April Mcmahon, McMahon April M. S.

Understanding Language Change

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 only an elementary knowledge of linguistics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 609g
• ISBN-13: 9780521446655
• ISBN-10: 0521446651
• Artikelnr.: 21449575

Inhaltsangabe

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.