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Language change progress or decay?

This 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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  • "This book attempts to answer such questions by giving a lucid and up-to-date overview of language change."
  • "Why do people sometimes leave off the ends of words when they speak? Is it sloppiness, progress, or inevitable erosion? This book attempts to answer such questions by giving a lucid and up-to-date overview of language change. It discusses where our evidence about language change comes from, how and why changes happen, and how and why languages begin and end. It considers not only changes which occurred many years ago, but also those currently in progress. It does this within the framework of one central question - is language change a symptom of progress or decay? It concludes that language is neither progressing nor decaying, but that an understanding of the factors causing change is essential for anyone involved with language alteration. For this substantially revised and enlarged second edition Jean Aitchison has included details of recent research on a number of key topics, and also discusses data from a wider variety of languages: but the work remains non-technical in style and accessible to the reader with no previous knowledge of linguistics. -- Publisher description."
  • "An introduction to language change. This updated edition remains non-technical and accessible to readers with no previous knowledge of linguistics."
  • "This 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."@en
  • "How and why do languages change? Where does the evidence of language change come from? How do languages begin and end? This introduction to language change explores these and other questions, considering changes through time. The central theme of this book is whether language change is a symptom of progress or decay. This book will show you why it is neither, and that understanding the factors surrounding how language change occurs is essential to understanding why it happens. This updated edition remains non-technical and accessible to readers with no previous knowledge of linguistics--Résumé de l'éditeur."
  • "How and why do languages change? Where does the evidence of language change come from? How do languages begin and end? This introduction to language change explores these and other questions, considering changes through time. The central theme of this book is whether language change is a symptom of progress or decay. This book will show you why it is neither, and that understanding the factors surrounding how language change occurs is essential to understanding why it happens. This updated edition remains non-technical and accessible to readers with no previous knowledge of linguistics."
  • "This lucid and up-to-date overview of language change. It discusses where our evidence about language change comes from, how and why changes happen, and how languages begin and end. It considers both changes which occurred long ago, and those currently in progress. It does this within the framework of one central question - is language change a symptom of progress or decay? It concludes that language is neither progressing nor decaying, but that an understanding of the factors surrounding change is essential for anyone concerned about language alteration. For this substantially revised third edition, Jean Aitchison has included two new chapters on change of meaning and grammaticalization. -- Publisher description."

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  • "Livres électroniques"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Einführung"

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  • "Language change Progress or decay?"
  • "Language change"
  • "Language change : progress or decady?"
  • "Language Change: Progress or Decay?"
  • "Language change progress or decay?"
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  • "Language change : progress or decay"
  • "Language change : progress or decay ?"
  • "Language change : progress or decay?"
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  • "Language change : progress of decay?"@en
  • "Language Change : Progress or Decay?"@en
  • "Language Change : Progress or Decay?"
  • "Language change progress or decay ?"
  • "Language Change : progress or Decay?"
  • "Giati allazei ē glōssa : proodos ē parakmē"
  • "Language change: progress or decay?"

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