Language Change
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Description
How and why do languages change? This new introduction offers a guide to the types of change at all levels of linguistic structure, as well as the mechanisms behind each type. Based on data from a variety of methods and a huge array of language families, it examines general patterns of change, bringing together recent findings on sound change, analogical change, grammaticalization, the creation and change of constructions, as well as lexical change. Emphasizing crosslinguistic patterns and going well beyond…
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Key features
- This new introduction offers a guide to all aspects of language change, with an emphasis on the role of cognition and language use
- Each chapter touches on a type of change and maps the directionality of that change so readers can grasp patterns more easily
- Within historical linguistics, non-European languages are often overlooked; in this book, examples are given from both European and non-European languages
About the book
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139096768
- Series Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
- Subjects English Language and Linguistics: General Interest,Grammar and Syntax,Historical Linguistics and Language Change,Language and Linguistics
- Format: Paperback
- Publication date: 03 August 2015
- ISBN: 9781107655829
- Dimensions (mm): 247 x 174 mm
- Weight: 0.62kg
- Contains: 2 b/w illus. 28 tables
- Page extent: 309 pages
- Availability: Available
- Format: Hardback
- Publication date: 04 August 2015
- ISBN: 9781107020160
- Dimensions (mm): 247 x 174 mm
- Weight: 0.76kg
- Contains: 2 b/w illus. 28 tables
- Page extent: 312 pages
- Availability: Available
- Format: Digital
- Publication date: 28 May 2018
- ISBN: 9781139096768
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