Understanding Language Change
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- Author: April M. S. McMahon, University of Sheffield
- Date Published: March 1994
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521446655
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How and why do language changes begin; how and why do they spread; and how can they ultimately be explained? This new textbook sets out to answer these questions in a clear and helpful way which will be accessible to all students with an elementary knowledge of linguistics. In the first half of the book Dr McMahon analyses changes from every area of grammar. In the second she addresses recent developments in socio-historical linguistics, and looks at such topics as language contact, linguistic variation, pidgins and creoles, and language death. Throughout the discussion is illustrated by a wealth of examples from English and other languages. Understanding Language Change will be welcomed by students as a follow-up to such introductory books as Jean Aitchison's Language Change: Progress or Decay?, also published by Cambridge University Press.
Read more- Clear guide to historical linguistics
- Good follow-on to Aitchison's book, Language Change: Progress or Decay?
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- Date Published: March 1994
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521446655
- length: 376 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 21 mm
- weight: 0.55kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface and acknowledgements
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?
Bibliography
Index.
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