历史语言学文章选读（陈忠敏）

印欧语(Indo-European language family)有非常丰富的古代文献资料，而且时间相当古
老，比较重要的语族(Indo-Iranian, Greek, Anatolian, Italic)都有公元前的拼音文
献。公元前四世纪Panini对古典梵文精妙绝伦的描写更是十九世纪比较语言学家研究印欧
语历史的基石。这些优势是任何其他语系所不能比拟的。所以有人认为历史语言学的基本
理论和方法诞生于十九世纪的印欧语研究也绝非偶然。二十世纪三、四十年代以后，历史
语言学的研究中心从欧洲转移到北美，人们的语言研究视野也大为扩大，从有悠久文献记
录的印欧语，扩展到无文字记录的语言。人们对源自于印欧语研究的基本理论和方法也随
之进行了修正和补充。笔者受友人的建议和怂恿列出一些文章，希望能从中看出历史语言
学理论和方法的演变，也希望能对汉语史研究有所启迪。笔者能力有限，选出的文章也难
免有自己的倾向性，不当之处请方家指正。
忠敏谨记

Historical Linguistics Reading-List  for Advance Study           
Selected By Zhongmin Chen 陈忠敏

Aitchison, Jean. 2003. Psycholinguistics perspectives on language change. The
Handbook of Historical Linguistics 736-743. Brian D. Joseph and Richard D.
Janda (eds.) Blackwell.

Andersen, Henning. 1973. Abductive and deductive change. Language 49. 765-793

Benveniste, Emile. 1971. Semantic problems in reconstruction. Problem in
General Linguistics, translated by Mary Elizabeth Meek, 249-264. Coral Gables:
University of Miami Press.

Bybee, Joan, Revere Perkins, and William Pagliuca. 1994. The evolution of
grammar: tense, aspect, and modality in the languages of the world, 1-26.
Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.

Campbell, Lyle. 2003. How to show languages are related: Methods for distant
genetic relationship.  The Handbook of Historical Linguistics 262-282. Brian
D. Joseph and Richard D. Janda (eds.) Blackwell.

Chen, Matthew, and William S-Y. Wang. 1975. Sound Change. Actuation and
implementation  Language 51. 255-281

Greenberg, Joseph 1980. Circumfixes and typological change. Traugott et aliae
(eds.). Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Historical
Linguistics, 233-241. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Guy, R. Gregory. 2003. Variationist approaches to phonological change. The
Handbook of Historical Linguistics 369-400. Brian D. Joseph and Richard D.
Janda (eds.) Blackwell.

Mary R. Hass. 1966. Historical linguistics and the genetic relationship of
languages.
Current Trends in Linguistics. Vol. 3. ed Thomas Sebeok, 113-153. The Hague
Mouton.

Heine, Bernd, and Mechthild Reh. 1984. Syntactic reanalysis.
Grammaticalization and Reanalysis in African Languages, 95-111. Hamburg:
Helmut Buske Verlag

Janda, Richard and Brian D. Joseph 2003. On language, change, and language
change-or, of history, linguistics, and historical linguistics.  The Handbook
of Historical Linguistics 3-180. Brian D. Joseph and Richard D. Janda (eds.)
Blackwell.

John R. Payne. 1979. Transitivity and Intransitivity in the Iranian Languages
of U.S.S.R. The Elements: A Parasession on Linguistic Units and Levels, eds.
Paul Clyne, Wm. Hanks, and Carol Hofbauer, 436-447. Chicago: Chicago
Linguistic Society.

Karl Verner. 1876 [1967]. An Exception to Grimm’s Law. A Reader in nineteenth
Century Indo-European Historical Linguistics, ed. and translated by Winfred P.
Lehmann, 32-63. Bloomington, Indiana University Press.

Labov, William. 1972. On the Mechanism of Linguistic Change. Sociolinguistic
Patterns. 160-182. Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press.

------------. 1981. Resolving the Neogrammarin controversy. Language 57. 267-
302

------------. 1994 Principles of Linguistic Change Volume I: Internal Factors,
Part A Introduction and Methodology. 7-112. Language in Society. Peter
Trudgill (eds.) Blackwell.

Lightfoot David. 2003. Grammatical approaches to syntactic change. The
Handbook of Historical Linguistics 495-508. Brian D. Joseph and Richard D.
Janda (eds.) Blackwell.

Matisoff, James A. 1970. Glottal dissimilation and the Lahu high-rising tone:
a tonogenetic case study. 13-44. Journal of the American Oriental Society.
90.1.

------------. 1990. On megalocomparison  Language 66: 106-120.

Nichols, Johanna. 1985. How conifers became oaks in the Caucasus.
International Journal of American Linguistics  51.  523-526.

Ohala, John 1993. The phonetics of sound change. Historical Linguistics:
Problems and Perspectives, edited by Charles Jones, 237-278. London and New
York: Longman.

----------. 2003. Phonetics and historical phonology. 669-686. The Handbook of
Historical Linguistics 624-647. Brian D. Joseph and Richard D. Janda (eds.)
Blackwell.

Saussure, Ferdinand De. 1879. On the primitive system of vowels in the Indo-
European languages. A Reader in nineteenth Century Indo-European Historical
Linguistics, ed. and translated by Winfred P. Lehmann, 217-224. Bloomington,
Indiana University Press.

Thomason, Sarah Grey, and Terence Kaufman. 1988. Selection from Chapter 9:
Case Studies. Language contact, creolization and genetic linguistics, 214-263.
Berkeley-Los Angeles: University of California Press.

Traugott, Elisabeth. 1982. From Propositional to Textual and Expressive
Meanings: Some Semantic-Pragmatic Aspects of Gramaticalization. Perspectives
on Historical Lingiustics, eds. Winfred P. Lehman and Yakov Malkiel, 245-271.
Amsterdam Benjamins.

----------. 1989. On the rise of epistemic meanings in English: an example of
subjectification in semantic change. Language 65. 31-55.

----------. 2003. Constructions in grammaticalization. The Handbook of
Historical Linguistics 624-647. Brian D. Joseph and Richard D. Janda (eds.)
Blackwell.

Wang, William S.-Y. 1969. Competing sound changes as a cause of residue.
Language 45 9-25.

Weinreich, Uriel. William Labov, and Marvin Herzog 1968. Empirical foundations
for a theory of language change. In W. Lehmann an Y. Malkiel (eds.),
Directions for Historical Linguistics, Austin: University of Texas Press. 95-
188.