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Language Change: Progress or Decay? (Cambridge Approaches to Linguistics) - Hardcover

Aitchison, Jean

 
9780521411011: Language Change: Progress or Decay? (Cambridge Approaches to Linguistics)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0521411017 ISBN 13: 9780521411011
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1991

Synopsis

This book attempts to answer such questions by giving a lucid and up-to-date overview of language change.

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Review

'The book is a very good and readable introduction to the discipline of historical linguistics and covers a very large number of questions.' The Linguist

Book Description

This is a lucid and up-to-date overview of language change, considering both changes that occurred long ago and those currently in progress. This substantially revised third edition includes two new chapters on change of meaning and grammaticalization. New sections have also been added as well as over150 new references.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
1991
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521411017
ISBN 13 
9780521411011
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
2
Number of pages
270