process phonology is presented, and a semantic-marked root morphemes are used to represent the semantic-pragmatic aspects of grammaticalization.
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Compensatory lengthening: In defense of the concept ‘mora’
TL;DR: This article argued that compensatory lengthening always involves the loss of a consonant immediately adjacent to the vowel in which length subsequently appears, and that the change can be analysed quite generally into the two independently-motivated processes of weakening of the consonant to a glide and subsequent monophthongization of a complex syllable nucleus.