A handbook of historical linguistics.(The Handbook of Historical Linguistics)(Critical essay) From: Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the languagesciences | Date: March 1, 2007| Author: Ramat, Paolo | COPYRIGHT 2007 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Brian D. Joseph and Richard D. Janda, editors: The Handbook of Historical Linguistics. Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003.

1. Introduction

Only those who have had the experience of editing a collective volume, like the present reviewer, can fully appreciate the hard work done by Joseph and Janda (henceforth J&J). The idea of the Handbook was first conceived in 1994. J&J were able to convince well-known and authoritative linguists to c...