Understanding Language Change

Name: Understanding Language Change
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521446655
Price: 8300 KES
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ISBN: 9780521446655

by April M. S. McMahon

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 0521446651

ISBN-13 9780521446655

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Mar 17th, 1994

Print length 376 Pages

Weight 580 grams

Dimensions 22.70 x 15.90 x 2.70 cms

Product Classification: Historical & comparative linguistics Historical and comparative linguistics

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This new textbook will be accessible to all students with only an elementary knowledge of linguistics. In the first half of the book Dr McMahon analyses changes from 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.

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.

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