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Understanding Language Change

Name: Understanding Language Change
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Author: April M. S. McMahon
ISBN: 9780521446655

by April M. S. McMahon

ISBN13: 9780521446655
ISBN10: 0521446651
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 1994-04-29
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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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 that will be accessible to all students with only an elementary knowledge of linguistics. In the first half of the book Dr. McMahon analyzes changes from every area of grammar. In the second she 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.

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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