April M. S. McMahon

Understanding Language Change

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 762g
• ISBN-13: 9780521441193
• ISBN-10: 0521441196
• Artikelnr.: 26248790

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.