Understanding language change

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This textbook analyses changes from every area of grammar and addresses recent developments in socio-historical linguistics.

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Full title :Understanding language change / April M.S. McMahon.

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This textbook analyses changes from every area of grammar and addresses recent developments in socio-historical linguistics.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1994.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Language:eng
Publication Date:1994.

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Description:xi, 361 pages ; : 24 cm

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ISBN:0521441196, 9780521441193, 0521446651, 9780521446655
oclc:ocm28064885
LC Classification:P142
Dewey Decimal:417/.7

1. Introduction -- 2. Three views of sound change -- 3. Sound change 2: the implementation problem -- 4. Morphological change -- 5. Syntactic change 1: the Transparency Principle -- 6. Word order change and grammaticalisation: language change and general laws -- 7. Semantic and lexical change -- 8. Language contact -- 9. Linguistic variation -- 10. Pidgins and creoles -- 11. Language death -- 12. Linguistic evolution?

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