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Understanding Language Change - Softcover

McMahon, April M. S.

 
9780521446655: Understanding Language Change

Synopsis

This textbook analyses changes from every area of grammar and addresses recent developments in socio-historical linguistics.

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From the Back Cover

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.

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